March 13 - 15 and April 18 - 19 in San Francisco, California
Two credit Touch Drawing class at California Institute of Integral Studies
This intensive two-weekend course is oriented to Masters Degree students in Expressive Art Therapy and other students of Somatic and Transpersonal Psychology. Open to audit by special interview and arrangement.
Contact: Jack Weller 415-431-7972 or jweller@ciis.edu
Friday, May 22 in Seattle, Washington
Touch Drawing demonstration, slide talk and experience of SoulCards at East West Bookshop
6500 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115
Deborah will create a sacred space through live music and images, and share how Touch Drawing emerged and developed. Then she will guide you into a deep-gazing experience of the images in SoulCards, and support you to find your own meaning in what you see.
Time: 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Cost: $5 Ticket cost can be used towards the purchase of SoulCards or Touch Drawing educational media.
Contact: 206-523-3726 or 800-587-6002 events@eastwestbookshop.com
Saturday, May 23 in Seattle, Washington
Half-day Touch Drawing Workshop Sponsored by East West Bookshop
6500 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115
As spring blossoms, allow your soul to blossom into being through Touch Drawing. Other Expressive Arts processes such as writing and movement will be incorporated to enhance the experience.
Time 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Cost $48 includes materials fee
Contact: 206-523-3726 or 800-587-6002 events@eastwestbookshop.com
July 10 -12 at Omega Institute in Rhinebeck New York
Drawing Out Your Soul - A weekend of Touch Drawing at Omega Institute
Celebrate the summer with creative expression in this great holistic camp. Touch Drawing will be combined with other art forms such a simple movement, sound and journal writing to integrate the experience. We will dive deep into our souls and emerge in joyful celebration.
Contact: 800-944-1001 registration@eomega.org
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July 26 - 31 on Whidbey Island, Washington
13th Annual Touch Drawing Gathering
This six-day intensive is an immersion into the heart of Touch Drawing, the community of practitioners and your own creative depths. The Gathering is highly recommended for anyone interested in facilitating Touch Drawing. If you are a therapist, workshop leader, artist, educator, intuitive, coach, spiritual director or health practitioner, you will be supported to integrate Touch Drawing into your work in your own unique way. This is the event that people travel to from all over the US, Canada and the world.
Location: Chinook Retreat Center on 100 acres of forest and gardens
Contact: (800) 989-6334 center@touchdrawing.com
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August 12-15 at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts
International Expressive Art Therapy Association Conference
The International Expressive Arts Therapy Association invites you to be part of an exciting and inspiring international gathering as expressive arts therapists, educators, consultants, artists and activists, and innovators of expressive arts modalities from around the world converge to celebrate the journey of Expressive Arts and Social Action: Peace-ing our World Together.
Deborah will offer a three-hour workshop entitled New Song Long Dance: Creative Cauldron of Individual and Community on Friday, August 13 from 1:30 to 5:00.
The “New Song Long Dance” is a multimodal expressive arts structure that offers participants an empowering experience of being part of a generative social organism. The Long Dance has a unique mandalic structure that contains a great range of expressive modalities in a manner that supports the unified field of the community. In this workshop, participants will be introduced to the elements of the New Song Long Dance and then be guided into an experience of immersion in the Dance. Participants will receive written support materials and be empowered to incorporate the process into their particular work or community setting. This will be Deborah's first public introduction to this She stuusacred expressive arts form that she has been practicing since 1977. She worked deeply with the originators of the form, Elizabeth and Robert Cogburn.
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For further Information on workshops contact The Center for Touch Drawing 360-221-5745
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