Visual talk is a very effective medium for working with people of any age, not just children. This medium gives voice to those emotions and thoughts that are not so easy to express. What I love most about Visual talk is its ability create a picture for the hopes and desires that lay dormant in the mind awakening them visually bringing them to life.
This method has been used to:
Why use this method for children as well as adults and teens? This techique will increase reading skills 20% when applied before
reading exercises. I have seen a childs score go from an F to a C
after only three sessions.
Many parents when seeking help for their children have found this methos of RPC to be very beneficial with these following issues:
Children express their feelings through their
behavior. This is not an issue except for those times that it begins
to disturb family life in some way. A typical approach is to try and
control the behavior in a forceful manner to bring about change. For
example if they are aggressive then a punishment is given which will
stop the behavior for a short while only to return later. For the time
that they seem to be controlling the emotion on the outside a great
deal of tourmoil is going on in the subconscious; this eventually leads
to them acting out in some other way. How does Visual Talk help with
this?
Adults and teens may use Visual talk to spark the creative juices opening
the mind to new ideas and posiblities. Image tray becomes a great
medium for problem solving and finding solutions, getting the creative
juices going, as well as a way to release stresses created by different
emotions.