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Learn to RELY on yourself and ALLY with others.
The changes required to transform ideas into action may often feel daunting or even unachievable. In this section you will learn about perosnality traits that you can rely on to guide you through difficult times, as well as resources outside of your self that may be helkpful guides along your journey. As tto the latter, examining models of those who have gone through challenges like their own may of use. For instance...
- Reading stories such as Aesop’s Fables, biblical stories and many myths or legends will reveal metaphorical clues to discovering guideposts that may act as a support along your journey.
- In addition to examining stories, myths, and legends for a better understanding of one’s inner guide, the archetypal functions that surface in one’s dreams may provide metaphorical direction that might not otherwise be conscious.
Week 3: Meeting the Mentor
Focus: Identifying support systems (mentors) and learning new skills to face challenges.
- CBT Focus: Understanding how mentors and supportive relationships influence thought patterns and behaviors.
- Assessment Tool: Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) to explore unconscious influences and inner struggles.
- Expressive Arts Activity:
- Children: Draw or create a character representing a mentor in their life (a parent, teacher, or friend) and explain how this mentor supports them.
- Adults: Write or visualize a mentor in their life and reflect on the guidance they’ve received.
- Experiential Family Therapy Activity: Family members role-play different support figures and discuss how each person can help in difficult situations.
- Executive Functioning Homework Assignment:
- Children: Work with the parent to identify three areas where the child can improve by asking for help from their mentor or family.
- Adults: Reflect on a recent challenge and identify who acted as a mentor. Use this to guide how you’ll approach future challenges.
Self-Help Assignment for Week 3:
- Parent-Child Attachment Activity: Create a Mentor Storybook where the child or adult writes or draws about a mentor in their life, detailing a specific moment when this mentor provided guidance.
- Executive Functioning Activity:
- Children: Identify three moments during the week when they asked their mentor (parent, teacher, or friend) for help, and reflect on how it improved their ability to handle the situation.
- Adults: Reflect on the role a mentor or trusted person played in helping them manage a recent challenge, and write down how they can ask for help in the future.