Body Mapping for Difficult Life Experiences

活动信息

• 指令
  1. Identify a difficult experience you have had or are going through currently. 例如, this could be an illness or health diagnosis, 在成绩或财务上挣扎, 与家庭成员分手或争吵, 或者担心你的未来.
  2. Create a body map by drawing an outline of a body that captures a reflection of your own body. 这可能是一个平均值, 脂肪, or thin body; a distorted body with a giant head 和 tiny body; a body with disjointed pieces, 例如. You might consider drawing your body in a particular posture, such as with h和s on hips or hunched at the shoulders.
  3. Use the supplies to draw 和/or cut out images 和 words from the magazines that reflect 和 affect the stories that comprise your difficult experience 和 where 和 how it lives in your body.

   

  Here are some ideas to get you thinking about what to map onto your body:

  Where do your challenges, pain, shame, 和 apologies related to this experience live on your body?

  自爱在哪里, 力量的来源, 快乐, 和 celebrations related to this experience live in your body?

  什么情绪, 积极和消极, do you feel related to this experience 和 where do they live in your body? Write the names of the emotions on the body map or draw an image that captures them. 它是什么颜色的?? 是什么质地的??

  What metaphors can you use to visually capture the emotions related to this experience? 例如, a fire coming out of the heart could represent a burning desire. A river flowing out of the eyes could represent how grief lives in your body. An ‘X’ over the mouth could represent how your body has been silenced.

  Consider different interactions with others, 不和谐的时刻, or turning points that make up the story of this difficult experience. 它们会出现在你身体的哪个部位.

  What are thoughts 和 feelings related to this experience that occur outside or around the body itself? Who or what is on the outside looking in? What messages from others impact the body? How do you think the body appears to the world?

  If you were to make a “key” for the map, what would it include? What does each color/texture/visual represent?

  你的身体图的标题是什么?

  查看主体图示例

• 反映的问题

  If you were to explain your map to someone, what would you tell them?

  How does your body map affect 和 reflect what it means to be going through your difficulty experience?

  How does your body map illustrate what it means to be a woman, dis /健全的, BIPOC, 酷儿, 或者性别非二元, 例如?

  How do your 特权 or lack of privilege impact how you experience your challenge?

  How can you use your map to (re)story this or other challenges you may face in your life?

• 锻炼的替代品
  • Use a large art paper roll instead of a small piece of paper to make a life-sized body map.
  • 而不是做个人身体图, make a community body map along with those who have experienced a shared difficult experience.
  • Rather than using paper for the body map, sew a doll or repurpose Barbies or action figures.
  • Instead of focusing on one specific “difficult experience,” create a body map that reflects one’s life experiences 和 body over a lifetime.
• 额外的资源

  建议阅读资料:

  The Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self Love 

  代替身体记分 

   

  支持资源:

  DUhelp 

  杜红色文件夹 

  DU员工资源 

  叫Blackline 

  项目让 

   

  引用: 

  Malchiodi C. A. (2020). Trauma 和 expressive arts therapy: Brain, body, 和 imagination in the healing process. 纽约:吉尔福德出版社. 

作者(年代)

艾琳·K. Willer, Ph.D. 

Director of 教师 Innovation, 4 d的经验 

传播学教授 

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