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Healing and Transformative Doll Making Experts
Online Group Classes, Self-Study Creative Curriculum, Creativity Coaching, Books and Dolls
Online Group Classes, Self-Study Creative Curriculum, Creativity Coaching, Books and Dolls
Why Transformative and Healing Dolls
Change your life intentionally, by examining the forces that have brought you to where you are in this moment and then use the imagery of doll making--thought in concrete visual form--to focus your energy into evolving new ways of being and doing.Transformative dolls and healing dolls are similar in intent, since we heal bodies, minds, past wounds, and then grow new skills/attitudes/mind sets to help out body and being do things differently or more healthfully. Doing this in a group, brings the collective energy of other people and their experiences to bear on the project, like being bourne along by a stream...we're all floating together, and all keeping each other afloat.
Pamela Hastings
Online Classes and Group Coaching
click here for details Hot Flash! Are You One of Us? Participate and create with women gathered together to discover the potential inherent in being an older women and in bringing our power together to celebrate what we’ve done, the skills and energy we possess, and help ourselves and each other do even more and better in the future Class includes e-book curriculum with patterns and group facilitation and coaching with Pamela Hastings. Lessons are easy to follow and includes patterns. You can participate with the group, learn on your own, and/or share with a friend. Group will be open until December 1, 2012 You can sign up anytime $30.00 for six lessons click here for details click here for Free Hot Flash pattern visit http://hotflashwomen.blogspot.com/ E-Books for Self Study click on names for details Paper Dolls Fabric Journals Altered Books Transformative Doll Making 3-D Doll construction What better way for Pamela to combine her obsessions with reading, writing, and art making than to produce her own books and now e-books! Pamela's ebooks with patterns and extensive instructions and inspiration allow you to have a successful experience every time. Pamela also offers encouragement and inspiration to create your own adaptations as you play with art making materials. Pamela's ebooks are like no others as she offers a wide range of ways to play with paper dolls, art dolls, altered books and fabrics journals. Pamela has been a resource for transformative artmaking for two decades. These e-books offer you a quick and easy to access to her voice and creative inner wisdom. |
Barb Kobe
Medicine Dolls:
How to Make Healing Dolls for Yourself Online class and group You can start anytime. One year long, work at your own pace. click here for details Coming in Spring 2013 Medicine Dolls Master Class for Healing and therapeutic professionals and artists wishing to teach how Numbfull and The Fulls
Barb created the set of Feeling Dolls almost thirty years ago. She has launched their own website. She offers paper dolls of "The Fulls" along with a User's Manual that teaches you how to become an Emotional Coach. She is also taking orders for these soft sculpture dolls. Go to http://www.numbfullandfulls.com/
Classes in Minnesota
Visit www.weefolk.com/maureen/teach.htm to see Barb's classes in Visual Journaling, Paper Dolls, and Making Doll Faces....and this Fall The Creative Journey Game class. All offered in Jordan, Minnesota, at Maureen Carlson's Center for Creative Arts. Just 30 minutes south of Minneapolis/St. Paul airport. Dorm rooms available. Run away from home to a Creative Retreat!! |
Why Use Doll Making for Healing and Transformation?
Chakra Healing Doll - Kobe
Pamela Hastings and Barb Kobe has been making dolls for healing, transformation and personal growth for over twenty years. They both have had powerful, transformative, personal experiences making dolls for themselves. Each have gone on to teach others about the healing ways of dollmaking.
Pamela Hastings is a noted doll maker, artist, and writer, who has gathered stories and samples of art work from 50 participants from all over the world for her celebration of Womanhood with our triumphs and challenges in her latest book, HOT FLASH: A Celebration!
She has self-published several books on transformative dollmaking.
Barb Kobe started with designing and making sets of feeling puppets. She noticed that she could transfer a feeling from inside to outside into a puppet/doll and have a dialog with it. Using the feeling puppets in conversations with children brought about a safe, non-threatening, emotional discussion. She listened and witnessed that many people had stuffed their feelings and had never learned how to talk about feelings, let alone express them through artmaking. This was the beginning of her realization that making a doll and could be used as an instrument for change and growth.
Why learn about healing and transformative doll making?
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Dolls hold such wonderful and varied opportunities for image-making that can be explored by people of all backgrounds and levels of expertise. Feelings and concepts are easier to access through dollmaking. Pamela Hastings
A doll can be a tool, works on the artist as the artist works on it. It instructs, contains the sacred, represents the deep desire of the body to recreate itself, expresses every emotion from anger to love, pain to joy. It embellishes space. A doll allows you to see who you are. elinor peace bailey
We need this connection with three-dimensional, more or less human-like creations. I believe that the dollmaking allows us to create our own personal model of the world and surround ourselves with energies and images that we enjoy...adapted from Tatiana Baeva
Linda Hansen, a participant in a Medicine Doll group said, "I came to a point of my life when I was going deeper into my emotional healing and was finding that the traditional healing channels were not touching me as an artist. I needed the whole of me healed, and my art is the major form of how I communicate. I believe art is a form of language, and I needed all of my communication.skills to heal the whole of me."
We tend to see ourselves in the doll. It represents an aspect of the human condition. When one engages with the process of making a doll all kinds of possibilities come to the surface. Dollmaking is a way to free oneself of worries, struggles and emotions. Creating a doll, or any art, directly effects the automatic nervous system which controls body functions and the immune system.
Why learn about this kind of dollmaking in a group?
- Being in a group offers the opportunity to share your process and get support along the way. The teacher/coach watches over the group as a nurturing/trusted adviser offering encouragement, wisdom gathered, and positive affirmation.
- Members of the group become witnesses and supporters of each member's creative process and creations.
- Creating in a group invites intuitive energies to flow.
- Watching a group participant struggle with the creation of a healing doll gives permission to others in the group to move through the process and know they are not alone.
