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Touch Drawing Facilitators
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| Since discovering Touch Drawing, Deborah Koff-Chapin has wanted to make it available to as many people as possible. With just some basic materials and a few technical directions, Touch Drawing can become a window to the soul for anyone willing to explore the Self.
The Center for Touch Drawing recognizes its role in ensuring that as people introduce Touch Drawing within their own contexts, they do so in a manner allowing the fullest extent of its power. If you intend to teach Touch Drawing or if you use it in a psychological environment, you owe it to yourself, your participants and The Center to offer the best experience you can.
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Facilitators highlighted here:
Mukti Khanna
Ursi Barshi
Pete Peterson
Carol Kennedy
Pam Bolton
Frederick Whitmeyer
Jan Price
Lorri Baird
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The Center is prepared to assist you in a variety of ways in preparing your task, be it a small gathering of friends or a public workshop. The Touch Drawing Facilitator Workbook provides essential information and resources to support you. Its purchase registers you with The Center, and you will special receive reports and updates to the workbook. Connect with the growing network of practitioners on the Touch Drawing Online Community. Join with the heart of the touch Drawing community at the Annual Touch Drawing Gathering. Deborah is also available for consultation by appointment.
When you share Touch Drawing with others, please acknowledge the source, and give contact information for The Center. Then let us know how it is going by reporting to the Center periodically.
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Mukti Khanna (CO): I team taught an Honors Course in Eco-Literacy in which TD was one of the languages used to explore the interconnectedness between psyche, earth and environment. Laura Sewell, a leading ecopsychologist, gave a guest lecture during which some students were drawing. Laura found it fascinating to see what she was communicating emerge as images-TD seems to get at what an idea is. I also did some pro bono work for the Southwest Center for Independence, a nonprofit center for independent living for people with disabilities. One man with cerebral palsy drew while laying on his stomach. It was very moving to see how involved they all were and the pride they took in sharing their work.
Ursi Barshi (CO): I invited four of my best friends to share the experience of TD. In my "invocation" I called upon the "Spirit of Creativity" and not, like Deborah, the Spirit of TD. It felt more authentic for me and I think I was still true to her work. I asked participants to think of an offering to that Spirit and to ask for something they would like to receive. It established a kind of a dialogue with that source.
Pete Peterson (SD): Kathleen O'Daniel introduced me to the idea of combining TD with walking the Labyrinth. After presenting our first workshop, my partner and I are basking in the warmth of an incredible experience. We had 8 people from all walks of life, including counselors, actors, nurses, students and teachers. During the morning session we built a Labyrinth out of masking tape. After lunch we showed the first part of Deborah's video, explained the process of TD, and then let them go. After an hour, they put down their paints and walked the Labyrinth. Back to TD, again the Labyrinth and a final TD. Most of them lost their sense of time and were disappointed when they needed to stop. They were all so moved by the whole experience.
A handful more: Sarah Lee Blum (WA) led a workshop to introduce her private therapy clients to TD. She is now using the process whenever appropriate within her private practice. Carol Kennedy (AZ) is introducing TD to a dream group composed of elementary students studying the rainforest, drawing their dreams of rainforest animals. Pam Bolton (CA) is using TD in combination with movement, toning and visualization in both private practice and group workshops and to help participants integrate a wilderness vision quest. Frederick Whitmeyer (NC) has been integrating TD into his Authentic Movement classes as well as his Artist Way support group. Jan Price (OH) has been using TD in a year-long training which involves deep work in the "mythic story fields." Lorri Baird (WA) writes of personal TD sessions: As I progressed through the cycle of drawing I inevitably met my shadow side and this shadow side grew larger as I continued to draw. This was a little frightening at times but, at the same time, I was being offered this wonderful gift of reunification and wholeness.
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