Colleen Foye Bollen’s heart work is finding connections between health, spirituality and creativity. When creating workshops, she draws on her training as a healing arts practitioner, a meditator and a dream worker to tap into the specific needs of each group. Colleen’s speaking engagements can run from one hour classes to weekend workshops.

        You don’t have to follow Alice down the rabbit hole to find the place where creativity and spirituality meet. Awaken your creative spirit with a gratitude collage, exploratory writing and spirited play. This workshop brings together music, movement, meditation and hands-on exercises to stimulate energy levels and tap into the spiritual side of creativity.

        Have you been diagnosed with a condition, disease or syndrome? Instead of surrendering your power and becoming your label, learn practices that will enrich your physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being. These gentle methods require little physical exertion, yet offer dynamic results. Please wear comfortable clothes, bring scissors for collaging and a lunch or afternoon snack.

     Your health is in your hands – literally. Learn an ancient healing art that taps into your body’s innate wisdom. These techniques are quick to learn and implement, yet pack high-powered therapeutic energy. Benefits include increased energy, pain relief and simple solutions for everyday ailments. The only tools required are your fingers and toes. Come away with a personal daily maintenance routine custom designed to meet you needs.

        Discover the power of intentional dreamwork. Learn know to remember your dreams and use them to gain insights into your waking life. Throughout the ages people are used their dreams to solve personal problems, tap into their creativity and heighten their intuition. Bring a notebook and a dream to share.

        Become a word-explorer. Let music, movement, and writing exercises be your passport to a positive writing experience. This workshop incorporates simple techniques to aid relaxation, focus attention, and stimulate energy levels. Use this non-threatening environment to open yourself to spiritually expressing yourself and tapping into your writing guide.

        Does an experience have to be religious to be spiritual? Not in this class. Join us as we write our life stories from a spiritual perspective. All are welcome. The only requirement is a willingness to write and share your life stories. This six-week class is based on Dan Wakefield’s book, The Story of Your Life: Writing A Spiritual Autobiography.

        Get published! Short articles, sidebars and fillers can open the door to new opportunities. Discover secrets to writing short pieces and ways to transform piles of research into focused articles. Learn how to develop relationships with new editors and use your track record to get contracts for feature articles.

Dreamwork for Writers

        Turn piles of research into salable pieces using a powerful, organizational tool called “framing”. Hands-on exercises demonstrate how this free flowing, whole brain approach can enhance articles, stories, novels, goal setting, and creative thinking.

        Using hands-on exercises learn how to cut away nonessential words, create fresh images and transform ideas into solid articles.

       Become a word-explorer. Let music, movement, and writing exercises be your passport to a positive writing experience. Learn how to use these tools to break through writer’s block, to stimulate your imagination, and to enrich your writing life.

       Writing is an isolating pursuit. After spending hours closeted away with a pen and paper or a computer, feedback is the next vital step in crafting a publishable manuscript. A writing critique group can offer a supportive environment that encourages participants to share their labors of love. Any writer who is serious about his or her work and earnestly wants to make it better can benefit from a critique group.

        Anyone who reads how-to writing magazines and books knows the importance of “targeting article” ideas to the right magazines. But what does that mean? This hands-on workshop will show you nine ways to determine which magazines will be most receptive to your articles. With these tools you'll gain insights into each publication’s voice, their intended readership and the kind of article they are most likely to publish.

        Do you have wonderful stories, ideas or images floating around in your head, longing to find their home on the written page? Are they lost somewhere between your inspiration and the action of writing them down? What obstacles keep you from giving form to your creative spirit? Discover ways to awaken your creative energies and outfox patterns of self-sabotage.