CLASSES

CLASS DESCRIPTIONS

ART DOLLS OPEN STUDIO
Come immerse yourself in dollmaking.  We will be exploring clays, fibers, glues, fabrics, wrapping and embellishment, faces, body parts, tools. We will play with possibilities, practice new skills, and/ or refine your style. Leave your worries behind and be prepared to get out your box! 

THE DOLLMAKING CIRCLE - 
Retreat Format
A process for personal growth and healing
The act of making a doll can take a person through a process of creative imagination, growth and healing.   This weekend retreat focuses on the growth and healing aspects of dollmaking.  
The Dollmaking Circle is a creative process based on the organizing principle the Native American  medicine wheel. Participants will be invited and encouraged to explore their range of perceptions through the doll they will create and in doing so will reach a deeper understanding of themselves and their dollmaking process.
SAMPLE OF SCHEDULE  
Friday night EAST 7:00- 10:00
Saturday SOUTH 9:00 – 12:00  and 
WEST 1:00-4:00
Sunday NORTH 10:00-11:00   
Witnessing at 2:00 pm

MEDICINE DOLLS - How to Make Healing Dolls for Yourself
On Line Class is $100 
Group is created on yahoogroups, 
full participation required

Weekend Retreat available as Healing Dolls

Purchase the curriculum $50.00

Dollmaking can help you to heal at a physical, emotional, mental and spiritual level.  The essential process of healing yourself with artmaking is one involving creating  change so that you can become more conscious and restore your connection to  your intuition and your soul.  When you are physically ill, in pain, dealing with emotional  issues, or challenged by a life changing event, you can start to heal yourself with art  by opening up to your inner voices, listening to them, and allowing their messages  to emerge.

In the online, 3 month long class, you will make four medicine dolls: a guardian,  a scapegoat, a talisman and an inner healer.  In a weekend retreat setting you will make 2 dolls: a scapegoat and talisman.  Class involves keeping a journal  as well as making the dolls. This work will take you through a creative process toward  a goal of healing an aspect of yourself and/or your life. Your intention drives the process and keeps you focused. Your journal becomes the record keeper and provides a place for you to dialog with your creations.
 
Medicine Dolls is a six-step creative process:

1	Set an intention to keep you focused and guide the process.
2	Make an image of protection.
3	Access an image of the pain/stress/wound/ problem that is blocking you from getting what you want.
4	Release the image through making the art.
5	Transform the painful image into a new image that represents the healing goal - a less stressful, more positive way to  respond to whatever causes  you pain.
6	Make an image that focuses on lessons learned and stands as a symbol of the inner guidance.

Teaching Information 
& Fees

2008 Class Schedule

February 29-March 1 & 2   Creative Journey Game

March 29   Maureen Carlson & Barb Kobe Making Faces

March 30   Embellishment with Barb Kobe

June 13-15   Dollmaking Circle

October 3-5   Dollmaking Circle

November 1   Maureen Carlson & Barb Kobe Making Faces

November 2   Embellishment with Barb Kobe

www.kaleidosoul.com/training.html

CLASSES at VILLA MARIA

18th Annual 
CELEBRATE WOMAN Retreat Weekend  Friday, April 11  7:00 pm - 
Sunday, April 13 3:00 pm

<sup>Growing Spiritual Wings 
to Soar on Winds of Change

This spring, we will explore phases of our transformation with reflections, creative expressions     to acknowledge joys and challenges along the way,        and opportunities to honor our journeys together.           Our weekend will include time for self, time for sharing and community, time for connecting with nature and our Source, and time for creativity and celebration.  
We will experience activities of meditation, journaling, doll-making, collage, poetry, listening, nature-walks, prayer and dialogue throughout the weekend. The wings we intend to grow will free us to more fully embrace and celebrate the spiritual essence of our lives.</sup>

^{Your guides for this journey will include 
Barb Kobe, doll-maker and healing artist;  
Chase Davies , naturalist and environmental guide; and  
Jean Lauer, spiritual director and life enthusiast.}

^{Cost:  $225 for private room, $200 for shared room and 
$125 for commuter fee   
Meals are included.  Registration deadline:  April 1
Contact Jean Lauer (see below)}

Creative Elements Retreat
August 14-18
^{more details to follow}

Villa Maria Retreat and Conference Center
29847 Co. 2 Blvd., Frontenac , MN   55026
Phone:  651-345-4582  Ext. 17
Toll-Free:  866-244-4582
Home Office Phone:  507-453-0576   
Email:    jlauer@hbci.com        Website:   www.villamariaretreats.org

Click Here to see a sampling of students' dollmaking