**ABOUT COLLAGE CARE: THE METHOD™**

Like Yoga...
for the Brain

Guided Exercise-Experiences (EEs) featuring collage-making and other ancient tools.

“No one can look after your inner life but you.”

— John O’Donohue

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OUR MISSION

The mission of Collage Care: The Method™ is to support people’s natural curiosity on vital topics to help them to know themselves, others, and the world fully. It is our intention for people to have ample opportunity, using this system, to live a fulfilled and hopeful life with increased knowledge, skills, and tools. We offer a thoughtful method to increase emotional and social literacy skills. This predictable, intentional, scaffolded educational model is designed to compliment and magnify a person’s natural strengths, as well as to amplify and expand them.

ABOUT COLLAGE CARE: THE METHOD™
LIKE YOGA…FOR THE BRAIN

Collage Care: The Method™ is a psycho-social educational model used by individuals and groups across the globe. The model demonstrates key ideas, presented in guided modules called Exercise-Experiences. In Collage Care: The Method™ an abundance of topics are articulated in a scaffolded, predictable format for ease of use. It utilizes collage-making and other ancient skills called Takeaway Action Tools.

A NOVEL AND EFFECTIVE WAY TO LEARN AND TRANSFORM

As you do the Exercise-Experiences in the guidebooks you are using the format, with the same careful approach, that others have experienced in person for years. Discovered and developed in the late 1980s, this novel and effective method uses predictable, patterned Exercise-Experiences to offer support, healing, encouragement, and transformation.

Collage Care: The Method™ produces these results with ease, predictability, and confidentiality. The short mini-discussions featured in the Exercise-Experiences, coupled with collage-making and other ancient tools, provide valuable knowledge that increases one’s emotional and social fluency.

Using the Exercise-Experiences offers greater perspective and keen insight on life. This can lead to remarkable change and transformation. You will be taking part in an insightful educational experience to gain information, wisdom, skills, tools, and awareness.

COLLAGE-MAKING TO DISCOVER INNER WISDOM

Collage Care: The Method™ uses the novel and fascinating tool of collage-making. The Exercise-Experiences provide a step-by-step exploration of important life topics by using guided collage-making recipes. As documented in the book Collage Care: Transforming Emotions and Life Experiences with Collage, collage-making has phenomenal qualities that produce remarkable awarenesses, perceptions, observations, and realizations.

The enjoyable process of collage-making provides a way to consider vital life topics beyond what simply talking, seeing, listening, reading, or writing can offer. There are over 140 ways collage-making does this. These nuggets of empirical evidence are called GEMs. They were first documented and featured in the book Collage Care: Transforming Emotions and Life Experiences with Collage.

NOT MAKING FINE ART —
SIMPLY USING A CREATIVE, ILLUMINATING, SOMATIC TOOL

In Collage Care: The Method™ one is not making fine art. It does not require one to be “artistic” to take part. Collage Care: The Method™ simply uses collage-making — a child-like, flexible, and playful method with no right or wrong actions or answers — to make notes about what one is learning. It is a simple yet deeply sophisticated way to process and comprehend complex ideas.

By using the “premade” images found in magazines or online, collage-making eliminates any of the frustration of other mediums in being creative and expressive. You can find just the right symbolic images to convey your ideas and learnings through the instrument of collage-making.

By using one’s own hands while collage-making, one is able to explore complex ideas while at the same time experiencing a somatic tool that engages the mind, body, and nervous system. It is fun, creative, relaxing, and illuminating!

ORGANIZED IN MODULAR EXERCISE-EXPERIENCES (EEs)

The Exercise-Experiences (EEs) are offered in a modular format. By definition, a module is a single bit of information designed to teach skills or offer knowledge. The books contain over eighty (80) unique, modular EEs. The topics in the Exercise-Experiences are organized in a specific and intentional format that focuses on assurance, comfort, and ease. The predictable format offers one the comfort to fully explore, experience, and utilize new ideas.

This methodology uses many known learning styles that complement human development. The learning styles also optimize lifelong transformation and intra- and interpersonal growth. Organized modules make it easier to locate ideas so you can “Think, Choose, and Use” what is best for you. Each module contains vital materials, packed with complex information presented in a simple manner, to offer quick access to valuable ideas. Nearly everyone would benefit from examining all of this information, and readers will benefit from taking part in all the EEs.

This methodology uses many known learning styles that complement human development. These learning styles also optimize lifelong transformation and intra- and interpersonal growth.

Organized modules make it easier to locate topics so you can “Think, Choose, and Use” what is best for you. Each module contains vital materials, packed with complex information presented in a simple manner, to offer quick access to valuable ideas. Readers will benefit from taking part in all the EEs.

“THINK, CHOOSE, AND USE” WHAT WORKS FOR YOU

Using Collage Care: The Method™ you are invited to build your own learning menu. Readers can design their own course of self-study to enhance their skills and expand their individual growth potential. The guidebooks contain an abundance of topics that readers can select to meet their own unique needs.

Using the EEs in the books is the equivalent of making a collage, allowing the reader to pick and choose what topics they are interested in taking part in. Each individual Exercise-Experience is like a singular element of a collage. The end result of using the many Exercise-Experiences is like a finished collage. This can be meaningful to the reader on multiple levels.

FLEXIBILE, ACCESSIBLE, PERTINENT TOPICS

Laurie Kanyer, *This is What We Believe*

The guidebooks contain an abundance of self-guided collage-making Exercise-Experiences (EEs) on a wide variety of topics. The topics help one to know themselves and others better. The EEs are translated and transcribed from in-person classroom and counseling work. For decades they were used with students and clients. Now you can have a similar experience of your very own.

LESSONS FOR THE JOURNEY OF LIFE

Liberty Blake, *Speyeria nokomis nokomis*

Collage Care: The Method™ was originally developed in an educational setting — a child psychology course. It was further expanded to a program for adults who were experiencing poverty. It therefore has a tone of “lessons for the journey of life”. It features mini lessons on pertinent topics and concepts.

Collage Care: The Method™ uses collage-making and other wise and ancient tools to deepen one’s understanding of the topics. These mechanisms aim to offer information for you to then experience and use to transform your life.

BOTH PROCESS AND PRODUCT ORIENTED

The EEs are both process and product-oriented, for the purpose of helping you to investigate, research, and transform your emotions, feelings, and thoughts. They will also further assist as you experience challenging “somethings” and life experiences.

This process is designed to offer informational, experiential insights while also creating a product — a finished collage — to document what you know and learned. Once you complete an Exercise-Experience you will have made a tangible, physical collage on each topic.

You will be reading, cutting, pasting, arranging, creating, changing, learning, and transforming. The resulting end-product is a confidential, personal collage that holds your learnings, skills, tools, awareness, and insights.

Using Collage Care: The Method™ one can explore big ideas in a compact, easily accessible format. Collage Care: The Method™ offers a systematic way to “experience” and explore a wide array of topics and theories in a predictable and engaging manner.

Collage Care: The Method™ is a system, or model, for you to learn, enjoy, and use. It is like yoga for the brain. It uses a set process, similar to the predictable yoga poses arranged by an instructor for a class.

USES THE BRAIN, BODY, AND NERVOUS SYSTEM
TO REGULATE AND PACE ONE’S SYSTEM

Collage Care: The Method™ engages the many parts of the brain and attunes this engagement to one’s numerous learning styles. Using collage-making and other ancient tools, Collage Care: The Method™ uses a natural way for the body and nervous system to release tension. All the senses are engaged in Collage Care: The Method™ which enhances one’s comprehension of key life topics. While one is considering interesting ideas featured in the Exercise-Experiences, one is also pacing, modulating, and regulating the system of the mind and body.

EMPLOYS NEUROPLASTICITY TO IMPROVE ONE’S INNER LIFE

Celia Crane, *Every Cloud has a Silver Lining (for a Clever Tailor)*

Humans have approximately 70,000 thoughts per day. These thoughts shape one’s inner life. A constant conversation is taking place automatically, like leaves growing and falling from a tree. The quality of one’s thoughts relies on a variety of sources. The most brilliant bit is that they can shift, change, improve, and transform.

This is called Neuroplasticity. It refers to the fact that the brain can change, like a garden bed tilled and replanted.

Collage Care: The Method™ is a tool that can support and use the natural neuroplastic potential of the brain. By investing in the use of the EEs people have an opportunity to consider, evaluate, recalibrate, and replant the garden of their inner life. Through the use of the EEs one may be able to enhance and improve the quality of one’s life.

GOALS AND HOPES

Collage Care: The Method™ offers you an opportunity to develop a special course or path of learning designed by you, for you. The aim is to support natural curiosity about yourself, others, and the world. The overarching goals and hopes of this material are for one to learn new ideas, build skills, gain tools, have fun, express yourself, and acquire knowledge that fits best for you.

The topics featured in Collage Care: The Method™ revolve around emotions, feelings, thoughts, resolving challenges, improving communication, getting to know one’s self and others better, and considering life experiences. You are invited to “Think, Choose, and Use” what fits best for you and your dreams.

The goal is to transform one’s understanding, gain helpful tips, get to know one’s True Self better, and acquire tools to benefit one’s Future Self. The hope in using these collage-making Exercise-Experiences is to find balance in your life.

You will most likely be able to improve your relationships, expand your skills, gain tools, and discover options about how you react to and manage life’s “somethings”. The Exercise-Experiences are designed to fortify skills you already have and to increase them with additional information and tools. The entire system is designed for people to “Think, Choose, and Use” what fits best for them.

STRENGTHS-BASED — SUPPORTS LIFELONG LEARNING

Julie Liger-Belair, Turtle (Precarious Balance)

Collage Care: The Method™ is a strength-based method. We believe people have an abundance of personal strengths they put to use constantly. Collage Care: The Method™ is not a self-improvement program, but a self-enhancement model that assumes people are curious. It assumes people have the capacity to be lifelong learners. The topics offered in Collage Care: The Method™ are not offered in any formal educational setting, and people deserve a thoughtful way to acquire this information. The books featured herein provide such a way.

ABOUT COLLAGE CARE: THE METHOD™