module 5

Module 5 – Art therapy and storytelling exercise

• How can you use storytelling?
• What is storytelling?
• How do you create a storytelling artifact exercise?
• With which target group can this be used?
• Associations with the artifacts?
• restory- do you want to move them around?
• Is there anything that can contribute to the story?
• What things do you need?

Benefits for practitioners:

• Can explain why storytelling is relevant in trauma care
• Can explain the principles of True Storytelling
• Can facilitate the exercises based on their own professionalism and ethics

The module includes

• Intro to True Storytelling and re-story processes
• Intro to together-telling and indigenous storytelling
  • Principle 1: Storytelling now and the valued
  • Principle 2: Energizing stories
  • Principle 3: Creating new self-narratives
  • Principle 4: Having a sense of timing and the power of place
  • Principle 5: Helping your own narrative along the way
  • Principle 6: Staging your new self-narrative
  • Principle 7: Being in process and caring

Read our article on storytelling in trauma processing here.

Read about using artifacts in storytelling and trauma processing here.