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DESCRIPTIONS
Multi-Media
Dollmaking
Open Studio
Come immerse yourself in
dollmaking. You will
explore clays, fibers, glues, fabrics, wrapping and embellishment,
faces, body parts, tools. You
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 -
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 RETREAT 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
Contact me at barbkobe@gmail.com
if you are interested and we'll
discuss your questions and options
On Line Class is $100 for one year
Group is created on yahoogroups,
full participation
required
includes curriculum
Ebook/curriculum $50.00 only
Weekend Retreat available
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 one year long online 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 is causes you pain.
6. Make
an image that focuses on lessons learned and stands as a symbol of the
inner guidance.
The
Creative Journey Game
“The
Creative Journey Game©
is an adventure in self discovery and creative problem solving. This
process is a way of identify your journey, of seeing the ongoing thread,
theme or pattern to life’s trek. It permits you to see the linkage
between events and people in a way that provides of meaning about self and
others. This contributes to personal well-being and a greater sense of
direction and control in life. As you design the game board and game
pieces you clarify moments from the past and outline the future.
When you tell a story of your game you link to the past and are able to
see the patterns of your response to life’s challenges and
opportunities. Sharing the story of it with others can help you understand
the context of your life journey.”
Available as Weekend Retreat
and Online Class
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2010 Class
Schedule
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IN
MY HOME STUDIO
in Crystal, Minnesota (suburb of Minneapolis)
Multi-Media Dollmaking Open Studio
New offerings for Summer
Open Studio Tuesdays and Thursdays
Tuesday June 15, 22, 29, July 6, July 13
Thursday June 17, 24, July 1, July 8
Hours: 1:30 to 3:30 pm AND 7:00 to 9:00 pm
$15.00 each visit
$25.00 for first time
(contact me for sliding fee scale)
Maximum participants is five,
please email me barbkobe@gmail.com
or call 763-535-7713
you are interested in coming
One-on-One Dollmaking Coaching
and Teaching available
contact me for details
NEW
ARTbundance Creativity Coaching....
coaching through the artmaking process
Contact me for more information.
Private classes available, call me to
discuss
and/or schedule
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MAUREEN CARLSON'S
CREATIVITY CENTER
www.weefolk.com
CREATIVE JOURNEY GAME
July 9, 10, 11
DOLLMAKING CIRCLE
October 8, 9, 10
DESIGNING YOUR ARTFIELD OF DREAMS
November 12, 13, 14
The Creative Journey Game
Friday night
7:00 – 10:00 pm
Saturday 9:00 – noon 1:30-5:00
Sunday 10:00- noon 1:00-3:00 pm
Sharing of boards and characters at 2:00 pm.
The Creative Journey Game© is a
creative, playful process of self-discovery and insight. You design your
game board and personal game pieces as you play the game. This
creative game process, based on
“The Hero's Journey” can help open doors to self knowledge and
understanding, see patterns and move you through your life adventure of
discovery and awareness.
During this November weekend retreat we will create a collaged Creative Journey
Game board and three-dimensional characters to use to visualize an intention for
2010.
The idea behind this is that when you surround yourself with images of who you
want to become, what you want to happen, where you want to live or vacation,
your life changes to match those images and desires. They add clarity to your
desires, and feeling to your visions.
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