Articles

Creating with JourneyCircles™ – Video Series

By Cat Caracelo | September 2, 2017

  Circle Collage + JourneyCircles™ Process   Creating on Compass Cards with JourneyCircles™   Connected Stories + Nested Circles with JourneyCircles™      How JourneyCircles™ was Inspired

What Is Creative Depth Coaching?

By Cat Caracelo | August 30, 2017

Creative Depth Coaching is a hybrid form of coaching that combines traditional and narrative coaching with healing modalities, transformative art and depth process to engage wisdom, self-discovery and healing. Deep thinkers, healers and seekers often yearn for this type of inner exploration to fuel their purpose and passion. The process has been defined and developed…

What is Living Language?

By Cat Caracelo | August 24, 2017

lan·guage NOUN the method of human communication, either spoken or written any nonverbal method of expression or communication the system of communication used by a particular community a system of symbols Living language in the context of art making, art as process, transformative process and expressive arts, is information articulated through means other than words, in ways that enliven…

Working with Shadow Stories

By Cat Caracelo | May 15, 2017

From Cat Caracelo, Founder of JourneyPath Institute I have a long history working with shadow. Attuning to and honoring the potency of facing fears, I have worked with the depth and delight of remembering that which is mine, that had been dismissed, disowned and dismembered. Shadow sounds scary, and it can feel intense and heavy.…

Tender Remembering

By Cat Caracelo | May 15, 2017

This week brought love and loss, a wind of tender remembering has been flowing into my space.A forty year friend has been in her last days. I was not able to see her and yet for many weeks I have been holding vigil, sending love, offering ease in transition and weaving my memories of her into the…

Guiding Process + Redefining Growth

By Cat Caracelo | February 4, 2017

What is Awakening? Who will you be as your healing journey evolves? Who will you be when your challenges are illuminated? Who will you be as personal blocks are transforming? Who will you be when wounded places are no longer guiding your choices? These are questions that must be explored through active connection, building relationship, developing…

Emotional Literacy and the FEEL Method

By Cat Caracelo | December 22, 2016

A key component of the work of a Creative Depth Coach is to support clients to make sense of their emotions through their growing emotional literacy, well expressed emotional agility and emotional sovereignty. As an individual you will work on this within your own life experience, exploring and identifying when emotion comes to the surface, how it behaves,…

Accessing the Imaginal Realm

By Cat Caracelo | December 1, 2016

One of the roles of the Creative Depth Coach is to find defined ways to guide and support your clients as they access their imaginal realm. As they discover how to be in relationship with imagery and find inner resources that will help to navigate their own healing, the Depth Coach points them toward possibility…

Why Coaching Needs Expressive Arts

By Cat Caracelo | November 27, 2016

Through the work of the JourneyCircles™ Institute I am committed to integrating expressive arts and creative process into the work of coaching and facilitation.  Based on my experience working with thousands of clients and students for over fifteen years here are four key reasons that expressive arts are absolutely essential to coaching and developing our work in…

The Art of Listening

By Cat Caracelo | November 2, 2016

Listening is at the foundation of our work. It is an active and embodied response, a sensory pathway to one’s own inner and imaginal landscape. We must begin the practice of deep listening within our own life and through art-making. Art as process allows one to experience a numinous place, outside of time and space.…