 As of July 1, I have completed my six-month sabbatical, which began on January 1, 2024. During the months of July and August, I have been preparing to teach my “How to Make Your Own Healing Dolls” classes. This preparation is intentional. I have observed that students who enroll in the yearlong Healing Doll Way process without prior knowledge, practice, and skills in crafting art dolls often become frustrated and fail to complete their dolls. Additionally, if they are unfamiliar with the specialized language of healing dolls used in the class, they face challenges and obstacles. Therefore, the How to Make Your Own Healing Dolls class is designed to equip newcomers with the necessary skills and understanding. Click below for details. Email me with questions [email protected] How to Make Own Healing Dolls class starts Sunday, September 1st. In the Healing Doll Way process, each art and healing doll embodies a unique energy, guiding the maker through a journey of self-discovery, awareness and transformation. As each doll takes shape, it becomes a container of the maker’s energy and a talisman symbolizing a healing intention. The process evolves, intensifies, and unfolds in various ways as the maker continues creating dolls throughout their journey. I plan to offer The Healing Doll Way process in 2025. If you are interested, I recommend taking the How to Make Your Own Healing Dolls class first. You must have a copy of my book, The Healing Doll Way, which you should read and engage with by completing some, if not all, of the Creative Actions. If you don't have a copy you can purchase from me. To be added to the waiting list for the 2025 Healing Doll Way, please email me at [email protected]. If you have previously expressed interest and sent your Pre-class Interview form, please email me again to confirm your continued interest.
STUDENTS COMMENTS
Something I learned about myself: I can unfreeze the creative part of myself even when there are few signs of life (thank you, thank you, thank you!), but also that it is critical to acknowledge the importance of creativity and the creative healing potential in my life and to learn how to honor that part of me, which is such a big part of me. Eileen I would like to say that this was a wonderful experience. The people involved were so open to sharing. It was great to not feel all alone in the world, even though many experiences were different from mine. The connection, I think, may have been greater for those who knew each other prior to this, but nonetheless a connection was made for me as well. Barb was a great moderator and supporter throughout the process, and I for one am very glad she did this project. The part I like best: Making the dolls and reading other's posts. Well, to be truthful, I liked the whole project. It had a flow, a certain order, that one can't BE without the other. Like life.
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I invite you to check out my Holiday special at www.healingdollway.com. When you purchase my book The Healing Doll Way you will receive the 12 Healing Doll Way cards for free. On December 1, 2022, the window opens for signing up for the yearlong Healing Doll Way online class. I often suggest new students sign up for Discovery first. Discovery includes an Introduction, the Inner Selfie (Heroine Doll). and The Guardian/Gatekeeper (January 29 – March 26) 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. You will find all the details about the class here https://www.healingdollway.com/healing-doll-way-class.html I offer payment plans. Early bird fees end January 15, 2023 I ask that you send me an email stating that you are interested in the class. Include in your email please include your responses to the preclass interview. You will find the PDF of the preclass interview at https://www.healingdollway.com/hd-way-costs.html Send them to [email protected]. I schedule a one-on-one Zoom conversation with every potential student. Once I have received your preclass interview, we have had a zoom call then I will send you a PayPal Invoice for the cost of the class. Email me with any questions at [email protected]
What Students Have Said about the yearlong class
"I learned that it's about process not product. It's the process that heals our connection to the doll we have made. When my doll was finished, I noticed a subtle shift but can't really describe it. The doll is a reflection of something in me." Linda R "I think this is a great course on many levels. It encourages creativity and self-expression without judgment which is so helpful. It is a kind of 'sympathetic magic' that really facilitates healing. I took it because I wanted to explore the nature of creativity in 'me', and I learned a lot about this very thing--and, in the process I made a few dolls I love!" Julie S "I love the class creative processes, especially neuro tangles and making intuitive paper dolls, they all tapped into my inner child. I learned that making art and healing dolls is a process and that they tap into the core of who I am, and that I intuit a lot of information about what I am making. I would like to learn much more about art journaling in trying to be more self-aware. And learn to create more rapidly without as much thinking and discussion with myself. I liked how Barb allows her intuition and imagination to create what needs to be taught or presented on the Zoom classes calls. She often hit on just what I needed to hear or learn. Barb uses the book as a foundation and guide and embellishes it with creative activities designed around what she perceives are the needs of the group. I loved her expressions of wonder at things that would come up unexpectedly. I feel more whole, less full of holes than I did at the beginning of the class, and I feel that if I had not taken the class that I would be in a darker place today. I loved the community of women on Zoom classes and in the Open Studios. I wish I had taken more advantage of Open Studios, and plan to in the future because there was so much learning and sharing. I am thankful and grateful." Beckie F  Want to learn how to make your own? Are you willing to explore, play, experiment and learn about making art dolls for healing? Whether you are just beginning or have made dolls before, it is immensely helpful to learn a variety of techniques for constructing art dolls. You will then be able to call on these skills and techniques when you dive deeper into the inner work of making healing art dolls. These techniques are the focus of this class series. I will be teaching my online class How to Make Your Own Healing Dolls starting August 20, 2022. If you are thinking about signing up for my yearlong class based on my book The Healing Doll Way in 2023, this is a great Healing Dolls skill building opportunity. Visit www.healingdollways.com to read all the details about the class and how to sign up. Check the galleries to see dolls students have made in the class. 
Recently I wrote in my journal. Making a Scapegoat doll is an opportunity to participate in your own healing; a way of addressing your woundedness. When you are making your Scapegoat dolls you are having a first hand experience with healing your pain. In the process you examine your own wounds, look at your weaknesses and recognize and develop your strengths. When you face and integrate the messages of your disease you allow a healing dimension to emerge - that of the Inner Healer. Making these Shadow dolls is a creative act of healing. It has the potential to increase your awareness of the patterns and energies in you life. Healing doll are symbolic aids that connect to the maker and her creative, intuitive, healing imagination. A Scapegoat doll story
It was pretty obvious that I'm my worst enemy in that regard. Anyway, when I stripped everything away two things surfaced.
1) I've always had an underlying fear of being vulnerable, exposed, judged; people might find the "real me "unacceptable, stupid, awkward, etc. 2) This came as a startling insight while journaling. I was journaling and giving voice to my negative self talk saying things like; "I'm not smart enough, good enough, creative enough, articulate enough, and perfect enough." I suddenly focused on the word "enough". I looked up enough ="sufficient for the purpose, adequate to satisfy a need or calling". Not better than others, not perfect, but sufficient and adequate! I then tried to define my purpose/calling. I decided bottom line; the purpose of my life is to experience living this life as an opportunity to learn, grow, love. I suddenly realized that I don't need to be anything more than my imperfect human self to be sufficient and adequate to meet that purpose and calling. So as long as I can stay open and share the lessons I learn from my fumbling, stumbling journey than I am enough. No other judgment is necessary. As a sidelight to that, I had a deep realization of the insanity of comparing myself to anyone else. Every person has different genes, parents, families, personalities, opportunities, gifts, weaknesses, environments, etc. How can it make any sense at all to compare two people who are so completely different in every way? So the question should be; "Am I sufficient and adequate to learn from this life and share what I learn with others?" NOT, "Do I compare favorably to others?" With all this in mind my doll turned out very simple. A soft, naked (vulnerable) girl tying herself in knots trying to avoid being exposed for whom she really is (imperfect, human), blindfolded (blind) to the fact that she is all she needs to be, which ironically is imperfect and human. 
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