Pot of Childhood Memories (POTS+ Method)

 

A memory is like a tree: rooted in time and growing with it, getting bigger and bigger. Johannes Jensen

It’s never too late to have a happy childhood…

 

Memories, as internal meanings, designate the basis of our behavior and response – it is only an image marked in our minds and associated with some events. In a therapeutic context, memories can be created for tasks that are important to us. And perhaps it makes sense to leave memories only those that will work for our future.

Consider one of the ways to work with childhood memories using the projective technique “Pots +” by Victoria Nazarevich.

 

So, let’s lay out all the images in front of the client and ask them to carefully consider them, associating the image with the vessels in which childhood memories are located, which will help create the future.

Next, discuss in detail with the client the contents of each pot and what moments in life it is connected with, how this will help a happy future. If the memories are not very good in content, then you can get rid of them in any way convenient for the client and fill the pot, if not with memories, then with fantasies that may be useful in the future.

Guide the client through a series of mandatory questions:

1. Why is this particular pot associated with this memory? The answer to this question will give you the opportunity to understand which particular personality structure is responsible for the semantic content of childhood memories.

 

2. Which memory is the biggest and which is the strongest? The answer to this question will provide an understanding of the strength and intensity of the tension associated with this experience of the past and will provide an opportunity to reduce the actual significance of these experiences by other methods of art therapy.

 

3. Which pot and its contents are associated with the most powerful experiences that affect the future? The answer to this question will reveal aspects related to the client’s dominant problem, which contains energy for potential opportunities.

 

4. Which of the people are associated with memories that are stored in pots? The information gained from this question helps to indicate unfinished interpersonal or intrapersonal conflicts, the impact of which is taking resources from the achievements or activities of the present.

 

Try to draw an image on the metaphor “Pots of my memories”

 

In more detail about the projective technique “Pots +” in the distance learning course, where in 2 months you will try out more than 65 techniques (which will be presented to you in video lessons) and learn the entire theoretical and symbolic basis of the images of pots in the technique.

 

Call 067 731 72 65 or email nazarevich.art@gmail.com