Welcome to Drawing Feelings
The Drawing Feelings method offers a gentle approach to exploring and understanding emotions through colour and drawings. This technique is designed to help children and young people express and process their feelings in a supportive and creative environment.
What is the Drawing Feelings Method?
- Art-Based Exploration: Participants use drawing to represent their emotions, including both primary feelings and their opposites. This visual approach helps articulate emotions that might be difficult to express with words.
- Guided Imagery and Visualisation: Each session starts with guided imagery and visualisation exercises, which help participants establish a calm and secure space for exploration.
- Expanded Emotional Vocabulary: Emotion cards and wheels are introduced to aid participants in identifying and naming a broad spectrum of feelings, enriching their emotional vocabulary.
- Physical Sensation Awareness: Physical sensation cards are used to connect emotions with bodily experiences, allowing participants to gain insight into how their feelings are experienced physically.
- Grounding Techniques: Participants engage in grounding exercises to enhance their emotional awareness and ensure a balanced connection between mind and body.
Learning Objectives
- To understand the theoretical foundation of Drawing Feelings and its impact on children’s emotional well-being.
- To explore how to implement core Drawing Feelings techniques, including facilitating non-verbal expression, supportive dialogue, and emotional processing during sessions.
- To explore how to set future goals, based on the emotional energy of now and future self.
- To review how to foster a safe and supportive environment that builds trust and rapport with children.
- To discuss how sessions can be adapted to meet the emotional needs of all children.
Resources
- Affirmations (linked to the core emotions)
- SUD Assessment Form
- Whole Child Assessment Tracker
- BOUNCE – Strips, Fans, and Cards
- Emotion Vocabulary Cards
- Outline and Activities for 8 core emotions
- Physical sensation cards
- Session Outline
- Emotion Wheel
- Plutchik’s wheel of emotions core emotions
- Applied Relaxation Technique Script
- Body Scan Relaxation Script
- 4 Elements Script
- Energy Scale
- Scenarios
Training Duration: 1hr 14 mins
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