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Doll Making: A tool for clients and for personal reflection

Sat 16 Oct

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Allenby Business Park

Doll making can offer a unique creative tool in therapy & in reflective practice.

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Doll Making: A tool for clients and for personal reflection
Doll Making: A tool for clients and for personal reflection

Time & Location

16 Oct 2021, 10:00 – 16:00

Allenby Business Park , Crofton Rd, Lincoln LN3 4NL, UK

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About The Event

In this workshop, Sharon Herriot Art Psychotherapist, Supervisor and Trainer will explore a little of the rich history of dolls, ritual figures and transitional objects as well as considering their use in therapy.

Using creative activities there will be an opportunity to reflect on embodiment, use of dolls to explore bodily responses to trauma, how dolls can hold powerful projections, work with body image and identity and can facilitate transformation.

We will make a ‘Wish Doll’ – a simple fabric ‘no sew’ doll containing a wish, hope or aspiration, hidden by the doll’s maker inside them. These can be made by most people, even those who don’t feel confident at making crafts, though a little dexterity is required.

They can be made with clients (adults or children) to explore hopes, dreams and needs. In the making they can reduce anxiety offering a relaxing binding action to calm the central nervous…

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