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.