CLASSES

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CLASS DESCRIPTIONS

Multi-Media Art Doll Making 
Come immerse yourself in dollmaking.  You will learn about and experiment with and clays, fibers, body structures and parts, fabrics, wrapping and embellishment, faces and face molds, and how to put them all together to make an art doll. You will play with possibilities and practice dollmaking skills.  You will leave class with enough skills to continue to make dolls on your own. 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 personal 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 $150 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 or more 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.
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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

2012 Class Schedule

February 4 and 5
Playing with Visual Journaling
Play with materials and learning
Saturday 9:30 am - 5:00 pm 

Burrow in and immerse yourself in the journaling process
Sunday 9:30 am - 3:00 pm

March 17 and 18
Mixed Media Flat Dolls, Paper Dolls,  Playful Dolls
Play with materials and learning
Saturday 9:30 am - 5:00 pm 

Burrow in and immerse yourself in the journaling process
Sunday 9:30 am - 3:00 pm

April 14
Introduction to Making Faces with
Maureen Carlson & Barb Kobe
9:30 am - 4:30 pm

April 15
Stick Dolls: Multi-media Art Doll Making
10:00 am - 3:00 pm

in October 2012
Introducing the
Heroine's Journey Creative Journey Game

in Spring 2013
Master Class in Healing Doll Master Class
for healers, counselors, therapist, coaches who want to learn how to bring dollmaking into their healing work.  Must have experienced the Medicine Doll curriculum.

IN MY HOME STUDIO
in Crystal, Minnesota 
(suburb of Minneapolis)

Multi-Media Dollmaking Open Studio
More offerings will be available this summer

Open Studio  Tuesdays 
Tuesday 
$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