ABSTRACT

Draw on Your Emotions is a bestselling resource to help people of all ages express, communicate and deal more effectively with their emotions through drawing. Built around five key themes, each section contains a simple picture exercise with clear objectives, instructions and suggestions for development. The picture activities have been carefully designed to help ease the process of both talking about feelings and exploring life choices, by trying out alternatives safely on paper. This will help to create clarity and new perspectives as a step towards positive action.

Offering a broad range of exercises which can be adapted for any ability or age from middle childhood onwards, this unique book explores a range of emotions surrounding a person¹s important life experiences, key memories, relationships, best times, worst times and who they are as a person. This is an essential resource for therapists, educators, counsellors and anyone who engages other people in conversations that matter about their relationship to self, others and life in general.

This revised and updated second edition also contains a new section on how to use the superbly emotive The Emotion Cards (9781138070981) to facilitate deeper therapeutic conversations.

chapter

Introduction

part |23 pages

Your life

chapter |2 pages

Film of key moments

chapter |2 pages

Your life as a book

chapter |3 pages

Mind worlds

chapter |2 pages

The window

chapter |2 pages

The snakes and ladders of life

chapter |4 pages

Your life as a place

chapter |2 pages

Life changes

part |22 pages

Your feelings

chapter |2 pages

Key feelings

chapter |3 pages

Museum of loss

chapter |3 pages

Museum of shock states

chapter |3 pages

The grand exhibition of resentments

chapter |2 pages

Museum of hurt

chapter |2 pages

The angry page

chapter |2 pages

Worries as life’s spoilers

part |19 pages

The things that make life difficult

chapter |2 pages

The encouragers and discouragers

chapter |3 pages

It’s all too much

chapter |2 pages

What’s weighing you down?

chapter |3 pages

A better life or staying put?

chapter |4 pages

Life as an obstacle course

chapter |3 pages

Self-talk: criticism or compassion

part |13 pages

The precious things in life

chapter |2 pages

The festival of moments

chapter |3 pages

First Aid Box

chapter |2 pages

Gallery of assets

chapter |2 pages

The people I have known

chapter |2 pages

Scrapbook of eight places

chapter |2 pages

Diploma ceremony

part |25 pages

Feelings about the people in your life

chapter |2 pages

You and an important relationship

chapter |2 pages

People adverts

chapter |2 pages

You in groups

chapter |3 pages

Invited or excluded?

chapter |2 pages

The givers and the takers

chapter |3 pages

Unfinished business and bad endings

chapter |2 pages

The size you feel

chapter |3 pages

Fortifications

chapter |3 pages

The help garden