The Healing Doll Way 2025 CLASS
Blessing Way
This class is designed for a range of skill levels, from beginners to advanced artists. However, some experience and practice in making art and art dolls is expected. To prepare, I recommend taking the "How to Make Your Own Healing Dolls" class before enrolling in the year-long HDWay experience.
Each artist has a unique way of expressing themselves, and these personal styles can be incorporated into your healing dolls. Healing doll makers use a distinctive, healing language that isn't typically covered in traditional dollmaking classes. This language will be explored and utilized in the "How to Make" class.
For this class, you should bring your curiosity, a willingness to take creative risks, enthusiasm for learning, and a desire to heal a part of yourself. Additionally, please bring the materials needed to make the dolls.
In this class, you will:
- Learn to use your doll making skills to make healing dolls for yourself and your healing intentions
(Must know how to make art dolls to sign up for this class. And have an art journaling practice.
I suggest that you sign up for the class How to Make Your Own Healing Dolls before the year long process. (Click on link for details) - Explore healing art practices and techniques.
- Use "The Healing Doll Way" book as a guide and reference.
- Engage with a community of healing doll artists through an online Open Studio, held three times a month.
- Commit to doing creative work and making dolls outside of class, a process I refer to as "activating the process."
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What is included in the class?
This 11-month long online class is designed for beginning students and is offered in two sections: (1) Discovery and (2) Awareness and Transformation. You have time to move through the process at your own pace. Each session is offered in approximately six-week intervals, except Discovery, which is nine weeks. There are two Zoom video conference calls each month on Sundays at 12:00 pm Central Time US All calls are recorded. Discovery #1 – Introduction, the Inner Selfie (Heroine Doll). and The Guardian/Gatekeeper (January - March) 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 aid in making your personal healing doll. At the end of Discovery, you can decide whether you want to continue 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 concepts of healing dolls. The process will also prepare you for the deeper work that happens during the Self-Awareness and Transformation Process. 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. We refer to pages 9-114 in The Healing Doll Way book:
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Self 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 I encourage students to interact with each other within the Facebook group and during online Open Studios. 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 have become a sacred, safe community." We also have breakout sessions in some of the Zoom calls where students in the calls are put into small groups for part of the call. In this part of the process, you make the following dolls: #2 – THE SCAPEGOAT (April -June) The Scapegoat symbolizes what is getting in the way of achieving your healing goal. I believe making this doll opens the most potential for healing. #3 LOVING KINDNESS (June–July) 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 CHANGING WOMAN/She Who Knows (August) This doll offers you the opportunity to learn about women's developmental stages. Changing Woman is an older, wise woman. She represents a part of you that guides, assists, informs and invites you to dive deeper into your intuition and accept your growth, change and transformation. #5 THE TALISMAN (September-October) 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. #6 THE INNER HEALER (October-November) 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 pathways to your imagination. #7 SPIRIT DOLLS (December) We explore definitions of spirit dolls, what they mean and look like. OPEN STUDIOS Noon - 2:00 pm Central Standard Time US Day and time may change in 2024
Dates for 2025 class will be available late Fall Go here to Healing Doll Way Questions and Answers 
Red Thread Journey Doll
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