Soulcards 1

Koff-Chapin, Deborah

ISBN 10: 0964562308 ISBN 13: 9780964562301

Publisher: Center for Touch Drawing, 1996

Synopsis

This exquisite set of 60 full color cards, created by renowned artist Deborah Koff-Chapin, comes with a 36 page manual which guides you into a living relationship with the images through silent contemplation, journal writing, storytelling, visualization, movement and dream incubation. Dynamic processes for using the cards with another person and within groups are also included.

About this title

About the Author

Deborah Koff-Chapin, BFA Cooper Union, is an artist, vocalist, author, and teacher. She has been developing the process of Touch Drawing since she discovered it in revelatory play in 1974. Through her years of Touch Drawing, Deborah has tapped into a universal level of the human soul. Deborah is creator of the best selling decks, SoulCards 1&2 and author of Drawing Out Your Soul and The Touch Drawing Facilitator Workbook. She has produced a DVD, audio CD, slide shows, e-newsletters and online community to support the dissemination of Touch Drawing worldwide.

Deborah is on the faculty of California Institute of Integral Studies, She has presented at many programs and conferences including Esalen, Naropa Institute, Omega Institute, JFK School of Arts and Consciousness, School of Visual Arts, The American Art Therapy Association, and The Association for Humanistic Psychology. She has served on the board of directors of The International Expressive Arts Therapy Association.

Deborah's workshops and Interpretive Touch Drawing have been integrated into executive and management retreats for hospitals and health systems. She has been Interpretive Artist at numerous conferences including The Parliament of World Religions, The New Story Summit,  Engaging the Other, Sacred Activism, and Seeds of Compassion with the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Deborah's artwork and essays have been published in numerous magazines, journals and books. Deborah is founding director of The Center for Touch Drawing. She has convened the Annual Touch Drawing Gathering since1997.

"Deborah Koff-Chapin is one of the world's leaders in Transformative Arts."
Michael Grady Dean, Graduate School Arts and Consciousness
John F Kennedy University

"The drawings have captured a deep and mysterious element of both pain and uplift..."
Jon Kabat-Zinn Author, Wherever You Go, There You Are

From the Back Cover

Powerful Images for Creativity and Insight
This set of 60 evocative images created by Deborah Koff-Chapin will speak directly to your soul. The accompanying guidebook suggests creative ways to deepen your experience of the cards and foster personal insight. SoulCards 1 is complete unto itself, or can used with the companion deck, SoulCards 2, to enrich the range of imagery. Use the deck alone, with a partner or in a group.

"Mysterious and revealing...these images help us to understand our own souls."
Isabel Allende Author, The House of the Spirits


"Deborah has created superb images to touch and embolden your own imagination."
David Whyte Author of The Heart Aroused and Crossing the Unknown Sea


"Who has not dreamed of finding a treasure chest? I have found one. One has only to dip into Deborah Koff-Chapin's exquisite cards to find the soul's equivalent of the most precious gems, the rarest spices, the choicest silks."
Sherry Ruth Anderson, Co-author, The Cultural Creatives

From the Inside Flap

You hold in your hands an offering of images from the depths of the human soul. Use them to nourish and evoke your own insight and creativity. There are no preconceived meaning to the cards. think of them as mirrors through which to reflect upon your own soul. Any image may evoke a different response, depending upon who chooses it and the context in which it is seen.

Edition details

• Publisher: Center for Touch Drawing
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0964562308
• ISBN 13: 9780964562301
• Binding: Cards
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 36