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If you want to support the Healing with Weaving Community Outreach Project that will help get educate the community about the healing benefits of weaving through workshops and having Frame Loom and Paper Weaving Kits available to the public, please make your donation support here.

Currently, we are not a nonprofit organization but hope it will turn into one soon. Any donations here will go towards Debbie Barrett-Jones's Healing with Weaving Community Outreach Program that includes the making of Frame Loom and Paper Weaving Kits and Workshops and tutorials to help teach these activities.

The first projects will be geared toward getting free kits to patients and their family members and staff at Children's Mercy Hospital, in hopes of reaching out to other medical facilities regionally and nationally. As an MFA student at the University of Kansas in the Visual Art Department, Debbie wants to have these kits available to as many students and staff on campus as well.

Stress and anxiety due to this pandemic have played an enormous toll on almost everyone's mental health. Weaving helps with slowing down, focusing on material, color, and pattern. When you slow down and focus on making something with your hands, you breathe more and this focus helps you think less about your worries.

Weaving and doing something creatively allows you to not look at your phone anxiously as well. The outcome of the finished product is not as important as the process of making. But in the end, you have this weaving that was created during the moments in your life that you chose to slow down and do some healthy self-care.

Your support matters and will help make a difference!! Thank you so much!!

~Debbie

Healing with Weaving