Little Wilds: Dollmaking in Expressive Arts Therapy

Date: Friday August 8, 2025
Time: 8:30am–12:30pm Pacific Time
Location: NWCEAI Studio: 1631 15th Ave. W. Ste 305 | limited to 15 participants
Available CEs: 4
Facilitator: Jennifer Levine, MFA & Sibel Golden, PhD, LMHC, REAT
Cost: $135.00

Registration Deadline: Tuesday August 5, 2025

The creation and use of dolls in Expressive Arts Therapy offers rich healing prospects. The opportunity to create a doll form offers a mindful process that can help to externalize feelings and experiences. Therapeutic applications including processing grief, reviewing childhood experiences, identity construction, attachment issues, and complex trauma, to name a few. Bringing the doll into form or “being” is a creative process that brings together so much of what is available in the expressive arts approach: the visual and tactile; working with metaphor and symbolism; play, storytelling, and enactment.

In this workshop participants will engage in a simple, hands-on process and learn to turn a few basic supplies into soft sculpture doll creations. Through an open and free creative process, you will discover the many characters just waiting to “be born” through your hands and imagination!

This process can easily be taught to children grades 3 and up but is not just for children!
No art-making experience is necessary.

Learning objectives
Participant will learn how the Expressive Arts process supports psychological safety and creative freedom.
Participant will learn a simple, hands-on process to create dolls with basic materials.
Participant will learn how to engage in a meaningful personal narrative process to bring their doll to “life” and tell its story.
Participant will learn how the creation of dolls can be of value in a variety of therapeutic contexts.
Required Materials
All materials are included in studio!

Northwest Creative & Expressive Arts Institute Cancellation & Refund Policy

Earning Continuing Education Credits

To receive a CE Certificate for completion of this workshop, you must officially register, attend the workshop in its entirety and complete an evaluation form after the workshop. The evaluation form is emailed to you by the following Friday of the workshop. After completing & submitting the evaluation form, a CE Certificate will be emailed to you within 5-7 business days.

Who is eligible to receive CEs?

• School Counselor/Teacher (OSPI) Approved by the Washington State Office of Public Instruction as a “Washington State approved clock hour offering workshop.”
• This workshop offers Continuing Education credits for Mental Health Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Licensed Social Workers.
• If you are outside of Washington State, we advise that you check with your state licensing board to confirm that they accept NBCC Approved CEs. 

Northwest Creative and Expressive Arts Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists. #CAT-0123.

Northwest Creative & Expressive Arts Institute (NWCEAI) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7104. Programs that do no qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Northwest Creative & Expressive Arts Institute (NWCEAI) is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.