I was not expecting to do this exercise during this seminar. However, I really enjoyed it because of how therapeutic it was. Drawing these three different symbols/shapes in order to create an image helped me to reflect back onto my life. It was such a simple task, but it definitely made me consider my relationships with family members, friends, and with myself. I cannot imagine that everyone took it as seriously as I did because it was just a fun exercise, but I could not help but to really think about what I wanted to draw. I wanted it to mean something to me.
It was really interesting because the brief interpretation was actually pretty accurate. My drawing depicted my family. The two circles that connected showed our unity and relationship, especially with my brother, but the colors I chose to use help to show how there is conflict and concerns about one another. Furthermore, the area shaded around the two circles was supposed to be an important person, like my mom, who helped to connect us and keeps us stable. The only aspect about the interpretation that
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It was hard to admit to myself these feelings, but in the end it felt nice to express them in a unique way. I think drawing is a great way to show emotions, and that is why many therapist and artists choose to draw, take photos, or build 3D designs. I honestly rather express certain relationships through minimalistic ways, so therefore using just shapes and colors was perfect. Sometimes words do not help to justify what a person is feeling, but images really help to show everything that is going on in someone’s mind. A person can put down their writing utensil and let their mind and hand do all the work. It is also nice because sometimes a person does not even need to lift your hand up. They can just make interconnecting lines and, which makes everything feel so continuous. In addition, I liked how abstract this exercise
Over a three week period a test subject was instructed to come to the exercise physiology lab once a week. The purpose of the first week was to determine the baseline test data for the participant. During this first week, the subject was asked how many hours of sleep they had gotten the night before and how much they weighed. The subject was then instructed to put on a heart monitor and wear an O2 apparatus and begin running on a treadmill. This treadmill was set at zero incline for the beginning of the run until three minutes had passed. At the three minute mark the incline increased by 2.5%. After this the incline was continuously increased by 2.5% every two minutes. During this process, the VO2 and RER exchange rate of the subject was being tracked through the O2 apparatus. Their heart rate was recorded every 15 seconds. In addition, the subject was asked their perceived exertion at every increase in incline. The subject continued to run until they could not run anymore, at this time they would hop off the treadmill.
Case Study 1: It is important to focus on building intent, rather the focusing on goal setting and action planning. Being that Paul is resistant to change, regardless of his wife’s encouragement to get active it is important to remind your client (Paul) of the benefits of exercise, work on behavior modification, and self-monitoring. Some useful worksheets to use include, the behavioral palate worksheet, decisional balance worksheet, goal setting worksheet, planning worksheet, and focusing on step: 1 action planning.
This book was also one of my first encounters with an important truth of art: that your work is powerful not because you convey a new emotion to the audience, but because you tap into an emotion the audience already feels but can't express.
QP engaged Maunica in participating in a CBT activity geared towards emotions and feelings. QP explained to Maunica that the activity will help her with identifying emotions, examine the role emotions and feelings paly in her life and healthy coping skills. QP explained to Maunica what feeling and emotions means. QP asked Maunica to provide examples of feelings and emotions people experience. QP assisted Maunica in identifying some of the feelings she experience. QP asked Maunica to act out some emotions she has. QP explained to Maunica that feeling emotions, expressing emotions, and not expressing them influence behaviors and actions of a person. QP explained to Maunica that it is important to learn how cope with emotions and how to express
I did not really know what to do for the diagram, and will admit that I had
The first time I read it, I was unsure about the meaning and how the images interacted. However, I did not feel deterred by this. Rather, I was eager to go back and try to string things together. I think this was due to the fact that all of the images were very concrete and accessible, allowing for me as a reader to navigate them quite familiarly. You also have a mix of details the speaker knows or seems to be lacking (i.e. there was a wedding there once I do not know whose). Near the end, you provide a realization, writing “it was my parents there was a chocolate cake.” This realization is followed by a stanza that seems to describe the death and burial of the speaker’s dog. In turn, with a lot of the negative, even morbid, imagery you provide, the poem seems to represent a loss of innocence for the speaker. However, it did take a lot of thought for me to come to this conclusion, and I am still not truly confident in if this is meaning you intended. If I was very far off from perceiving the meaning, you may want to think about how your lines interact to provide
I shared with the group when we had the “tattoo event” on November 10th that I really wanted this tattoo. This is incredibly personal for me and after reading a young college student’s blog last June, I was moved to tears. Her story had a huge impact on me that I find difficult to put into words. I wasn’t aware of the Semicolon Project until after I finished ready this young lady’s blog. I read more about the Semicolon Project and something clicked in my head….My Story ISN’T over! I choose not to end. I have many pauses, some much
She reminded me that she still had some old drawings from elementary school in her room. Together, we looked through them and laughed at some of our earliest and worst works. At the time, we thought we were amazing. And we were pretty good, for our age. But looking back, I realize that over the years I’ve gained so many skills through practice. Color, shading, composition, you name it. Through practice, both of us have improved dramatically over the years. This really made me think about how different I will be even a few years from now. If I changed that much in such a short period of time, It’s inspiring to think about how much my style will change over the next
There are several elements in this painting which may be difficult to interpret but may have meaning, such as; the headdress on the ground, the horse on the flag, the two men in different style and colored clothing, the smoke that appears much darker, and the two men pointing away from the scene, the wind direction being portrayed differently.
I like the detail of this conceptual map as it is representative of numerous components that can contribute to or impact learning. Being colored coded and providing a key assists one in identifying the varying categories of the components. I do wonder if some of the rays could have been arrows, indicating an impact that is two ways or mutual impact instead of one being one way. For example, maybe course implementation impacts the mathematics knowledge for teaching as well as the opportunities to
...tion and the inter-rater reliability is high. As an art therapist, I see that the drawings themselves provide an entry into the opportunity for dialogue about what is going on in the world of the client.
The arts have influenced my life in amazing ways. Throughout my life, art has been the place I run to and my escape from the world. As I’ve grown older, art has become so much more than that. Every piece of art I create is a journey into my soul. It’s a priceless way to deal with my emotions and my struggles. I create art not only because I enjoy it and because I want to, but because I have to. Somewhere deep inside there is a driving force, urging me to put my heart down on paper. I become emotionally attached to each of my pieces because they are like dashes on the wall marking my growth. Each one is the solution to a problem I have dealt with and overcome.
...at I get from the painting is that the men are getting a mirror image of them self’s, that makes them see what they are afraid of. In turn when I see the painting it allows me to see my fears. I felt that my fears changed with in two days of being in the program. I loved meeting new people and having new teachers.
I decided to represent the words “graceful,” “talented,” and “strong” in the form of a dancer due to my strong connection between those words and my history in dance, as that is where I most commonly heard those words used. I then depicted the phrase “you can do it” next to an image of weights, as I associate the phrase with both mental and physical strength, and overcoming difficult obstacles. I also utilized an image of a mirror to include the words “regal,” and “beautiful,” with a focus on the words “kind,” “powerful,” “creative,” “brilliant,” and “unique” because all of these words are ways in which people have described my personality or physical appearance or my personality. Thus, I see those words as what others would have me see in the mirror, with me focusing on the personality traits rather than physical traits, as that is what I view as more important. I then used an image of a person smiling to hold the words “safe,” “helpful,” and “capable” due to the joy that being all of these things brings me; as I enjoy helping people and making them feel safe in a situation in which they otherwise might not. Finally, I decided to portray the phrase “it’ll be okay” on top of an image of a
was given to draw something, it was an easy grade that did not require any effort.For me,