The Touch Drawing Gathering provides support and spaciousness to release day-to-day pressures and experience liminal sacred space. What a blessing this is: a time-out-of-time to settle into your soul and move through many dimensions of the Touch Drawing process. Participants share a passion for the transformative power of creative expression. Our focus unfolds through the week from personal exploration, to intuitive engagement with others, to a deepening relationship with the earth and spirit. Though Touch Drawing anchors the core of the experience, something more happens that cannot be described in words. Read below to get a better sense of what the Gathering is. You can also see a daily schedule and find answers to Frequently Asked Questions. |
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Time in Silence and Drawing in Nature
To balance the richness of group process, we enter a day of silence. This provides spaciousness for personal integration. With a bag lunch and drawing materials, you can wander the towering cedar and fir forest of the hundred-acre retreat center. Or join me for a walk on Maxwelton Beach, facing the Olympic Mountains, where you can find your spot in the driftwood piles. This is is a day to rest, integrate and to draw in communion with the great trees, waters and life all around you. Later in the afternoon, we gather in silence in the Sanctuary for a time of writing and moving with our drawings. |
The Gathering offers ample time for personal exploration through Touch Drawing. But we explore a more expansive range of impulses for creating as well. One of the processes we engage, called Inner Portraits, offers a powerful affirmation of how accessible intuitive knowing can be. Deborah guides partners into a state of mutual receptiveness. In openness to your partner’s presence, you create a series of drawings. It can be an ecstatic experience to find that images you create have deep significance for your partner. And to recognize specific images from your own life in the drawings created for you by your partner is a precious experience of being ‘seen’. This is a surprisingly easeful process and affirms the access we all have to subtle knowing. No drawing skill is needed! We close with a precious session sharing stories from each Inner Portrait. |
Drawing in the LabyrinthWe also have drawing sessions in which we attune to transpersonal levels. One of the ways we do this is a contemplative labyrinth walk. We often choose a collective focus for this session. The center of the labyrinth is prepared with drawing materials so that you can draw when you arrive at the ‘stillpoint’. You walk out of the labyrinth carrying your creations. The images that emerge from this session have an expansive, planetary quality. |
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