CREATIVE AWAKENING: Soul Touch Coloring Journal - Softcover

Koff-Chapin, Deborah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0964562383 ISBN 13: 9780964562387

Publisher: Center for Touch Drawing, 2015

Synopsis

Creative Awakening: SoulTouch Coloring Journal is one in a series of uniquely soulful adult coloring books by Deborah Koff-Chapin, creator of the best selling SoulCards decks. Deborah has selected this collection of 38 images from thousands of inspirational Touch Drawings that she created in a range of meaningful settings. Creative Awakening focuses on active images that convey inspiration, expression, affirmation, vision, innovation, emergence, creative process, and renewal. The other SoulTouch coloring books evoke different positive, universal human attributes such as love, contemplative inwardness, appreciation of nature, and the gifts of the feminine. Together the series evokes a sense of balance and wholeness. 
These coloring books engage you in an active, co-creative relationship with inspiring images through free-form coloring and journal writing. The text suggests ways to play with color, words and even collage. It provides prompts for writing on the lined-journal side of each page. It also includes suggestions to create an atmosphere for renewal and inspiration as you work with the coloring journal, alone or in a coloring and writing group. Printed on very high quality, heavy weight paper, you have the choice to take the perforated pages out of the book to share the coloring experience with friends or frame your colored art for long term appreciation and for use as gifts. 

Soul Touch Coloring Journals ride the current wave of interest in coloring books for art therapy and stress relief; and take them to a new level of depth and creativity!

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Creative Awakening
The drawings selected for this coloring journal express many facets of the creative process. Bring these images to life on the page and within yourself through free-form coloring and reflective writing. 

May your time with these images help you develop greater trust in the deep wisdom of creativity in all of its phases. 

Blessings, Deborah Koff-Chapin

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. 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

"Deborah Koff-Chapin's artwork is extraordinary, unique, and a particularly special manifestation of that deep pool of talent that dwells within each of us."
Tony Buzan Author, Use Both Sides of Your Brain

About this edition

• Publisher: Center for Touch Drawing
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0964562383
• ISBN 13: 9780964562387
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80