The Gate of Holding- Creating your Hope Journal

About this course

In a world that often feels fragmented, how do we find our way back to a sense of wholeness and joy? This course is an invitation to anyone who feels a need for renewed hope and a spark of vitality in their lives.

Born from the profound healing process documented in the book Gates of Hope, this journey uses the SoulPages® method to help you navigate from “the before” to “the after.” Whether you are facing personal challenges or simply seeking a deeper connection to your creative spirit, these seven gates will lead you toward resilience, meaning, and a “Visual Tribe” of support.

What will you get?

In our first meeting, we will enter The Gate of Holding and begin by creating the physical and emotional container for our journey: the cover of your visual journal.

We will wrap and collage the journal with pieces of fabric, thread, and simple handwork, so that it becomes more than a notebook. It becomes a personal vessel, a safe and intimate place that can hold images, colors, fragments, memories, questions, and hope.

In the book, this first gate is described as one of the most emotional moments at the beginning of a SoulPages journey. The journal becomes a kind of holding space, a place where the soul can slowly gather itself, especially in times of uncertainty. Fabric is important here because it invites touch and warmth. It softens the journal and helps it feel close to the body, almost like something we can carry, protect, and return to.

We are not trying to make something perfect. We are creating a place that says, gently: everything that wants to appear here is welcome.

During the session, we will create a fabric collage on the outside of the journal, add a flap, and explore simple ways to close and personalize it.

If you do not have a handmade journal, a store-bought notebook or visual journal is completely fine. What matters is not the object itself, but the relationship you begin to build with it.