Group Rules

Intro: Roadmap of an Expressive Arts Drama Therapy Session

Importance of choice making

Scripts
Warmup (act one)
Body of Session (act two)
Closure (act three)

Story of sand tray object chosen by a psychoanalyst at Linda

Cunningham class

Spectrogram

I have experience facilitating expressive arts exercises I do not

have experience facilitating expressive arts exercises

I prefer to go into a session with some kind of a plan I prefer to

go into a session without a plan

I consider myself a creative person - I dont consider myself a

creative person

I prefer to work with imagery and metaphor I prefer to work

with concrete real life situations

Proceed with caution - Training in expressive arts and drama therapy,

tracking developmental readiness, attention to transition, building flow
of session, gauging interest in individuals and groups, degree of
activation

Maps are used for navigating (Waze)

Maps have legends and symbols

Social Atom

Symbols can be shapes, lines, words, pictures, stories

Exhibitions often include cultural artifacts, an Exhibition of objects from

an archeological excavation for example, or works from a specific
designer, or a movie as in the recent Hunger Games Exhibit at the
Palace of Fine Arts.

Museum of loss, museums are sacred, holding objects of historical

significance, often from doing disparate sources.

Descriptions for work in assessment, treatment, termination

Basketball Court
Tower (skyscraper or castle)
Village
City
Amusement Park

Tree
River
Forest
Planet

Heart
Brain
Body

Social Atom

Gallery of Strengths
With sculpts

Exhibition of Coping Skills

With sculpts

What are you doing?

Two concentric circles, introductions, self disclosure - favorite color,

favorite snack food or dessert, favorite book or movie, an alternative
city, an alternative career, something in your refrigerator right now, a
task you've been putting off or something you know you should do but
haven't yet started or finished, a prized possession

(For someone with an eating disorder discussions related to food may

be challenging, for hoarders identifying a single possession could be a
challenge, for someone experiencing overwhelm and self doubt
naming a task could be a challenge.