A Collage Workshop
Led by Sally Churgel and Sheridan Gold
While the world seems to be unraveling, one way to keep whole and as sane as possible is to be conscious and intentional about how we cope with our inner world and the choices we make. When the choices don’t work as planned, when things seem to fall apart despite your best intentions, what is the way that you pick yourself up and keep forging ahead? How do you reweave your experiences with new behaviors, choices, and viewpoint?
We invite you to join us for an evening of creativity and imagery to help you illuminate these two questions and possible have an answer emerge.
In a gentle, guided, and artful way, you will make two collage cards; one will invite you to express what is currently unraveling in your life due to choice or circumstance.
The second collage will support you to create a fresh image with the unraveled parts you want to retain but in a new configuration. This method of self-discovery, if done consciously, supports you to nourish your soul in a surprising and elegant manner.
You will need on hand:
* A few magazines, old calendars, books you are willing to cut up.
* Print images: You may want to go online and print out images that seem to suggest those themes. The images will be based on the two cards we described in the description. Don’t worry if you aren’t clear. Images that call out to you “for some reason,” may be perfect.
* A 5 x 8 inch card or thick paper
* Scissors
* Glue stick or glue
* Journal or notepaper
* Pen
Sheridan Gold, musician and artist, has been a member of Congregation Ner Shalom for 10 years. As a collage artist, she loves helping people uncover their hidden selves. As a musician, she enjoys playing healing music to help people go deep into their healing process. Sheridan is thrilled to be teaching this class with Sally to prepare for the High Holy Days
Sally Churgel is a Ner Shalom High Holy Day leader, poet laureate from 2009-2019, past president and member for 25 years. Sally is a healer/intuitive (her business is Call to Joy), transformation guide and Argentine tango dancer. She has been making collages for 25 years and loves working with Sheridan to bring this transformative process to the Ner Shalom community.