| To the facilitator Many of the children and adults that we work with face problems that sometimes overwhelm them. Making a Hero Book will help people to express and think about these problems and find ways to solve them. The process is designed to learn more about the person's inner world and everyday life. But the process goes beyond assessment. Hero booking is therapeutic interview, as well as Art and Narrative Therapy. Taken separately, each exercise has its own specific agenda which includes elements of history taking or making, expressional art or re-authoring of a life story. Strung together, the last of these predominates. The group and the facilitator enter strongly into the person's story as friendly editors and supportive co-authors. The process is strongly biased in the direction of finding heroes, survivors, and master-problem-solvers, rather than victims. The combined job of the facilitator and the child is to help the participant see their own story in a new way, and to have at the end a well illustrated and graphic document as testimony to these positive problem-busting qualities in the person. This guide gives you the steps to follow if you want to help the clients you work with make a Hero Book. Each client will make their own Hero Book. This guide gives you:
AND SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS TO YOU, BUT NOT TO BE READ OR SAID TO THE CHILD, IN CAPITALS |