Exercise “Map of my inner world”

Purpose: formation of ideas about oneself; awareness and expression of feelings. Materials: paper of different formats; paints, brushes; a set of pencils / felt-tip pens / crayons; various geographical maps.

Description of the exercise:

Before you lie various geographical maps.
As you can see, they can tell us about how the continents, oceans, seas, mountains are located; about the features of nature; about the structure and development of cities; about different peoples. The map reflects everything that people could discover and study. Although once our Earth was completely unknown, people knew little about what surrounds them. But all this is the outer world.
And there is another world. The world is internal. Each person has his own – amazing, unique, and somewhere unknown.
Let’s create maps of our inner world. They will be similar to the cards that we looked at today, only all the names on them will be special for us. For example, “ocean of love”, or “mountain of courage”. Let us first denote what we have already discovered in ourselves, we know. And leave room for our further discoveries”
When the cards are ready, arrange “tours” on them for each other.

When viewing, pay attention to:

– what prevails on your cards: what feelings, states, colors;
– what was chosen “route” of advancement on the map, from what place the journey began and where it ended;
– what areas were left for further discoveries; what kind of discoveries would you like to make;
– ask yourself what was the most difficult to portray, as well as share your difficulties, if any.
– at the end of the tour, ask if everything turned out as planned? Would you like to change something? What did you like most about your map, and the map of another? How are your cards similar and how are they different?

Note: Try to keep the work with the cards in the following days. Let them remain in sight for this, so that you can always add something, change something. It will be good if you periodically again conduct “excursions” for each other and pay attention to what has changed in the perception of the map.