Doodle Guidance

I liked this weeks 'doodle guidance' (aka life space maps). Very much the sort of thing I like (but then again I am a little odd).I have done something a wee bit similar with a group in the past. We made posters using magazine images/words, to represent 'you'. You could make it represent you in the past, present, future, or a mix of the three, whatever you liked. The only rule was you had to include the positive things you think about yourself. This was actually quite a difficult exercise for some of the group, as they generally had low self esteem. It was sad because every single one of them had cut out the word 'help' and stuck it on their poster somewhere. No-one was willing to talk to the group about their poster either, which was a shame because that was supposed to be the 'empowering' bit (but then it was a difficult group with a lot of group tensions).I'm not sure if I entirely agree with Grant about it being tool very unlikely to cause harm - like I said with the repertory grids, if you don't have trust/rapport with the client, this sort of thing can be very exposing. Even through it's in 'code' and you don't have to say anything you don't want to, it would still be scary to do if you didn't trust the counsellor.