ABSTRACT
This activity helps the young person to develop a sense of perspective and balance about their past. Talking about difficult memories can bring up emotions of sadness, shock, anger, betrayal, and so on, that are difficult to deal with. This is balanced, however, by a focus on positive memories as well. The stones themselves offer a useful focus for the session — they can be touched and felt. The rough, sharp stones can be held alongside the smooth and special stones to represent how we all have a variety of memories, of stories in our past, that can be held together. If discussing times when the young person was not being looked after well by a carer, it may be appropriate to give messages about how their carer could not have looked after any child at that time in their life.
