First Session
In the first session we use the following creative mediums:
Storytelling
I will tell you a traditional folktale that connects to your theme. The archetypes and motifs of the story will support your autonomous perception of your destiny and the future you wish to create for yourself. As you relate to the archetypes and motifs, they will help you to empower your imagination, to playfully attune your thinking and to interpret and act on your experiences. Whenever we hear a story, we cross a threshold between two worlds: the world of our physical senses and the world of the story. In our soul these two worlds overlap and create a third space of heightened consciousness: the liminal space.
Liminal Space
A feeling of being transported into a world of imagination inspires more responsive thinking and generates new ideas. It helps you to organise stored memories and random information. It enables you to integrate knowledge you have gained through intuition, perception and reason. This means, you can access your inner wisdom, order your inner chaos and recognise adversities and obstacles as your ‘helpers in disguise’. In a liminal state of mind, you experience a new quality in the pattern of your thinking and a consciousness subtly different from your norm.
‘Turn-about’ Conversation
Through conversation you discover and unpack archetypes, motifs and themes and how you relate to them. This discovery builds your attentiveness to what you ‘see’ and don’t ‘see’ in the folktale and what this means to you. This insight creates a chart for your voyage to parallels in your own life. It transforms disjointed personal experiences into a story that flows. It guides you through multiple layers of meaning until you find your depth and it encourages you to be more open to different and developing possibilities and to take positive risks.
Drawing
Using pencils and simple drawings you develop a ‘story map’. Through this drawing you organise and reveal to yourself the hidden structures, paths, dynamics, rhythms and relationships within the folktale and you will begin to relate these discoveries to your life, your question and the story you wish to create for yourself.
Second Session
Storytelling
We revisit the story told in the first session, enliven archetypes and motifs and your imagination. This attunes your thinking to interpret and act on your experiences.
‘Turn-about’ Conversation
In this conversation we further unpack archetypes, motifs and themes, what you see and don’t see in the folktale and though this focus on your own story – the story you wish to create for yourself now. I will guide you through multiple layers of meaning until you find your depth and the different and developing possibilities you seek.
Drawing
Using coloured pastels or crayons you then create your core image, a story image that stands out for you, that that inspires you to delve deeper into the archetypes and themes of the tale and to form questions you might not yet have asked yourself.
Creative Writing
In this step, you are the author and editor of your own story. As you write, this expressive act deepens your insight into a chosen aspect of your life. Writing uses creativity and precision and can clarify your thinking as you grapple with finding the words that best express who you are and where you wish to go. Creative writing stimulates an area of your brain (left hemisphere) not activated by conversation or oral-aural experiences, which means, you benefit from an all-inclusive approach.
Story expresses life as a work of art; Story empowers change
Inquiries: iris@storyvisionsource.com