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The Visual Journal
SoulPages™ Method
The Visual Journal is a powerful tool that connects to a place of healing and transformation, that helps us self-educate about different materials and work with a variety of techniques of mixed media – all in the format of a journal.
The Binding of the Journal, the work inside it thereafter, the gentle guidance of a trustworthy instructor – allow us to go through processes of growth and healing, and even light up a spark of joy and passion.
I developed the SoulPages™ method to let you reconnect with parts of you that dream and fulfill, parts of you that are joyous.
Join one of my digital courses, in-person workshops, or one of my trips around the world. We’ll set out on a journey in the magical world of Visual Journaling.
Join me in one of digital course, we will journey to the magical world of visual journal.
How can you learn SoulPages journaling?
Artistic Soul Route
If you love art self-healing and personal development- you can enjoy many courses on the Artistic Soul Route. Start creating your SoulPages™ through different modalities: Family constellation, Color Archetypes, Manifestation mantras, shamanic Journeys, and more.
The courses are organized by a Letter to show how advanced they are.
*Pro courses (with more than 8-10 lessons) are considered Modules and can be your way to transform and be a SP Professional in the future.
SP Community Route
Learn about the SoulCircle community, where you could create with great teachers. This yearly course Runs on Sundays with Multiple Teachers of SoulPages.You are also welcome to our Facebook group, where you could get highlights from the lessons, free gifts and lots of community sharings that will enrich yourv life.
SoulPages Facilitator Route
Become your own Facilitator/mentor and learn how to pass on your life insights with the SoulPages™ method. This Training can change your life!
You could accomplish the Facilitator training by completing 40 SoulPages lessons or 4-5 modules. ( including an Intro course+ 2 advanced courses with Rakefet or- you could learn the full course with Rakefet & Pam)
The professional courses are a great way to connect with your inner artist and create new opportunities to work with clients and small groups.
SoulPages books
“Layers of Meaning” and “Color Archetypes” gathers all the information about the seven elements of visual journaling.
Both of the books allow for depper understanding of the method.
Plus you could start creating today!!
Hi ! my name is Rakefet Hadar
We are all born artists
Eight years ago, I discovered the Visual Journal and it changed my life, it brought so much joy and reconnected me to an abyss of creativity that had been waiting to be revealed!
I developed the SoulPages™ method to help as many people as possible encounter the power of creation, to reconnect with their passion, joy, and healing strengths.
My method is built upon seven simple elements: Intention, Magical coincidence, Background, Image, Color, Line, and Text.
I teach my method in different ways: through trips I organize, online courses and in-person workshops. I also published a book last year that consolidates all my knowledge, many exercises, and pieces from my own private journal.
I invite you to join me on a journey in the Visual Journal!
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Visual Journaling can transform your life!
Visual journal
A visual journal is a tool that helps us to learn the language of meaning in our lives. Through journaling, we discover ourselves and find ways to get closer to our inner self and understand what is important to us.
Intention, magical coincidence, background, image, line, color, and text – these are the seven elements of the SoulPages journaling method I developed.
Over the years many people have approached me and asked “Explain to me what is the visual journal? Why is it good for me?”
The best way to explain the essence of the visual journal is to invite people to a meeting and see the magic that happens when people start creating soul pages. And when I say “soul”, that’s exactly what I mean; the journal is an unadulterated soul. Using it correctly can change lives. Over the past few years, visual journaling has changed my life, and I hope it will change yours, too.
The visual journal allows for an infinity of gifts
It is an amazing tool for deep healing and change,
It is a good friend who accompanies me wherever I go
It is a vessel to release in him everything that is inside.
It allows me to create in a way that is accurate to me
It allows me to discover and expose the layers of the soul that lie within me, waiting for the light of consciousness and the wonderful colors that will translate them into the containing page of the journal.
The journal enables processes of all kinds, processes between myself and processes between myself and others.
It helps me plan projects, dream dreams, and make them come true.
The Journal makes it possible to document what I go through on a daily basis and from that produce insights and understand the bigger picture.
It also allows me to connect to my roots, to the extended family, to remember sweet-bitter moments from childhood, to devote time to my deceased loved ones, and to accompany me in one way or another.
The Journal develops the ability to use imagination, metaphors, and images, it increases the creativity inherent in us and allows us to use it in ways we never dreamed possible for us.
Visual Journaling -How can I start?
There are a few ways to start visual journaling practice.
For beginners, I would recommend my book “ Layers of meaning” with one of my online courses.
You can try one of my cours
If you want to learn a life-changing facilitation course you are invited to learn more about SoulPages program.
Visual Journaling
Visual journaling is a transformational activity that combines artistic methods and self-help exercises in a format of a private journal.
Visual journaling promotes joy, imagination, playfulness, and connectedness with your inner child.
During the last eight years, I developed a unique method, “SoulPages” Journaling, based on the seven elements: intention, magical coincidence, background, image, line, color, and text.
Each of these elements teaches us something important about ourselves.
I invite you to sign up to my site and get the free mini-course- “The red violin” that can teach you the
basics of visual journaling in my method.
What is Visual Journaling, and how to can you start?
I want to share a short story that illustrates the connection between the visual journal and magical coincidence. Six years ago, in my final year of studies for a graduate degree in art therapy, I met a good friend of mine for lunch. She pulled an old children’s book out of her purse, and when she opened it, I saw thick sheets that were hand-sewn together between its covers instead of regular pages. My friend had drawn on the pages in pencil and markers, pasted snippets of newspapers, and written down her inner thoughts.
“What is this?” I asked her, feeling its magic start to permeate me.
It’s called Visual journaling,” she said. “It’s a kind of art that you create in a journal. Anyone can do it; anything goes, no rules, and it’s a lot of fun.”
I went home, not knowing that this meeting would be life-changing. Instead, I felt an overpowering need to create a book of my own; that same day, I sewed myself a journal with the covers of an old book.
And I haven’t stopped since…
Visual Journaling-Bottom line
Working in a visual journal It’s an activity that anyone can do at any age! It’s easy to start on your own.
I hope you will join me and learn more about my method In this free course- the red violin
Just sign up and start connecting with your inner child and create with the seven elements.
visual art journal
We are all born artists, but as we grow up, we forget the language of art -a visual art journal is an amazing tool that can awaken our inner child-artist that knows to “talk” art on the most joyous freeway.
The ability to express our inner world in another language, the language of art, symbols, color, and materials, is ingrained and healing. We just have to rediscover it. Creativity is a gift to ourselves. To create something visual, something from nothing is the ability of the inner child – the artist within.
Many people live their lives without the unique joy of creativity, without the excitement of using different materials and colors, without the magic that is enabled thanks to creativity and imagination.
I discovered the visual art journal in a very difficult period of my life, and it healed me and changed my life.
I developed a simple transformative way of journaling with the seven elements: Intention, magical coincidence, background, color, image, line, and text.
Visual art journal – How can this practice change your life?
- Connecting to the inner child and igniting the joy and passion in our lives
- The development of the language of the imagination and the inner world that will enrich our lives
- Learning a new creative language -Mixed media, that allows for infinite techniques and materials.
- An in-depth and creative way to deal with obstacles and problems
- Creating in the visual journal activates our creativity and allows for profound change in other areas of our lives.
- Connecting to a warm, vibrant, and accepting community, you will never feel alone.
- Gain meaningful insights into your life and the possibility of bringing about transformation
- Many options for learning, online courses, frontal groups, and more
The “soul pages” method for creating in the visual art journal
The visual art journal helps me connect to an exceptional place within me, the inner dream child, that curious child of four or five whose language of colors and shapes is his main language. This child is a magical child, who looks at the world with shining eyes, a child artist who feels like the world is a playground and he just needs to discover.
On my site, you will find many ways to connect with your inner child within the visual art journal.
visual art diary
visual art diary is one of the many names of the visual Journal. This is a personal diary with special thick paper, usually made by hand. Inside the visual art diary, you can create infinite worlds of magic with the seven elements of visual journaling.
I often see the expression of being drawn and longing experienced by people who come across pages of such journals for the first time – they are captivated, as if by a spell… something about the images, the colors, the free expression calls upon them to reconnect with something deep inside.
SoulPages is a method of creating a visual art diary with the seven elements: Intention, magical coincidence, background, images, colors, lines, and text.
You can read about them on my site.
Visual art diary as an expression of our inner world
The visual art diary can help us express our inner world and serve as a self-empowerment tool that can heal us.
You can use these prompts to start creating in your art diary:
My first memory as a child
If I had to choose one of the basic 3 colors to identify my spirit it would be?
create a representation of your family with only colored paper.
create your creative bubble with only pieces of text.
Paint your favorite music with only blots of color and lines.
choose one line of your favorite song and try to translate it into images.
How may we learn how to work with a visual art diary?
The method of working with a visual art diary may be learned in different ways: group lessons, private lessons, online courses, and personal trial and error.
But above all, it is important to understand that any teacher/facilitator who teaches visual Journaling should be first and foremost an established artist in this type of media.
A teacher of visual Journaling is a person who works regularly with a journal, investigates his own internal processes, and develops significant methods to transfer these processes to people who come to learn from him/her.
Contrary to any other form of art, learning visual Journaling means learning about internal processes and not only techniques and materials.
I created the SoulPages facilitator course because I believe that we need certified facilitators in this field of art.
SoulPages method is the first training program that is focused on the facilitation of visual journaling.