INTRODUCTION ¿ How to use this book ¿ Why use drawings and images to speak about feelings? ¿ How to work safely ¿ Key rules and guidelines in helping someone to speak about feelings ¿ About sandplay and how to use it YOU AND YOUR RELATIONSHIPS ¿ You, your relationships, your life ¿ Encouragers and discouragers in my life (past and present) ¿ People in your life, as gardens ¿ The cocktail party ¿ Your relationships as walls, bridges, comfortable sofas & take off ¿ Museum of too alone ¿ My childhood memories: People as places ¿ Relationship riches DEAD, DEPRIVING, DRAINING, DISAPPOINTING RELATIONSHIPS ¿ My Relationship: Take off or stuck on the runway? ¿ To leave or to stay? ¿ The ¿nothing much happening¿ times ¿ A relationship that¿s holding me back ¿ People who energise. People who drain ¿ Too many takers and not enough givers ¿ Am I expecting too much from her/him? ¿ Disappointing relationship or futile quest for perfect mate? LIFE-CHANGING RELATIONSHIPS ¿ People you¿ve been flying with ¿ Flying together as a group ¿ Collecting moments, not things ¿ Oh, how we laugh! ¿ Knights (posing as people) LOVE HURTS ¿ Museum of hurt ¿ When I can¿t reach you ¿ Life after losing a person or their love ¿ The end of a relationship. What now? ¿ Loving someone who isn¿t good at loving ¿ Do I matter to you? ¿ No one listens / too unhelped ¿ Rejected / not wanted / uninvited / redundant ¿ On the outside of the group DAMAGING AND DESTRUCTIVE RELATIONSHIPS ¿ Power over / power under / power with ¿ Toxic shame ¿ Managing conflict badly ¿ Controlled ¿ Emotional baggage ¿ Hidden resentments ¿ So many difficult/annoying people in my life ¿ Anger fuelled by pain from the past RELATIONSHIPS AND FEAR ¿ Fear of intimacy ¿ Withdrawal, avoidance and leaving ¿ Fear of closeness and fear of distance ¿ Fear of being in groups ¿ Fear of being myself in case I am too much ¿ Without a voice ¿ Mistrust TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES TO IMPROVE AND REPAIR RELATIONSHIPS ¿ The art of relationship (for one person) ¿ The ¿when you¿I feel¿ exercise (for two people) ¿ The ¿unfinished sentence¿ exercise (for two people) ¿ The 'like / don¿t like it¿ game (for two people) ¿ The empathy game (for two people) ¿ Our best and worst times (for two people) ¿ Theories of motivation (for two people) ¿ Paper conversations.
Draw on Your Relationships : Creative Ways to Explore, Understand and Work Through Important Relationship Issues