Publications and Press
The SoulPages method is not an idea that came out of a workshop. It has been published in two peer-reviewed professional journals and in two professional books, taught as a certified facilitator training since 2016, used in a large-scale intervention with women displaced by war, and shown in a New York gallery. This page gathers what I have published and where the work has been presented.
My name is Rakefet Hadar. I am an art therapist, an author, and the founder of the training school for SoulPages guides. I hold a BA and an MA in Design from Buckinghamshire in England, and an MA in Art Therapy from Lesley College in Massachusetts. My academic papers were published under my earlier name, Rakefet Link-Skop, so if you come across that name in a database or a search result, it is the same person and the same method.
What professional papers have been published on the SoulPages method?
Two peer-reviewed papers setting out the method and the theory beneath it, and two chapters in professional books, one from an academic press and one from a national arts therapies association. Each one has a full summary in English on this site.
Internal Journey Journaling: The Visual Journal as a Therapeutic Tool
Bein HaMilim (Between the Words), issue 11, the journal of Kibbutzim College of Education, 2016. The paper that laid the foundations: the five principles of working in a visual journal inside a therapeutic relationship, a mapping of Winnicott’s four stages in the development of play onto the stages of therapy, and the line that runs from Jung’s Red Book to the notebook of today. It closes with a full case study of a mother I worked with for three years in a mothers’ group. At that point the method was still called Internal Journey Journaling; the name SoulPages came in the years that followed.
Read the full summary in English
“Bringing Back the Light”: The Visual Journal in the SoulPages Method as an Intervention for Hope and Resilience Resources
Psychologia Ivrit (Hebrew Psychology), May 2024. A professional account of group work with women displaced from their homes by war: the seven elements of the method, the four pillars of the intervention, and the clinical reasoning behind working through a woman’s own resources rather than through the difficult memory itself.
Read the full summary in English
“Bridges to Myself”: Easing Tension, Discovering Resources and Connecting to Hope Through the Seven Elements and the Visual Journal
A chapter in Protocols of Strength and Hope: A Guide to Facilitating Arts-Based Workshops for Building Resilience in Collective Crisis and War, initiated and edited by Dr Ronen Berger, published by Ono Academic College in partnership with the Community Stress Prevention Center, 2024. The book gathers 33 detailed workshop protocols written by arts therapists working through a period of war, and was released free online.
My chapter is protocol 32. It sets out a complete process for making one page in a visual journal following the seven elements of the SoulPages method: structured step-by-step facilitation, an equipment list, and an audience of ten years old and up. It was written specifically to work with people who do not enjoy making art or are certain they cannot.
Read the full protocol in English
“When Words Hurt and Heal”: Visual Journaling with Displaced Women
A chapter in Safe Studio, an Anthology: Creative Texts in the Wake of War, published by YAHAT, the Creative and Expressive Arts Therapies Association, October 2024. Editors: Dr Tamar Kichli-Borochovsky, Nona Orbach and Chen Jakobi. It is the association’s first anthology, a collection of personal and creative testimonies from the arts therapists who set up some fifty Safe Studios for displaced families. My chapter opens the section called Gathering Materials.
It is not a protocol but a testimony. It describes the open hotel lobby that turned into a studio, the journals volunteers had hand-sewn in advance, and the suitcase we kept the materials in, which became a transitional object for the group in its own right.
Read the full summary in English
Where else is the method cited and applied by others?
In Connecting to Strengths and Hope, Through Creation: Theory and Protocol, by Dr Ronen Berger, Vered Rahat and Liat Schwartzman, advised by Prof. Mooli Lahad, published by the Community Stress Prevention Center, second edition October 2024. It is a resilience programme for teenagers, running in the centre’s resilience units since March 2024.
The protocol I wrote is the basis for two of its workshops, and is credited to me by name in both:
- Protocol 5, “Bridges to Myself, visual journal”, based on my protocol and extended to work with three-dimensional materials.
- Protocol 18, “Visual journal, bridges to a better future”, adapting the same principles towards connecting to hope and imagining a new reality.
Layers of Meaning is also cited there as further reading on the visual journal in work with loss.
The method also travels through creators who name it in their own work. In September 2026 Tracey Young published Inner Journey to the Upper Worlds, crediting the SoulPages method and linking back to this site.
What books have I written?
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Layers of Meaning: Elements of Visual Journaling, 2019, published by Stackpole Books. The first publication to bring every element of the SoulPages method together in one place, and a creative course in its own right. It appears as a bibliographic source in my 2024 paper. The book page · On Amazon.
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Color Archetypes: Healing Processes in the Visual Journal, 2023. The book that sets out the colour language of the method. Each colour is read as an archetype, an inner figure with a voice and a role in the process, rather than as an aesthetic choice. It is the foundation of the Color Archetypes facilitator training. The book page · On Amazon.
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Gates of Hope Art Journal: The SoulPages Method for Visual Journaling, November 2025. An art book that grew out of nine months of work with a group of women who survived the massacre at Kibbutz Be’eri. Each gate introduces one of the women, her personal journey, and the journal pages she made on her way towards recovery, alongside journaling exercises to work with. The book page · On Amazon.
Where has the work been interviewed and presented?
- The Inspiration Place, Miriam Schulman’s podcast, episode 193, May 2022: an interview on building a professional certification programme around art journal techniques.
- The Jewish Experience with Rabbi Mark Wildes, 24 July 2025: Brushstrokes of the Soul: Healing through Art and Kabbalah, a full interview on art journaling, Kabbalah and healing.
- Mael Time with Daniel Mael, 16 July 2025: Bringing Back the Light: The Visual Journals of The Women of Kibbutz Be’eri, with a written companion piece, ahead of the exhibition’s New York opening.
- StencilGirl Products, 2021: introduced as a new stencil designer, and interviewed on the method, colour symbolism and the seven elements.
- Art is Magic Online: artist page.
What can you watch on video?
Filmed documentation of the exhibitions, of the Bringing Back the Light project and of the book, together with a recorded interview. Most of these live on my YouTube channel.
Be’eri Visual Journal Exhibition
Gates of Hope: The Project
Bring Back The Light Project
The Inspiration Place, Episode 193: Creating an Art Certification ProgramA filmed interview with Miriam Schulman on building a professional training in the SoulPages method.
What was the Bringing Back the Light project?
A volunteer network I set up with Merav Shaked to bring visual journaling into the hotels and the centres where displaced families were living. The figures, as they appear on the project page:
- More than 60 guides and professional facilitators trained in the SoulPages method volunteered on it.
- Around 30 centres were opened.
- Dozens of additional volunteers hand-sewed personal journals for the participants.
- Teams of two to four guides arrived at each session with a personal kit for every woman there.
Out of that project came a long stretch of work with a group of women from Kibbutz Be’eri, who made work in a visual journal over nine months, and from that work came an exhibition and a book.
The exhibition was shown at David Benrimon Fine Art in New York from 24 July to 7 August 2025: Bringing Back the Light: The Visual Journals of the Women of Kibbutz Be’eri.
The Be’eri survivors’ SoulPages exhibition
Frequently asked questions
Is the SoulPages method professionally recognised?
It has been published in two peer-reviewed professional journals, Bein HaMilim of Kibbutzim College of Education in 2016 and Psychologia Ivrit in 2024, and chapters on it appear in Protocols of Strength and Hope, published by Ono Academic College, and in the Safe Studio anthology published by YAHAT, the Creative and Expressive Arts Therapies Association, both in 2024. It has been taught as a facilitator training since 2016. It is not a substitute for psychological therapy and does not claim to be one.
Who wrote the papers, Rakefet Hadar or Rakefet Link-Skop?
The same person. Both academic papers were published under the name Rakefet Link-Skop, and the name I work and publish under today is Rakefet Hadar.
Where can I read this work in English?
A full summary of every paper and chapter is published here on this site and linked from each entry above. The original papers were published in Hebrew; the summaries carry the method, the reasoning and the findings in full.
What is the difference between Internal Journey Journaling and the SoulPages method?
They are two names for the same method. Internal Journey Journaling is the name it appeared under in the 2016 paper, and SoulPages is the name it has carried since.
May I cite this work, or invite Rakefet to speak?
Yes to both. For academic citation, reference the two original journal papers by title, journal and year as listed above. For talks, workshops or collaborations, get in touch through this site.
This work is still going. If you came here to find out whether there is something real behind the method, the answer sits in the papers, in the books and in the exhibition. And if you came here to begin something of your own, start here, and there is a free lesson waiting when you join the list: soul-pages.com
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