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My interest is in: Touch Drawing Personal Use, SoulCards Personal Use, Facilitating Touch Drawing, Facilitating SoulCards

What brings you to an interest in Touch Drawing or SoulCards?: I personally experienced the magic and profoundness of Touch Drawing when I took a Touch Drawing workshop with Deborah, two years ago, at Omega in Rhinebeck, NY. I live in Wenham, MA and would love to find a community of TD users and/or facilitators in this location enabling me to better stay connected to the process. I think that the synergy and energy that is created by a group of like minded individuals is healing, transformative, and exciting.

My experience applies to:: Art, Creativity, Education, Spiritual, Intuitive, Teens, Hospice, Expressive Arts, Creative Art Therapy

Other areas of interest & experience: Equine experiential creativity, growth, and learning.

In what setting have you facilitated?: Staten Island Child Advocacy Center, NY
Small groups of friends

I attended the Annual Touch Drawing Gathering on Whidbey Island, Washington: 2005

At 3:15pm on August 23rd, 2007, Sandra Wallin said…: Dear Joanne,
Florence!!! My oh my what a wonderful trip... and the healing ranch in TX sounds divine. I also have a dear friend in TX (Dallas), Sara Willerson, who is an equine therapist, who integrates expressive arts and shamanic practices. She knows Laurie and Melissa.

Instead of the 6 degrees of seperation I think it shuld be called the 6 degrees of connection - something my friend Bonnie and I talk about and she has also joined this group.

I'm off to zen while picking paddocks.
TTFN,
Sandra

At 9:25am on August 20th, 2007, Sandra Wallin said…: Hi Joanne,

How nice to see your name on this list. Isn't it wonderful. How are you doing and what kinds of equine arts "stuff" are you doing?

Warmly,
Sandra

At 12:27pm on August 13th, 2007, Amanda Koh said…: Oh, sorry, Joanne.... It looks like I can't send you a private email with my contact info unless we are friends....... You can ask to be my friend if you like, and I'll OK it when I get a chance. :)

At 3:45am on July 14th, 2007, Joanne Desmond said…: Hi Deborah, Amanda, and everyone,
It is so good to be connected with such a wonderful group! Sorry for the delay in my reply. This month is very hectic for me as I am preparing myself for a month's stay in Florence, Italy. I leave on July 31st, returning on August 27th. I will be studying printmaking at the Santa Reparata Art School with an American group led by Dan Welden. This is very exciting. That said, I look forward to staying connected with the TD group, exchanging ideas, energies, creative thoughts, and developing friendships.
Amanda, just last night, I spoke with a friend who lives outside Austin, TX who is creating a wonderful retreat place on her property called the Healing Ranch. The healing is centered in and around the energy of horse. She and I spoke about ideas of how to integrate the expressive arts into her offerings. My dream is to have a space wherein the horses co-facilitate with humans a wonderful healing and restorative experience for all attendees. This would be reciprocal to the facilitators and horses as the energy transfers back and forth. I can see the humans coming to the TD space after their horse connection and letting the images flow outward using the TD materials.
Deborah, this idea of having a TD Community is so very exciting. I love it! Thank You!

At 6:31pm on July 10th, 2007, Deborah Koff-Chapin said…: Joanne, I would love to see your face on the network! Can you add a pic of yourself to your profile? amanda was really excited to hear about you.

At 11:33pm on July 8th, 2007, Amanda Koh said…: Hi, Joanne! I am so happy to meet someone else interested in integrating the creative into the equine experience! Please think about joining my Equine TD group. I'm going to send you an invite......... Let's talk about everything TD/equine in there! I'd love to find out what you've experienced!

At 11:16am on July 8th, 2007, Deborah Koff-Chapin said…: Hi, Joanne! I have been meaning to contact you and let you know about the Equine therpay group that is already up on this site. Have you seen it yet? Amanda Koh, who came to this past year's Gathering, set it up, and I told her about you. Blessings, Deborah

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