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Holiday Special & 2023 Healing Doll Way class

11/29/2022

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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 bkobe@healingdollway.com. 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 bkobe@healingdollway.com
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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
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How to Make Your Own Healing Dolls

7/27/2022

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Want to learn how to make your own?

Are you willing to explore, play, experiment and l
earn 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.
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I will be on a zoom call on July 28 and talk about the class. Here are the details.

​You are invited to come to a How to Make Your Own Healing Dolls Zoom Call on Thursday, July 28 at noon central time US.
I will be talking about the online class, answer questions and show some of my dolls. Here is the link Barb Kobe is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: How to Make Your Own Introduction
Time: Jul 28, 2022 12:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86558500439...
Meeting ID: 865 5850 0439
Passcode: Howto22



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Why Make a Scapegoat (Shadow) Doll

4/29/2021

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A figurative image I saw at a thrift store near me.
In The Healing Doll Way book I talk about a doll tht symbolizes going into the dark or the shadow doll. On page 115 I write:
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"A scapegoat is an image you associate with your pain. It is am image of whom or what you blame, or whom or what should be punished for your problem or problems. In ancient rituals, the scapegoat was the sacrificial animal upon which people put thier fears, sins, illnesses, or whatever they needed or wanted to remove from the community. When it was banished, they believed it took away the negativity ascribed to it."
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 imaginatio
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A Scapegoat doll story

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​Here is a Scapegoat doll story from Marla, a previous online Medicine Doll group's member
I finally completed my scapegoat. She ended up pretty much as I had imagined. I kept feeling like she needed to have a soft body so I made her out of cloth. This was challenging because I didn't have any pattern, so I had to guess about everything. I spent a lot of time before I started thinking and journaling about obstacles that have held me back throughout my life.

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?"
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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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2020 Stick Doll Making Class

7/1/2020

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I am offering a Stick Doll class in July and August.
Go here for details   
https://www.healingdollway.com/2020-stick-dolls.html

Making Healing Dolls with Sticks
Each art and healing doll is made with a certain kind of energy that becomes a journey of discovery. This energy develops and intensifies as the doll takes shape and forms.
Michael Samuels and Mary Rockwood Lane, from their book, Creative Healing, pose the question and relate the answer:
“What is this energy? Chi, prana, kundalini, God’s breath, acupuncture energy meridians, chakras, the life force? It has been described throughout all time. It is an integral part of the human experience. Because art acts at the level of the spirit, because art is the language of the spirit, energy is involved. Perhaps the simplest metaphor for how art heals is that it frees our body’s healing energy to flow…unites with the deep source; and energy is released…”
Your stick dolls can be healing dolls. Making your stick doll is a healing action that is intimate in nature. When you create a stick doll/ healing doll you are creating an image of a responsive, loving spirit that moves through your heart, mind and hands to show or teach you something, it may be a sign or clue on a your healing life journey. Your stick doll is infused with your energy as you played with the materials and completed her. When you hold her in your hands and witness her beauty I invite you to take in your connection to your creative power through her, May you feel blessed every time you gaze at her.


  • You can’t make a perfect looking doll when you use sticks. Sticks come in all kinds of shapes, sizes, thicknesses and colors. These qualities invite you, the maker to play with what is in front of you.

  • The natural materials bring a certain sacredness to the artistic process, that is distinct from painting and drawing. The energy from these objects bring spirits from the shamanic ritual dimension and or a spiritual dimension. Things from nature are like talisman, they are embodied inspirited objects that carry and keep the forces that gave birth to them. These forces and energies can guide and inspire your artistic creation.

  • While gathering be a sensitive participant in the physical, natural world. Mindful gathering has to do with appreciation and attentiveness to the expressive qualities of these things in their natural habitats. It is about honoring the spirits of nature and carrying those things back with you. And after the making, these gathered natural items will add meaning and story to your stick doll. She will be a Talisman of your connection to nature and will be a reminder of your creative experience of moving through nature – collecting, gathering and receiving.
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Book Awards and Summer Special

7/26/2019

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On June 21, 2019 I attended the Next Generation Indie Book Awards at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC. My book was the international winner in the category of Body, Mind and Spirit and a finalist in Overall Book Design-Nonfiction. What an honor!
I also attending the National Library Association Conference and did a book signing and interview.
I created an unusual business card for the event. A set of 12 wisdom cards with doll images and wisdom on the front.
Check out my
Award Winning Summer Special

Buy my book from me and you will receive a signed copy, with awards stickers and a Deck of 12 cards and SHIPPING INCLUDED  all for $29.95
​Send me an email to bkobe@healingdollway.com if interested
Special ends August 31, 2019 or
until all cards decks are gone 
40 remaining.
If you want to purchase a set of the cards
$12.00 US
$15.00 Canada
$20.00 outside of US
includes Shipping

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Reminder: If you have purchased a copy of The Healing Doll Way, you can be a member of the Healing Doll Way Private Book Club on Facebook. Go to the group and ask to join or contact me at bkobe@healingdollway.com
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Healing Doll Way News and Book Awards

5/17/2019

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My book, The Healing Doll Way: A Guided Process Creating Art Dolls for Self-Discovery, Awareness and Transformation (published by Beavers Pond Press) won two Next Generation Indie Book Awards.
Winner under catagory of  Body, Mind and Spirit NonFiction and
Finalist for Best Overall Design Non-Fiction

I am hoping to attend the awards ceremony in Washington, D.C. on June 21, 2019.

The Next Generation Indie Book Awards is the largest international book awards program for indie authors and independent publishers. In its thirteenth year of operation, the Next Generation Indie Book Awards was established to recognize and honor the most exceptional independently published books in over 70 different categories, for the year, and is presented by Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group (www.IBPPG.com ) in cooperation with Marilyn Allen of Allen O'Shea Literary Agency.

Selling Internationally

You can now purchase my book from anywhere in the world through www.amazon.uk and www.bookdepository.com. If you live outside of US and want a signed copy and receive within 6 to 10 days, contact me for a special discount for sales outside US.    bkobe@healingdollway.com
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Kobe Feeling Dolls

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They are back! You may have known them as Numbfull and the Fulls. Their new name is Kobe Feelings Dolls.
I have found someone to sew them. There are two new characters: Love and Golden Child. New, updated User's Manual and Coloring Masters. Stay tuned. I'll let you know when everything is ready to go.
​www.KOBEfeelingdolls.com

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  • Home
    • What Are Art Healing Dolls
  • About
  • BOOK
    • Forward
    • Pages from the book
    • Reviews
    • Gallery
  • STORE
  • CLASSES
    • Healing Doll Way Class >
      • 2023 Details HDWay
      • HD Way Costs
      • HD Way Q & A
      • What Students Say
      • 2022 HDWay Gallery
    • 2023 HDWay Private Class >
      • 2023 Open Studios
      • Extra FILES
    • 2022 HDWay Private Class >
      • 2022 Open Studios
  • HDWAY STORIES
    • Suzanne Banay Santo
    • Heroine - Inner Selfie
    • Guardian Stories >
      • The Making of My Moth Doll
    • Talisman Stories >
      • Kobe Pelvic Floor Talisman
      • Cindy's Talisman
    • Inner Healer Stories >
      • Lanette Inner Healer
    • Spirit Doll Stories >
      • Delphine Spirit Doll
  • Contact
  • BLOG
  • RESOURCES
    • Faces Resources
    • Books that Support Process
    • Doll Making Books
    • CLASS SUPPLIES