Talking to the Animals with Mattie Coll

Where/When: In person and online, through ZOOM (Meeting ID: 865 1815 1952, Passcode: 142841) and in person at Unity of Richmond, 800 Blanton Avenue, Richmond, VA 23221, on Saturday, October 17, 2026, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon, with Potluck Lunch at conclusion. This is a free event. Your donations are much appreciated.

Program Title: Talking to the Animals Mattie, who is well known to many of our members from her work with their pets or her presentations at SpiritMindBody and other venues, has made animal communication and healing work her full-time endeavor since she retired from teaching nearly 10 years ago. Her talk will offer both profound insights about the breadth and depth of communications which are possible between humans and animals of almost every genus, practical guidance about how to become more effective at doing so, and experiential exercises showing how to put the guidance into practice. Whether we are dealing with dolphins who have encephalization quotients (“EQs”) almost equal to humans, or white spotted puffer fish who construct complex mandala-like seafloor designs to attract a mate, or tool-using crows who use sticks to poke, drop nuts into roadways so our tires will crack them open and remember human faces as well as we do, or even common house flies and roaches who flee to avoid being swatted or stomped on, consciousness reigns supreme across all forms of life, not just in humans, but in all manifestations of the plant and animal kingdom.

Mattie’s talk will help us connect at deeper and more meaningful levels with those nonhuman companions who bring such joy to our lives and whom we love the most.
Learn to connect directly with your animal companion and find out what they are thinking and feeling with Mattie Coll. She connects with pets in spirit form as well and sees this as a skill like mediumship. Durning her presentation She will tell the basics of animal communication as well as take questions from the audience
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About our presenter: Mattie Coll has been a professional Animal Communicator since her retirement from teaching in 2018. She has studied the work of Penelope Smith and worked with Patty Summers, a local communicator, for almost a decade. A veteran meditator of over 20 years and current meditation teacher, she also connects with people and animals who have passed into the afterlife. She is doing a workshop at the Aquarian Bookstore in October about Animals in the Afterlife. Mattie is an avid student of metaphysics and is currently studying Pranic Healing and co-leads two meditation groups. As a retired English Instructor, both teaching and writing are important to her, and she is the author of a book of poetry, The Journey, and a personal memoir, Reclaiming Southside. She is working on a follow-up to her Reclaiming Southside memoir. Mattie can be reached on Instagram @collmattie.

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