Draw on Your Relationships : Creative Ways to Explore, Understand and Work Through Important Relationship Issues (Paperback, 2 ed)

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

CHAPTER ONE: 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
? Childhood memories: People as places
? Relationship riches

CHAPTER TWO: 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?

CHAPTER THREE: 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)

CHAPTER FOUR: 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

CHAPTER FIVE: 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

CHAPTER SIX: RELATIONSHIPS AND FEAR  
? Fear of intimacy
? Withdrawal/ Avoidance/ 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

CHAPTER SEVEN:  TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES   
? The ‘When you…I feel’ exercise

? The ‘unfinished sentence’ exercise

? The Like/ Don’t Like it’ exercise

? The empathy game

? Our best and worst times

? Theories of motivation

? Paper conversations

? The art of relationship