Monday, July 11, 2016

COLLECTIVE DRAWING RELEASING WOMEN'S STRUGGLE IN TODAY'S WORLD



Dynamic: Collective drawing: Release a “heavy” experience connected with your “Woman identity” or you “African Woman identity”. Each group will have a common paper and each person will do her own drawing. After a while they can interact with other's drawings. Later on the participants were asked to shared non-verbally about the collective piece of art; finally they shared verbally (great release for many!)

Some feedbacks:


  • It was challenging to start.
  • It was the expression of my painful experiences
  • When I could express the experience in the images, I felt relieved.
  • At the beginning I felt resistance. I did not want to do it, but I said I do not want to get stuck, and then I entered into it.
  • Indeed our drawings were connected.
  • It was difficult to add into the design of the other.
  • I put myself in the place of the other and yet I came to myself.



Some learnings:

  • When we let ourselves be guided by the Spirit, we experience the flow of life.
  • It is really difficult to pass from the head to the heart.
  • Complementarity in the different experiences, yet remaining unique.
  • At times it is difficult to understand what the other is trying to express (body language).
  • Difference experiences and yet we came to a common message, a message of hope, of potentiality:


“A woman who is proud of who she is. She has the right to express herself. She knows her dignity and her place.  She can work and take care of her family. She is happy with her role to be a woman”.

Themes of the different drawings:

  • 'Nature' group: Woman bearer of life and hope in struggles through resilience
  • 'Lavigerie' group: The freedom of an African woman is possible
  • 'Water' group: Journey to fullness of life
  • 'Miséricorde' group:  woman source of life despite of suffocating.
  • 'Pape François' group : woman source of life for better life
  • 'Pelican' group: Passion for life in a challenging world


Commonalities found in all the drawings:

-    Life
-    Hope
-    Source
-    Giving birth
-    Struggles

FIRST STEP: INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE DRAWING








SECOND STEP: NON-VERBAL PROCESSING OF THE ACTIVITY






THIRD STEP: VERBAL PROCESSING OF THE ACTIVITY








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