Torn life

Tearing paper – what does that do to you? What feelings and thoughts do you get? How do you then respond to these feelings and thoughts through your actions? An experiential exercise. But that’s not all – I then ask them to make a project with the paper scraps they have made.

She goes to work and tears the brown sheet in half.
The black scraps are glued to the paper, and then a white thread runs along various scraps.

During the debriefing she says:
“The black fragments are different situations in my life, experiences, events. And so following the white line, I encounter different situations.
Now I’m here,” she says, pointing to the large scrap that holds the two brown pieces of paper together.
“My life has been torn in half, here is the war. And I don’t know how I’m going to get through this and where I will end up. That is why the right part of the paper is still empty.”

Uncertainty, fear. The others recognize the feeling.
And yet, she got some rest this session. She has shown where she is now. And instead of being very busy with it in her head, it is now on the table in front of her. She can take some distance.