JICT Metaphors & Musings - November 2011
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November
2011
JICT Images...Journey with Intuition & Creativity to Transformation
JICT Metaphors and Musings
Creativity in Action: Cortexercise
Lisa Wothers, MSA, has created the term cortex-ercise to describe how
she uses the JICT images with drug addicts to strengthen their atrophied
pre-frontal cortex.
In Lisa's words.....
I
use the JICT images during intensive outpatient group therapy for
people who have been diagnosed with substance use disorders...
This is a great fall or closer to winter picture taken in Central Park,
NYC. It shows two very different dogs. One is large, solid and
immovable. The other is tiny and alive.
As I write this article, I am about to head out to Tucson to meet my
JICT business partners for a retreat to imagine how we might share these
72 JICT images with a wider audience.
Although we talk almost weekly about our JICT business, we have not been together in person for over 3 years.
I spread out 8 random JICT images in front of my client to help her
articulate how her mood had changed by the end of our coaching session. I
asked her to pick the image that 'spoke to her' - using a phrase that
was ambiguous and very open so she had freedom to go wherever she
wanted.
We were amazed at how powerful the images worked in my AmeriCorps
Volunteer small group training. At the start of the 3 days, we asked our
group of 15 participants to choose an image that captured how they felt
about working with young girls. While this took almost a full hour, it
set the stage for the rest of the training.