Reviews and Testimonials

  "Suzanne is a consummate teacher who integrates into each session a blend of verbal explanations, visual demonstrations, and physical movement to refresh, relax, and open us to our inner vision and voice. She offers intriguing and inspiring prompts and activities to access soul wisdom. She invites us to share our creations and insights with other participants, but honors each individual’s process and privacy. She also suggests practical tips and resources for finding images, organizing and storing cards, experimenting with art tools.

  Aways encouraging, respectful, and informative, Suzanne creates an online learning environment that is playful and profound."

  — C.S.

  "Through serendipity and good fortune, I found Suzanne's website online, and emailed her immediately, curious to explore if she would be available to lead a workshop in SoulCollage® for the community of 90+ psychotherapists I support at Grateful Heart Holistic Therapy Center.

  After Suzanne finished not only one but three SoulCollage® workshops for Grateful Heart, I asked a close friend if she would like to join me in meeting with Suzanne once a month as part of an ongoing SoulCollage® practice. It was one of the best decisions I have made.

  Enriched by poetry, Suzanne's reflections about the SoulCollage® process, conversations about our creative and spiritual practices and the beautiful and rich tradition of SoulCollage® itself, we have enjoyed the comfort and inspiration of an intimate journey together. Whether she is sharing about Seena Frost or her experience engaging in or teaching SoulCollage®, demonstrating one of SoulCollage's many practical techniques, reading a poem as food for thought, sharing an insight, or facilitating one of the many conversations we have had about our inner lives, the experience has been rich, generative, uplifting and fortifying.
 Suzanne has a natural facility with the creative process, and a gentle and inviting manner. I cannot recommend her highly enough."

  — R.R.

  “I love your classes because they give me time, space & permission to actually create… otherwise, life keeps getting in the way…”

  — S.C.

  “I consider myself to be somewhat artistically challenged so I didn’t expect to really enjoy SoulCollage®, but I was curious and figured anything Suzanne does is worth checking out. Well, I was right about Suzanne, but wrong about SoulCollage®. Suzanne pays exquisite attention to every little detail to make her studio and the experience comfortable, easy and relaxing, and she provides everything you could possibly need for success. Her gentle, loving, thoughtful, non-judgmental approach set the perfect tone and allowed my creativity to flow freely and my inner critic to “take a walk” (her suggestion). The result was a lovely, thoroughly enjoyable, uplifting experience, and one I’d love to repeat. Suzanne is a gem!”

  — B.D.

  “I have already raved about the SoulCollage® experience in Suzanne Oliwa’s beautiful studio to many friends so am pleased to testify about it on her website. Among the benefits: taking a break from mental and verbal chatter; the tactile pleasure of sorting, cutting and arranging the images; using the creative process to soothe oneself; taking home an amalgam of symbols on a card that will continue to stimulate and guide my growth and healing.”

  — K.F.

  “You supplied everything we needed and a wonderful and varied selection of images to choose from. We all agreed it was a great experience.”

  — C.T.

  “It is amazing how having that prioritized, and particularly warm and welcoming time at Suzanne’s studio, opens one up to insights onward. It reminds me that I need to make time for reflection and creative expression because it will have ongoing residual benefits.”

  — S.D.

  “The SoulCollage® process is another way “in” that is not from the head–or even the body–that is both permanent and impermanent. The product was a surprise that provoked wonder and curiosity. It also indulged my love of cutting things out with sharp scissors, probably related to my early paper doll experiences of childhood. It felt good to feel so “creative” in just a couple of hours. I am still thinking about my card.”

  — K.H.