A teenage girl wrote: “I have borderline personality disorder and use the cards in the therapy to express and name my feelings (since that is sometimes quite difficult). At home, I have a transparent envelope at the door where I always tick the card that best expresses my feeling at the moment; so my parents […]
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The story of Sara
Ms. Schroeter-Rupieper works in her grief support groups with the Gefühlsmonster cards and has provided us with this story of Sara: “Sara’s mum has been in a coma for the last six months after a heart attack. In grief counselling, she is asked if she can find a card which describes the current feelings for […]
Gefühlsmonsters in Pre-Schools
Feedback from a pre-school teacher: “We used the A4 cards in the children’s conference with 5- and 6-year-old children – and assumed, as is often the case, that they would just share the view of the previous speakers. Instead, the following happened: A young girl burst into tears and used this round to describe a […]
Classics with feeling
Here is a report from a German secondary school: “Yesterday I discovered and used the Gefühlsmonster cards for a new application. In seventh grade, we’re currently working on Goethe’s “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”. We tried to imagine the state of mind of the sorcerer’s apprentice, to perceive how it significantly changes during the ballad and we […]
Surprising – and unplanned – use of the Gefühlsmonsters
“Imagine what happened yesterday at home: After an argument with my 11-year-old son, I was looking for a list of feelings according to Rosenberg. Since I had just lent out my non-violent communication book, I searched the Internet and ran into your website. The idea with the cards immediately appealed to me. Now, that’s something! […]