A (personal) sand tray example

unaluna · Apr 19, 2013, 10:32 PM

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Originally Posted by QuietCat

It looks like on one side is a sort of dull rocky land and on the other is a green land with life and clear marbles instead of rocks. Is your choice you have to make involved in that?

I'm just making random observations. You dont have to answer. I love artsy stuff and I would really like seeing a T who does sand play.

That's what it looks like to me. I'm a lonely little dinosaur with some resources, but real life is on the other side of the hill. But it doesn't have my magic nail hill that I need to survive.

It's like a build your own Rohrschach test.

stopdog · Apr 19, 2013, 10:43 PM

I was thinking in my narrative, the one dino is happy to be out of the crowd on the other side where he can just be and do his own thing. When he gets lonely, they just shout back and forth or perhaps climb the sand hill an visit. And then he gets to go back to his happy spot after the visit.

Apr 19, 2013, 11:02 PM

I am so happy I shared this with you guys. I love the thoughts and various interpretations. It's fascinating stuff, isn't it?? lifelesstraveled yep, I emailed the pic to my t, and we are going to talk about it on wednesday - i was alittle unnerved by my own interpretation and i texted her today and asked for an appointment, and just emailed her the picture. I have no 'training' per se in sand play therapy, only experience in actually doing a bunch of them and learning from t as i go! i just bought a cat litter box, and a bag of playground sand, and just began collecting things to use in it. I used to make things to bring to t's office when she was still intown, like one time i constructed a 'tunnel' out of a toilet paper roll and some tape LOL. I knew I would want to still do them after she moved away so i made my own.

thanks for all the great responses!!!

Apr 19, 2013, 11:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Anne2.0

I wrote you a little story about what I saw. I used “I” in the story to refer to you, not me. I imagined that it was my sandtray.

I see myself as having two parts, with a steep wall in between. This wall is not impenetrable and it is possible to move from one part to the other, and I find the journey to move from one side to the other is attractive and sparking with stones the color of the limitless sky.

In one part of myself, I have old and longstanding interests and work that I do. I am very productive in my work, having unearthed some beautiful stones that are all interconnected to each other. Some of the work that I have done is to build a bridge between the work that I have done and the work left to do. This side of myself is rich with life and growth, but I am now turning away from it, but perhaps not permanently. It has taken me some work to be able to walk away from it. I realize that I can always move closer or further away from what I have already done, and it can always be there for me.

In the other part of myself, it is more stark and less colorful, but this doesn’t necessarily mean it is without life—it just has greater potential. I have already done some work here to build a structure that is rounded and protected by a dry moat. This is the part of myself that I am trying to build up, to create some protection from interference, but not to disconnect from others or myself. This structure looks like a writing studio or another creative space where I can enhance my creative life.

Ummm Anne2.0 do you know me in RL?! That was so accurate it is scary.

Anne2.0 · Apr 20, 2013, 02:28 AM

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Originally Posted by artemis-within

Ummm Anne2.0 do you know me in RL?! That was so accurate it is scary.

I did not mean at all to be scary. But I don't know anyone who lives in your part of the country, so no, I don't know you except through your posts on this board. I just wrote what I saw.

Apr 20, 2013, 07:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Anne2.0

I did not mean at all to be scary. But I don't know anyone who lives in your part of the country, so no, I don't know you except through your posts on this board. I just wrote what I saw.

You are really good at seeing people - your posts are always so insightful - I knew sand trays could be pretty powerful but I guess I didn't realize just how much. I didn't mean scary in a bad way really, jut like a "WHOA - you totally get it" kinda thing! Thanks for your comments!

Anne2.0 · Apr 20, 2013, 08:16 AM

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Originally Posted by artemis-within

You are really good at seeing people - your posts are always so insightful - I knew sand trays could be pretty powerful but I guess I didn't realize just how much. I didn't mean scary in a bad way really, jut like a "WHOA - you totally get it" kinda thing! Thanks for your comments!

thank you for the compliment and I am totally relieved you don't think I'm a stalker.

My exposure to sand tray was at a writer's retreat last summer (we did it twice). My T does have a sand tray room and he said we could do it, and your post was just the impetus I need to say I want to do that. so thank you for posting.

Apr 24, 2013, 11:39 AM

that's great!

I'm so looking forward to talking about mine with t this afternoon. My analysis includes some of the thoughts you all shared here, I thought about the comments here too when I wrote it up. I think I may have gotten my Dad interested in sand play on my trip, he actually got up out of his chair to come look at the picture of mine on my laptop. I told him he should mention it to his therapist, you never know.

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