Topic of module 2 “Existential crises”

Art therapy support for a client in crisis

 

TOPIC: “Existential Crises”

 

Purpose: art-psychological forms of work in the process of overcoming destructive crisis states at the stages of passing through existential crises. Within the framework of the seminar, the main strategies of possible destructive forms of manifestation of existential crises will be considered. Certain mechanisms and factors of the effective impact of art therapy when working with clients with different root causes of the existential process of personal transformations. The seminar will present art-therapeutic technologies of self-modeling of clients in an existential crisis using the means of creative self-expression.

Expected results

1. Structuring methodological knowledge and ideas about the use of art therapy approaches on various manifestations of an existential crisis.
2. Forms of art-therapeutic work of a psychologist in the system of psychological assistance in crisis conditions.
3. Possibility of personal work of participants in groups.
4. Methodological materials for independent study of the topic.

 

Forms of work: mini-lectures, art therapy forms (associative method, isotherapy techniques (serial drawing), work with metaphorical and thematic maps, visualization, work).

 

Thematic content of the seminar

• Mini-lecture on the topic “Psychology of the meaning of life in history, cultures, religions”
• Methods of art therapy of crisis states of the soul such as: fear, grief, anger, loss crisis – a kaleidoscope of techniques.
• Serial drawing as a transition through existential crises associated with the search for the meaning of life; motivational crises – a crisis of awareness of motivation, a crisis of accepting a motive, a crisis of realizing a motive, a crisis of fixing a motive, a crisis of actualizing a motivation.
• Creation of the self-development art program “My Story”
• Acceptance of crisis changes by the methods of isotherapy “Anti-crisis board” – personal work of group members
• – Associative method in working with anti-crisis programs of the client “Anti-crisis signals” – personal work of group members
• – Art-sharing “Me and successful achievements”

At the end of the program, participants receive a confirmation certificate from the Western Ukrainian Association of Art Psychologists and Art Therapists

Training trainer of the program Victoria Nazarevich Ph.D. in Psychology, Associate Professor of the Department of Developmental and Pedagogical Psychology of Rivne State University for the Humanities, trainer of educational trainings, psychologist of the highest qualification category, member of the board of the Western Ukrainian Association of Art Psychologists and Art Therapists. Additional education: specialized training – “Trainer of educational and thematic trainings”, (Kiev, 1999), training according to the training program “Methodology of youth seminars”, “Moderation” (Kiev, 2000), Isotherapy (Moscow 2011), International project Art-psychotherapy in the framework of the USP (2011).

Registration for the program with coordinators

It will be held depending on the size of the group.