Paths-Roads. Metaphor of life"s journey (set of 112 cards and instructions)

The set includes:
- 80 cards with images (photos)
- 32 cards with words
- instruction.
The set includes photos with highways, highway, roads, paths and completely off-road. In addition, it has small cards with words and phrases. All this is a tool for the work of a practical psychologist, called metaphorical cards. Maps can be used in counseling, psychotherapy, coaching, in group and individual work with children and adults.
In detail about the rules, strategies and techniques for using metaphorical cards in the work of a psychologist, written in the book of Katz, E. Mukhamatulina "metaphorical maps. Guide for a psychologist ", here is characterizing the possibilities and basic rules of work briefly. How do metaphorical cards work? Why do we love them? During the course of life, people accumulate many visual images in memory. Come on, these images generate a variety of feelings, a meeting with them is a meeting with itself in various life planes: temporary (in the past and present, in the imaginary future), emotional (happiness-love-grief), interpersonal. In an implicit form, metaphorical maps contain many messages reflecting the subconscious intentions and values ​​of the person considering their, and the same picture carries different meanings for different people. When a person does not speak directly about himself, but turns to visual images, he is less defended, the cards open to him a nontrivial perspective for analyzing life. "Ways-roads" - a new original set "dynamic" cards. It allows you to work with the images of movement, aspirations, speeds, achievements, prohibitions and ideals. Its most productively use in situations when the client is experiencing a crisis, it is before the need to choose, begins some kind of activity, formulates new goals, etc. We are familiar to thinking about life as a way, and associated with an expensive picture in each of us respond to experiences. Many images are associated with the road: braking, sudden stops, dangerous turns, meetings and parting, choosing a path, travelers, separation from parents, growing, finding independence ... Despite our wonderful features, metaphorical cards are not a medicine, but research tool and Psychotherapy. By themselves, they do not give answers, but help to ask meaningful, current issues. The psychological meaning of working with cards is that a person expresses its attitude towards the image available on the map, analyzes the emerging associations, relates with actualizing experiences, memories. Maps can choose both arbitrarily (having the opportunity to consider the images) and blindly (pulling them at random) You can also correlate images with verbal material: give the picture the name arbitrarily or find a suitable card with the word from the set