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PERSONAL FAVORITES:

Intuitive drawing to classical music
Mirroring movements to music
Draw your feeling as a cartoon character . Tell the story of this feeling
Draw fear. Circle it. Draw or write fears in small circle. Draw a bigger circle around.
Draw or write what you can control and who/what can help you at this time in the big circle.
Screen share “What I can/can’t control” for ideas
Rock Problems/Playdoh Problems
Tree of life
Show me your favorite stuffies. Introduce them to mine. They want to play and talk!
M&M questions
Stuffy role-play (parts work, gestalt, parent-child conflicts)

Always start with:

1-“Are you at home?” (get address if not)

2- “Are you somewhere you have privacy to talk?”

3- Movement and breath: breathe in arms open then in. Animal breaths. Chi gong. Mirroring each other.

Screen Share Activities:

Nondirective:

Pen and Paper Activities:

Draw what you are feeling today
Solution Circles (Draw the problem in the middle, solutions in the bigger circle)
Draw your worry: give it a shape, a name. Then give it to the parent. “This is for the adults to hold”
Tree of life: https://dcf.wisconsin.gov/files/cwportal/permanency/pc/pdf/ffe-tree.pdf
Loss: Two pictures- “my family before the death/covid” and “my family after the death/during covid”.. super helpful to see what they identify as the greatest changes in their family units. Positive and negative.
Loss: A raincloud with rain drops. Mindfulness/journaling on the raincloud on dark paper or in dark ink
about covid, what they’ve lost, what they miss, feelings, etc. rain drops cut from colorful paper or in colorful ink and write positive things that have come from it.
Grief:https://indd.adobe.com/view/924b5436-fca0-4a15-901a-9233134766e4?fbclid=IwAR1TExRigT_xtKM4LWA1wRn-P7xWqVFH2ee-EmhcX09m5YKUEAetT7CQC0M

Emotionally Expressive Activities:

Let’s do a puppet play with some of my puppets and some of your stuffies/puppets
Let’s both try to keep our own balloon up
M&M Questions:

Emotionally-Connecting Activities:

Other Directive Activities:

Read a book or find one on youtube and share screen
Playdoh and rock problems. Try to change the color/shape of each.
What are the play doh problems? How can you change?
What are the rock problems? How can you cope?
See you Later Alligator book to print:
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