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Creativity

8 techniques · 5 approaches
Focusing
Thinking at the Edge
Thinking at the Edge
A systematic method for articulating implicit knowing: when a person feels something important but cannot put it into words. Fourteen steps …
Gestalt
Creative Indifference
Creative Indifference
A state of wise passivity: I allow life, I do not fight, I do not strain, I am simply present. I let myself, the other, the situation BE. Af…
Gestalt
Gestalt Dreamwork
Gestalt Dreamwork
A dream is approached not as symbolism (Freud) but as a projection of the wholeness of the personality. Each element of a dream is a part of…
Gestalt
Gestalt Experiment
Gestalt Experiment
A spontaneous, creative, unpredictable activity that therapist and client co-create in the session to explore something. Not a technique wit…
Gestalt
Monodrama
Monodrama
The client plays all the roles in a scenario, fantasy, or dream. If a dream contains a door, a wolf, and a corridor — the client becomes eac…
Jung
Mandala Drawing / Painting the Unconscious / Expressive Arts in Jungian Analysis
Mandala Drawing / Painting the Unconscious / Expressive Arts in Jungian Analysis
Jung himself drew mandalas daily in 1916–1919, considering them "cryptograms" of the state of the psyche. A mandala (Sanskrit "circle") is a…
SFBT
Three Houses
Three Houses
A visual technique that helps a child and a family talk about themselves through the metaphor of houses: "The house I live in", "The house o…
Yalom
Discovering Meaning
Discovering Meaning
An exploration of Frankl's three sources of meaning: creativity (creating something — work, ideas, art), experience (love, beauty, encounter…
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