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

What brings you to an interest in Touch Drawing or SoulCards?: I have been doing Touch drawing for about 10 years, as a participant and a facilitator, in educational and therapeutic settings. i teach Touch Drawing as one of the core courses in the Art and Healing Certificate Program at Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, FL. My co-teacher, Victoria Domenichello-Anderson and myself believe that Touch Drawing is potentially such a powerful creative and personal experience that all the students in this Expressive Arts program can benefit greatly by taking the class. I have been teaching small weekly Touch Drawing workshops in my studio for about a year and a half as well. As a visual artist, I mount many of my Touch Drawings on canvas and further develop them, usually with acrylics.I have attended one TD gathering.

My experience applies to:: Therapy, Art, Creativity, Education, Aging, Health, Abuse, Grief, Parkinsons, Meditation, Expressive Arts

Other areas of interest & experience: I am a Registered Expressive Arts Consultant Educator and am devoted to bringing the power of the Expressive Arts (including Touch Drawing) to a wide variety of people in a a myriad of settings. I have a business, Expressive Arts Florida, with my wonderful colleagues: Victoria Domenichello-Anderson, Tamara Teeter Knapp and Elizabeth Bornstein. We are doing team building, expressive arts therapy, retreats, classes and workshops for adults and children.

Have you done Touch Drawing?: Yes

How did you find out about the Touch Drawing Community?: From being a regular visitor to the TD web site.

Have you facilitated Touch Drawing?: Yes

In what setting have you facilitated?: Private workshops
Classes at Ringling College of Art and Design
Therapy groups

I attended the Annual Touch Drawing Gathering on Whidbey Island, Washington: 2006

Share a special experience with Touch Drawing or SoulCards.: At the Touch drawing gathering, I had a very powerful and unexpected experience with drawing my response to the death of my mother.
This was profoundly healing. Please see Nancy Watson's page, as she created a moving video of my drawings and writing. This video "Touch drawing: Journey Through Grief" is also available on the "videos" page.

Do you facilitate SoulCards with others?: No

Is there anything else you would like us to know about you?: i am on the Board of IEATA (International Expressive Arts Therapy Association) and I recommend this organization as professional support and community. The next conference is in Aug. 2009 in Boston.
www.ieata.org

City, state, zip and/or region and country: Sarasota, FL 34236 and Cortes Island, B.C., V0P1K0

My website is: http://www.kathleenhorne.org

Another website of mine is: http://www.expressiveartsflorida

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At 11:02am on June 7th, 2008, Kathleen Horner said…: Kathleen,

As I was looking over the members section, your name popped out at me for obvious reasons. Your work is just beautiful! I experimented years ago with Touch Drawing, put the work aside for a few years to launch my art business and am now just coming back into it in full form. How did you begin introducing yourself as a Touch Drawing facilitator in your community?

Kathleen

At 4:09pm on May 15th, 2008, Deborah Koff-Chapin said…: Kathleen, we are putting together the next e-newsletter. I am featuring a drawing each by a few community members, and would like to include you. is that ok? it would be great if you add something ew, a blog posting or someting so when people come to you page, they can see it up to date. Also, notice we have new EVENTS LISTINGS. maybe you can list your program and its next start date. Please rsvp asap. Deborah

At 8:32pm on April 27th, 2008, Deborah Koff-Chapin said…: Kathleen, So sorry oit took d so long to respond to your request to join the group leader. for some reason, I have not been getting any notification of those requests, and I just found the obscure area where they were waiting for me. I'm pushing myself to get things more activated right now.

I love all the images you ahve been adding to your page, by the way. AND the vibrant look of you member page. Love, Deborah

At 9:00pm on December 12th, 2007, Tanjariitta Anttila van Hoover said…: Hi Kathleen!
It is SOOO good to hear from you! I can relate to "whirlwind" - so many things have happened to both of us, it seems! I have heard some of the exciting news that are happening with Expressive Arts Florida. It is so wonderful - I wish I was there to see it. I miss my Art and Healing classes, and you, terribly. I am there in spirit though. Please tell everyone I said hi if you think of it. Soon enough I hope to have some things going in Montana for Expressive Arts.
Love,
Tanjariitta

At 5:50pm on October 26th, 2007, Dorothy Mahrie said…: Just joined the TD site. I'm returning to San Diego to teach in Nov/Dec and am planning some free TD workshops to help the fire victims. I'm looking for some help/donations either materials or money to buy materials, etc. Any suggestions. I'm not really familiar with how this TD site works but would love to contact everyone to see if they are willing to help out with this not so small project. Thank you for any help you can offer.

At 7:22pm on October 23rd, 2007, Nancy Watson said…: Hi Kathleen: Have you seen the video on this website? I have it on youtube but it is private. Here is the link http://youtube.com/watch?v=Wz-9EJJ8eRY

Would you be able to share it via youtube?

I'm on hold with TD. I'm working on getting strong via diet, exercise, and spiritual peace. My goal is to go forward in 2008 if all goes well.

At 6:38am on October 20th, 2007, Kathleen Horne said…: Hi Claujuh
Thank you so much for expressing your appreciation of my art work! I find it wonderful when my art touches someone else at the "soul level' as my TD's most certainly come, often unbidden, from that place.

I enjoyed reading your Baptism by Fire narrative....I have found that when I start something new, i try to control all the variables to make for a successful experience, and then something shows up that I couldn't have predicted and have to figure out how to deal with on the spot! Sounds like you rose to the challenges thrown in your path.
In regards to "surface" rather than "depth", in my experience people often initially seem to get caught up in the "technique", rather than the process of TD. My own style of encountering this is with gentle reminders and setting an example, starting with just one color, taking time at the beginning to create sacred space, and saying something about avoiding conversation, especially small talk,as that makes a deep experience impossible. I know also that some people aren't ready for a deep experience, and I also try to make room for that to happen, and to allow people to discover their own way into the process, especially when I am working with folks i don't know at all. I often create a few minutes for people to write, before they share, sometimes just looking through their whole series and writing a few words down in response to each drawing. Then, when we get together to share, I suggest they read, rather than "talk about", and I ask others to avoid commenting on each other's until after the person has shared. I talk about commenting on each other's as witnessing, not interpreting or critiquing.
Hope this helps, and good luck next time. Hope you keep us posted!
Kathleen

At 6:04am on October 19th, 2007, Claujuh said…: not sure what became of the message i left for you yesterday, but here goes again! hello kathleen....i attended The Gathering three years ago and have been using Touch Drawing to inform my life for about five years. i have just begun to facilitate a class. ...and already am considering working one on one with a gentleman who just sort of APPEARED in the class this week (story is in my first blog if you are interested)....at any rate, i wanted to say thank you for your art....for your vision...your work is beautiful and inspiring and instructive...on many levels. thank you! ~claujuh

At 8:17am on July 19th, 2007, Nancy Watson said…: Hi Kathleen: It is my pleasure to be here amongst all these amazing people. Another way to keep the river flowing as we all, in our own way, make up the water to provide a means to communicate within through touch drawing.

Again I want to thank you for allowing me to create a presentation with your drawings. Your drawings touched all who saw them at our Hospice meeting. I am in awe everytime I watch it. Thank you again my dear.

At 3:22pm on July 4th, 2007, carol kennedy said…: Hey Kathleen! It was so great to see you here on the site! Thanks for the howdy. I am excited and hopeful about this new method of staying connected - it's the equivalent of MySpace or FaceBook for grownups who are Touch Drawing! I love it !! Are you going to the gathering this year? I am unable to - but will as alwyas be there in spirit. I think I'd rather be on Whidbey Island in the summer than just about anywhere else on earth - but I will be in Durango, CO for that week. Take care!
Happy Fourth!!