ART THERAPEUTIC TECHNIQUE: “9 SMALL MANDALA”

(according to A. Korobkin)
Purpose: correction of alexithymia, work with feelings and emotions.
Work algorithm:
1. The participant of the exercise is offered 9 small circles with a diameter of a tea glass and one large circle with a diameter of A2 format.
2. The psychologist suggests in turn to paint over small mandala circles based on the name of emotions and feelings, for example:
1 circle – “sadness”,
2 circle – “surprise”,
3 circle – “fear”,
4 circle – “loneliness”, etc. – in the end, try to offer positive emotions for painting.
The set of emotions for painting the mandalas is selected by the psychologist individually according to the current situation of the teenager.
3. Then you can say when he experienced this or that emotion, where in the body he felt it, etc.
4. Then a large circle is taken – a mandala, and on it the psychologist asks to place small mandalas, as he would like. Mandalas are glued, creating a composition on a large circle. The options can be very different, but we tell the child that “any composition is good, we will work with any mandala.”
Conclusion: This technique is very useful in working with emotions and the body. If you repeat it at the beginning and at the end, you can very clearly see a change in the energy of emotions.