The Healing Doll Way
A Guided Process Creating Art Dolls for
Self-Discover, Awareness and Transformation
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Artist, Teacher, Mentor, Coach, Author
Guiding, modeling, mentoring and supporting women toward reconnecting with their intuition, bodies, emotions and wisdom using creative processes.

Come Home to Your Self
I teach how to make figurative, symbolic, meaningful sculptures and art that allow
​ a woman to embrace, nurture, and connect with her feminine wholeness, wisdom and power.

One doll, 13 stories

What happens to the meaning of a doll when she "poses" with different things?
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Healing Doll Maker and Teacher
A true healing doll does not heal you; the doll simply reflects back to you your innate capacity to heal. She is a reflector, or a loving transparency.

A true healing teacher does not teach you; she does not see you as inherently separate from her. She simply reflects back your own inner knowing, and reminds you of the vastness of your being. She is a mirror, a signpost.

And love is the space in which all of this is possible; love heals, and we learn best in a loving field, no threat of failure, no punishment.
Inspired by adapted from Jeff Foster
http://www.lifewithoutacentre.com/
PictureFinding Pomegrante
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​See the poster I created that tells this doll's story Wounded Healer Poster 
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Barb Kobe
Kobe Healing Artist & Teacher
Video of an art show at Robbin Art Gallery in Minnesota in 2010.

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2019
The Healing Doll Way​
Online In Depth ​Year Long Training starts
January 15, 2019

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2019

October 2019
Albuquerque with Annie Hooten

View my Interview

In September 2017 I was interviewed by psychologist Gunhild Lorenzen for her online summit, Harness Your Creative Power. She is a Gestalt, Art, and Transpersonal Therapist and artist.  
If you didn't get a chance to see the interview or want to see it again.
See it here.
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  In the meantime check out an      article written in Minnesota       
  Women's Press Magazine -
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The Thread of Emotion
Barb Kobe's healing dolls transfer feelings from the inside to the outside.
by Norma Smith Olson
from the article
"She works with archetypes and concepts such as guardians, scapegoats, loving kindness, talismen and inner healers. She uses a process called visual journaling--first creating flat images with watercolor or collage to epict an emotion or a story, and then creating a three-dimensional doll or figure."

"I believe that making a figure--that you can hold in your hand--will mirror some aspects of yourself. It is really more powerful and transformative than making a flat drawing."
Here's an interview from 2013 when I taught at Moontree Studios in Donaldson, Indiana. 

What People say,

“Barb is a creative genius who goes out of her way to produce innovative, quality products.
​ I cannot say enough for her skills and her work ethic! Her skills have helped countless people around the world.”   Kelly Guinan

“Barb is a fabulous teacher who loves to share her many years of experience making whimsical and soulful “dolls”. Her doll sculpting process is a form of creative expression that engages the psyche and brings healing and insight.”   Val Olson, Minneapolis

“She is not only unique, but compassionate, funny and knows exactly how to make learning about yourself a fun experience!”