About Touch Drawing Workshops

About Touch Drawing Workshops

The Experience of Touch Drawing

ONLINE WORKSHOPS
November 12,   November 19 with 6 CEU’s,  December 3   

Touch Drawing is a simple yet profound process. Paper is placed over a smooth layer of paint. The pressure of fingertips on the page forms impressions on the underside. Moving in response to the sensations of the moment, the hands become extensions of the soul. Channels of expression open. Each drawing is a stepping stone deeper into the self, as series of drawings emerges. This act of creation unleashes vibrant forces that guide the psyche toward its innate wholeness. Even a person with little confidence in their art skills can feel  fulfillment, seeing their interior life come alive on the page. Touch Drawing is a practice of creative, psychological and spiritual integration. 

Deborah creates an atmosphere of safety and intimacy in her workshops. She has carefully translated the in-person experience into the online format. Deborah holds sacred space with drum, chimes, crystal bowls and evocative vocal toning while you draw. Drawing sessions are enriched with circle sharing, group vocalizing, creative writing, and meditative movement. This is an immersion is soulful expressive arts. 

Touch Drawing is relevant to artists, therapists, social workers, health care practitioners, educators, chaplains, intuitives and anyone who longs for authentic creative experience. Deborah is particularly interested in introducing Touch Drawing to people who want to facilitate the process in their own field of work. She is happy to talk with you about how you can use Touch Drawing in your particular field. 

If you have a chance...go to this event! I can't say enough about Deborah and Touch Drawing...It simply is one of the best experiences I have ever had! It feeds mind, body, and spirit....I am 50 years old and have been attending workshops for 30 years. Hands down...Deborah's Touch Drawing retreats outshine them all! Go for it!" —Lori Sweet

The 23rd Annual
Touch Drawing Gathering
July 10–15, 2023

Deborah Koff-Chapin has been practicing and teaching Touch Drawing since she began exploring its vast potential in 1974. She weaves Touch Drawing with her evocative singing, drumming, crystal bowls and ceremonial skills to facilitate transformative arts experiences. Deborah has facilitated Touch Drawing at conferences, graduate programs and retreat centers internationally. She is creator of SoulCards 1&2 and Portals of Presence. She is author of Drawing Out Your Soul and The Touch Drawing Facilitator Workbook. Deborah has served on the board of directors of the International Expressive Art Therapy Association. 

 
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Touch Drawing Workshop Participant Comments

I found the process of Touch Drawing to be at once liberating and revealing. An integration of body and spirit seemed to develop in ways not consciously intended.”
I have always wanted to put my hands into artwork, but have been in a vicious cycle of buying materials and not doing it. Touch Drawing broke through the fear of putting something onto paper. Now I am zooming! It is truly a gift.”
The process was so enlightening. I didn’t feel inhibited by what I felt to be my lack of drawing ability.”
You have given me a non-verbal way to express and work through my grief.”
A great way to take the inner child out for a romp.”            
The process of Touch Drawing opens doors to the creative energy we all share in a new and exciting way. It took me on an inner journey no other form has reached–I laughed, cried, felt pain and joy–all in new ways. Deborah is a delight and a teacher of rare ability.”
I felt totally lost in the process–not aware of the others around me. I was amazed when images appeared that I had no conscious knowledge of.”
This was a wondrous gift for personal growth and inner healing. I know I want to explore using it with my own workshops.”
I loved how easy it was to let go of the art critic and to concentrate on the message the hands, paint, and paper had to teach me.”
I learned a new tool! Yes!! I grow in ability to flow as I continued to Touch Draw.”
Thanks so much for gifting me with this to use in my psychotherapy practice.”
Touch Drawing is a revelation – it’s a letter from the inner self to the personality.”
The ‘Touch’ part of Touch Drawing says it all. I thought it was called Touch Drawing because you ‘touch’ the paper, but for me, the drawing ‘touched’ me. I really felt this workshop. The mind turns off and the body turns on, the heart turns on. This type of drawing is good practice for staying human and sane. I will use this practice to counter the art school technical stuff I’m learning now.”
Touch Drawing has deepened my experience of my creative self.”
Touch Drawing is helping me to ‘SEE’ my journey.”
Touch Drawing is easy, awesome and constantly surprising. When I use both hands directly on the paper, without implements, the images pour straight out of my soul in a way I can’t predict.”
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