Module 5 – Art therapy and storytelling exercise

  • How can you use storytelling?
  • What is storytelling?
  • How do you do a storytelling artifact exercise?
  • With which target group can this be used?
  • Associations with the artifacts?
  • Restore- do you want to move them around?
  • Is there anything that can contribute to the narrative?
  • What things do you need?

Benefit for practitioners:

  • Can explain why storytelling is relevant in trauma treatment
  • Can explain the principles of True Storytelling
  • Can facilitate the exercises based on own professionalism and ethics

The module contains

  • Intro to True Storytelling and re-story processes
  • Intro to together-telling and indigenous storytelling
    • Principle 1: Telling now and what is valued
    • Principle 2: Stories that give energy
    • Principle 3: Creating new self-narratives
    • Principle 4: Having a sense of timing and the power of place
    • Principle 5: Helping one’s own narrative on its way
    • Principle 6: To stage one’s new self-narrative
    • Principle 7: Being in processes and caring

Read our article on story telling in trauma processing here.

Read about the use of artefacts in storytelling and trauma processing here.