This manual provides an "easy-to-do" picture exercises with the aims of helping people of all ages express, communicate, and deal more effectively with their emotions in everyday life.

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A series of structured "easy-to-do" picture exercises with the aim of helping people of all ages express, communicate, and deal more effectively with their emotions in everyday life are presented in this manual. It is made up of a series of illustrations which are intended to be used as photocopy originals, providing a source of effective ready to use material.

• Contains exercises and pictures specifically designed to ease the process of talking about feelings.
• Helps to promote a new clarity of thought as a first step towards positive action and bring seemingly huge, unmanageable and insolvable problems into a new perspective.
• Offers opportunities to rehearse other ways of functioning by trying out alternatives safely on paper in exercises that can be adapted for any age group and ability.

  Sample ActivityTHE DOOR

  Objective

  The objective of this exercise is to consider the concept of appropriate and inappropriate self-disclosure, ideas of self-protection and healthy defense mechanisms. Specifically, the exercise may enable the participant to explore and identify the aspects of the self which he or she wishes either to disclose, or keep private and protected, and from whom. It may be a particularly useful exercise for participants who have been 'invaded' or abused in some way in the past, who as a consequence feel they have no right to their privacy and boundaries, or for participants who tend to give too much of themselves away to certain people and then feel somehow exposed, or exploited as a result. The exercise can serve to remind such participants of what they widh to protect, and to keep to themselves, until the relationship conditions are safe enough for them to do otherwise.

  Instructions

  Write all the things about yourself which you wish to protect, and not expose in a potentially unsafe environment, behind this door. Then write on the door itself the people who you wish to keep out and who must not see these aspects of you, until or unless you change your mind. (maybe they would humiliate you or laugh at you or misunderstand you if they were to see these aspects of you.)

  Development

  Discussion topic:

  Discuss the concept of self-disclosure generally, how much or how little to give away of yourself and to whom. Discuss the fact that, when people have been abused sexually or physically, they sometimes feel that they have no different needs for personal space in relationships.

  Intimacy and self-disclosure:

  Consider how self-disclosure is an essential prerequisite for desired intimacy. In light of this, participants may also wish to comment on one format for helping people to reach a more contactual, intimate level in conversation, which is for both parties to ask personal questions whilst also offering personal information about themselves. If one element is missing from this, e.g., If one party asks questions but doesn't offer information, or offers information but doesn't ask questions, the likelihood of a high level of safisfying intimacy being reached is far less.

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  INTRODUCTION
  YOUR LIFE
  Life Graph
  Life Path
  The Film of Your Life
  Your Story
  Dream Time
  The Hand
  The Window
  Snakes and Ladders
  Life Times
  WHO ARE YOU?
  The Thought in Your Head
  The Roles You Play
  You and Your Shadow
  The Door
  YOUR FEELINGS
  The Four Feelings
  The Angry Page
  The Grand Exhibition of Bad Feelings
  Your Movement World
  Museum of Loss
  THINGS WHICH CAN MAKE LIFE DIFFICULT
  Hopes and Wants and Things That Crush Them
  Life Crossroads
  The Maze
  Life Luggage
  Life Imprisonment
  The Wall
  Obstacle Course
  The Critic in Your Head
  Good Things You Say to Yourself
  Dig Yourself Out
  Chaos
  Falling
  The Little Things in Life That Get in the Way of the Big Things
  THE GOOD THINGS IN LIFE
  The Festival of Moments
  First Aid Kit
  Suitcase of Valuables
  Diploma Ceremony
  FEELINGS ABOUT PLACES
  The Place of Your Life
  Scrap Book of Six Important Places
  Places of Your World
  The Room
  FEELINGS ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE
  You and an Important Relationship
  Your Personal Universe
  Photograph Album
  People Adverts
  You in Groups
  Invited or Excluded?
  When Being With People is Frightening
  Who is Getting at You and Who do You Want to Get at?
  Unfinished Business
  The Size You Feel
  Wheel of Faces
  Fortifications
  The Givers and the Takers
  APPENDICES
  Glossary
  Sample Exercises
  Bibliography

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