Reflections of the art therapy class & me starting working at The Caterpillar's Cove

This 2 days i had started work at The Caterpillar's Cove...It's really fulfilling that i interact with the children, It's a 'previlage' from God to be given the opportunity to work there. I love the children, the children never fail to express their affection for you. The challenge is to perform as a teacher, as in, you just completed Field Practicum(FP), so i think I should be more alert as a teacher to inspire the children.....

Am having Art therapy workshop, I think it's titled "The Art of Being", Being in the sense of coming to terms with who you really are, weaknesses, strengths.....i love the paints, i usually use crayons, soft pastels which are chalk material in a square rod.

Today, Joanna the instructor let us draw a 'MADANLA', mapping about the centre of your life, your joy, your greatest disappointment, your motivation, your epitagh, which meant how would you want people to remember you after you die? The founder of psychology, Karl Young i think, that's the name did 1 of these everyday...which was very meaningful, you think through what are you going through, what have you done,what do you intend to do after this....

So i was drawing....My friends that i made there are like so profoundly wise....the pictures, meaning....I'm very amazed at the way we used different things to symbolise the things....want to learn more and express how we feel with the group, trusting one another with secrets or weaknesses that we will portray in the paintings.

ThenAfter, we were asked to look at out MANDALA, choose something form there &use clay, air-dry clay i think, to make something which symbolises that thing i identified fomr the MANDALA...i made many things...Wonder should I take pictures...Maybe i should...

AT this point when M(coded to protect the person's interest), my another friend shared in class, -"the greatest joy is also greatest disappointment."-
quite true...
the concluding phrase was -"with the disappointment, the joy is much greater"-

When my friend, Farhana ask me what i learnt from class today, it's like i have some difficulty to retell her what learnt, every session i discover something, it's like finding treasure..I should write out more explicitly what are the significant things that happen on my notebook, so i can reflect on it and learn more so I can benefit others too.

Today's main tagline was, "1 Thing that i learnt from today's session is __________", give a 1 word answer. i shared honesty. I went on to explaining. I felt that in a group, you shre weaknesses, you want people to know who you are, you wnat yourself to come to terms with what you are facing....then we can do somethiinga bout it, overcome it, rather then put a facade on and you just wasted your time at the art-therapy session....There's a journal that i need to write too...i shall go write it now, a little late...so i will write after class& talk with Joanna more!

At the end of the day, i left the Cove (worked there after my art-thearpy class) to make my way home....walked to the bus stop, and i met Natasha & Uncle Wee, Tasha's Daddy...such a heart warming sight to see them together...Natasha's smile really makes you want to smile too?haha, Wonder if i could take a picture of them...

-perhaps i should be more alert about these things-(: