My experiences as a child,as a student and from many  years of working with children and grown-ups have no doubt  significantly influenced my creative work. The inspiration has come from  my conviction  that it is import_ant to create prerequisites for interactions and meaningful play. My work  to develop a doll that gives the feeling of a small child resulted in 1996 in the first Empathy Doll. Over the  years, many different dolls and animals have followed, all with one thing in common, they awake human  reactions  and work well as transitional objects in play and therapy. For me personally, it has always been a  great satisfaction that my creative work during my youngest childrens grave illness affords happiness and  consolation to young and old alike. The Empathy Dolls from JOYK is the result of ongoing creativity  and continuous development work.

December 2009, Göteborg, Sweden

Britt-Marie Egedius-Jakobsson

Designer, inventor, teacher

Group and family therapist