SoulCollage and Soul Journaling: Taos Retreat 2023
November 30 - December 4, 2023
$500.00 deposit will hold your space. SOLD OUT! Join the waitlist.
See below at the *** for full pricing.
Join Kat Kirby and Deborah Milosevich at the iconic Mabel Dodge Luhan House for 5 days, 4 nights of creative exploration and enjoyment. Leave the world behind as you step into this magical world of peace, inspiration, camaraderie, and nurturing. https://www.mabeldodgeluhan.com/
We’ll begin our retreat with an evening wine and cheese reception to introduce ourselves to one another and settle into the ambiance of the Mabel Dodge Luhan House.
We’ll gather in our wonderful adobe studio for creative sessions and exploration of your personal soul journey.
In the mornings and afternoons, we’ll spend time in the spacious, light-filled studio, creating a journal about you, making SoulCollage® cards, and journaling with words and images that describe what makes you the unique person that you are.
Evenings can be spent wandering into town, reading, creating in the studio, or relaxing in front of the fireplace at the main house.
Our first session will involve constructing a poem all about you, inspired by memories from your childhood. We will create a poem that is a beautiful and true picture of our selves. From there we will begin to add layers of complexity and insight through SoulCollage and the journal we will be making.
SoulCollage is a magical and often profound process of creating a unique and personal deck of oracle cards, developed by the late Seena Frost. With this process, using our intuition, we make a selection of images, without knowing why, and then using just scissors and a glue stick, we create soulful cards and gradually build our SoulCollage decks. This becomes our personal story, describing in images who we are, the roles we play, our supporters and challengers, and the archetypes that guide us.
Our handmade journals will be created using materials such as large manila envelopes, mixed media, scrapbook, and copy paper. Kat will teach you how to construct this book and make it your own. With pockets and secret tuck spots, this Treasure Book will house some of the newly created cards as well as our writings, dreams, insights, and poems.
During our time together at the retreat we will be considering the following questions:
• When was the last time you truly let your intuition guide and inform you?
• How do you express yourself with images and words?
• What memories do you carry with you?
• How have your past experiences shaped your life ?
• What makes you YOU? ?
Deborah and Kat will encourage and inspire you through a variety of prompts, poems, and personal stories to set the stage for your own creative expression.
Mabel Dodge Luhan House,
“Rich in history, authentic in architecture, The Mabel Dodge Luhan House has been a center of Taos arts and education for nearly 100 years. Join us and experience the rustic and relaxing ambience that makes the Mabel Dodge Luhan house an artistic salon of the Southwest.”
Just imagine: waking up to a gorgeous sunrise, nestled in the pinon -covered pines of the Sangre de Christo mountains.
The chef will delight you with delicious breakfasts, lunches, and some dinners served each day, without you having to lift a finger to shop or cook.
Your Retreat Guides:
Deborah Milosevich
Lubbock, Texas
I have been a professional artist for more than forty years. My work has been shown in galleries in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. I served as the director for the Lubbock Arts Alliance for several years and taught Art Appreciation at Texas Tech University for 18 years.
Over the past 20 years, I have led various art workshops in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Some of the workshops included painting, shrine building, mixed media construction and spirit dolls. I discovered SoulCollage several years ago and became a facilitator. I have gotten so much out of my own SoulCollage practice that I wanted to share it with others and have led several workshops that focused on just that. I thoroughly enjoy being with workshop participants as they discover new levels of creativity and personal insight.
Kat Kirby
Prescott, AZ
Kat Kirby was born and raised in New Jersey, into a family that valued art, music, theater, and all things creative. She learned at an early age that creativity and self-expression were keys to a fulfilling life.
Since the early 1970s, Kat has been a believer in the healing power of the arts and creative self-expression. After retiring from a 40-year career as an Expressive Arts Therapist, her passions include teaching a variety of workshops such as creating art journals, mosaics, SoulCollage®, handmade books, Mixed Media arts, watercolors and doodles, and more. She has led art retreats around the world, including France, Portugal, the Caribbean, as well as Sedona, Carefree, AZ, and California. Kat enjoys exploring and experimenting with art materials, and loves encouraging her students and retreatants to make friends with their inner kindergartener.
When she teaches, whether it be virtual or in person, her two rules are:
1) You can’t be wrong, and
2) Have fun!
What's included:
Your single or shared room
Breakfasts, lunches, and 3 dinners in the dining room
Coffee, tea, snacks throughout the day
Instruction from two seasoned art retreat facilitators
Some supplies and materials
What's not included:
Some supplies and materials (a list will be sent to you upon registration)
Your transportation to and from the Mabel Dodge Luhan House
One dinner in town
Gratuities and tips
Items you wish to purchase
***Your investment in your creative well being:
Private room: $2339.00
Shared room: $2087.00
Commuter: $1420.00
Your $500.00 non-refundable deposit will secure your place for this retreat. Your second payment of $1000.00 is due on or before July 30th. Your balance is due on or before September 30th. We will send reminders to you. The deposit and future payments can be paid via PayPal or Stripe with an added fee of 3%. No fees if paying by check or Zelle.
If paying by check, please make it out to me and send it to:
Kat Kirby, 3251 Burro Drive, Prescott, AZ 86305
Or transfer via Zelle to me at kat4clay@gmail.com
If you would like to pay it all by check, please email me at kat4clay@gmail.com. Thank you!
TO Join the Waitlist, email Kat at kat4clay@gmail.com
Rooms will be assigned on a first come, first served basis. However, all the rooms at Mabel’s are good ones.
Cancellations and Refunds:
If you need to cancel your registration for any reason, please let us know as soon as possible by sending an email to Deborah or Kat.
If you or we can fill your spot, we will refund your payment, minus the $500 nonrefundable deposit. If we are unable to fill your space, we will not be able to issue you a refund.
If the retreat has to be cancelled for reasons outside of our control, you will receive a refund, minus your deposit.
If we have to cancel, which we have never done, you will receive a full refund.
We highly recommend getting trip insurance. Kat uses Allianz:
Covid Policy: We are continuing to monitor the situation as Covid evolves. We will modify our policies and post here, as and when we feel it becomes necessary.
