HD Way Details   Sign up begins December 1 and ends January 5

PictureBlessing Way

Do I Need to Know How to Make Dolls before I Sign Up?
This class is for all levels of learning, skill, and expertise. We each have unique ways of expressing ourselves and so do you.
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Healing dolls are made from every kind of material you can imagine. Many ways of making these dolls will be covered in the Discovery Process. All you need to bring to the class is your curiosity, willingness to take creative risks and make art, enthusiasm for learning, and a desire to heal an aspect of yourself.....and materials to make the dolls themselves. 

​This year I am also offering online art doll technique classes called How to Make Your Own Healing Dolls. These classes are offered quarterly, with a different subject matter each quarter, such as Body, Form, Skin and Bones; Faces, Hands and Feet,  Costuming; and Finishing  techniques. If you sign up for the Healing Doll Way entire year you can sign up for these classes at half price.   Go here to details
 
What is included in the class?
This year-long online class is offered in two sections:
(1) Discovery and (2) Awareness and Transformation.
You have an entire year to move through the making process at your own pace.
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Each session is offered in two-month intervals, except Discovery, which is ten weeks.
There are two Zoom video conference calls each month on Sundays at 2:00 pm Central Time US
All call are recorded.
  • The first ZOOM call is about the process and usually contains a visualization an in-the-moment art activity and discussion.
  • The second ZOOM call is called Chat & Make. This includes talking about how to make art dolls for healing. I share different doll making skills and you actually will be making some dolls during the call. 
  • About every other month (during Awareness and Transformation) I open up the call for a Tell & Share. I ask every member to share where they are in the process and and dolls created.  Dates and times will vary.

Discovery Process
#1 – Introduction, the Inner Selfie (Heroine Doll). and The Guardian (January 15 – March 31)
#1 – Introduction, the Inner Selfie (Heroine Doll). and The Guardian (January 15 – March 31)
This section focuses on identifying your beliefs about healing, building resources, and moving through and completing process assignments. You will learn about and practice making feeling and healing dolls, as well as be introduced to the visual journaling techniques that will ultimately aid in making your personal healing doll.
At the end of Discovery you can decide whether you want to continue on to the remainder of the year.

The Discovery Process invites you to play with your imagination, take creative risks, do research on dolls and self images, and play with different aspects of healing dolls. The process will also prepare you for the deeper work that happens during the Self-Awareness and Transformation Process. In Discovery, I interact with students regularly, sending files with things to read and offering artmaking activities not in the curriculum—or even in the book. I also include dollmaking videos. You will use the following sections in The Healing Doll Way book:
  • How You Can Become a Healing Artist
    ​Learn, experiment, and play. Lots of journal prompts and invitations to "play with dolls". Create your definition of healing, set a healing intention, and play with and explore your healing self through your journaling assignments. You will also be researching, exploring, and playing with a dollmaking style and ways of making dolls in general.
  • Subjects covered: healing terms, symbols, metaphors, archetypes, feelings, inner and outer body, and body parts.
  • Make Your Self (Heroine) Doll
    Make the doll that represents the you who is moving through the healing dolls process. Uses the Inner Selfie e-book.
  • Make Your Guardian Doll
    The first doll in the process, the Guardian, represents protection, safety, compassion, hope, possibility, and encouragement. This doll stands witness and is always present while you are making the other dolls.​
GO TO FEES
Awareness and Transformation
Dive Deep into the Healing Dolls
I continue interacting with students regularly, sending files with information to read, and offering more artmaking activities not in the curriculum—or even in the book. I continue to support students on the group Facebook page and in Zoom calls and encourage students to interact with each other. You become a witness to the other students and part of their process as well. The group learns to talk to each other in the language of healing dolls and to ask direct and powerful questions. My students say "we become a sacred, safe community." This year I will have break out sessions where students in the calls will be put into small groups.

In this part of the process you make the following dolls:

#2 – THE SCAPEGOAT (April 1 – May 31)
The Scapegoat symbolizes what is getting in the way of achieving your healing goal. I believe making this doll opens up the most potential for healing.

#3 LOVING KINDNESS (June 1 – July 31)
This doll allows for more compassionate, positive, and peaceful ways of responding to the creative process and to any feelings the Scapegoat may have brought up.

#4 THE TALISMAN (August 1 – September 30)
Because the Scapegoat doll can bring up painful emotions from the past, the Talisman offers an opportunity to create a balance to the story of that pain. This is a strong and powerful doll that pulls you out of the past and into the present and future.

#5 THE INNER HEALER (October 1 – November 30)
The Inner Healer reminds you that dollmaking can give voice to your heart and your wisdom. This doll will symbolize and remind you of all your inner resources. She reminds you that you can move through painful experiences with insight and compassion, opening up pathways to your imagination.

#6 SPIRIT DOLLS (December 1 – January 15 following year)
We engage in a process of exploring the definition of  spirit dolls, what they mean and look like.

​Go here to Healing Doll Way Questions and Answers
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