Week 04: Synthesis & Ethics (Days 11-13)

Day 11: Metaphor Maker

Goal: Storytelling through objects.

Activity: "Object Constellations." Participants select three "found objects" (stones, shells, buttons). Object 1: My Challenge. Object 2: My Support. Object 3: My Hope. Arrange them in space and tell the story of their relationship.

Day 12: Intermodal Fusion

Goal: Bridging modalities (Sound to Image).

Activity: "Painting the Soundscape." Play a sequence of varied music (Classical, Jazz, Ambient). Participants paint continuously on long rolls of paper, changing their stroke and color as the music shifts. Then, dance the painting they just made.

Day 13: Ethics Mirror & Boundaries

Goal: Deepening professional ethics and closure prep.

Discussion: "The End of the Canvas." How do we say goodbye? What happens to the art made here? Who owns the story? Discuss dual relationships and the ethics of social media connections post-therapy.

"Termination is not an end; it is the final act of the therapy itself."

The Theory of "Decentering"

Expressive arts therapy uses "Decentering" to move the participant away from their problem-saturated verbal world and into the "Third Space" of the art. In Day 12, we maximize this by constantly shifting modalities, preventing the participant from "getting stuck" in a single thought pattern.

Metaphor Maker Storytelling

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