Balance and control… Two components that allow you to keep uncertainty from chaos, which can no longer be contained. Therefore, of course, art therapy also has methods that will provide this process with adequate forms of stabilization.
Any states that we cannot differentiate within us are, of course, some kind of energy that cannot be found, for a certain number of reasons, a structured exit into the space of reality. The more complex this process, the fewer effective methods of introducing psychological assistance.
I want to invite you to color experiments that restore balance and control. This method is based on my favorite scribbles of Donald Woods Winnicott, a British pediatrician and child psychoanalyst. Thus, the “Color in Lace” technique allows you to get rid of tension and take it under conditional control, switch it with the help of sensorimotor activity.
The technique is recommended from 4 years:
⁃ hyperactive children;
⁃ with neurotic symptoms of various forms of manifestation;
⁃ for compulsive behavioral symptoms.
Necessary materials:
⁃ watercolor paper;
⁃ watercolor paint;
⁃ markers.The client is asked to choose several colors that stabilize his condition, and apply pre-moistened paper in a chaotic manner so that they like to be combined on paper. Let dry or speed up this process with a hair dryer and circle the joints of the color combination with markers, you can use various colors, especially marker pens, gold or silver paint.
The resulting patterned effect after produces creates a well-organized space, the moment the stroke returns control.
After the creative process, you can ask:
1. What did you especially like?
2. What was valuable in the process?
3. What changes would you like to make?
4. What thoughts and feelings arise?Great exercise for group work.
Can be recommended for decorating artbooks and fairy tales, collages and card making. Therefore, if a person has a desire to write more individual words on this completed drawing, it can be argued that important processes of tension integration have taken place.©️Victoria Nazarevich 2022
©️Victoria Nazarevich, Ukraine, 2022, Color in Lace technique
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