BioGraffs Visual Narratives in Therapy Workshop

Visual Narratives in Therapy: A Technique for Using Objects as Metaphor in Complex Storytelling

Sunday Jan 21, 2024

3-4:30pm

Takoma Care Space

6930 Carroll Ave, Ste 1050

Takoma Park, MD 20912

Dues-paying PATH Members: FREE

All others: Suggested donation $10

This foundation course introduces participants to the principles behind BioGraff’s external simplicity of using colored cubes as a metaphorical substitution for inner complexity. The process is similar to sand tray therapy. The invitation to a client is to represent experiences visually in the landscapes of identity and action, using color, quantity, form, and position, and spatial relationships. 

This course includes a discussion of theory and process with case examples, a demonstration of the in-session process, and experiential exercises in small group work to deepen understanding of the BioGraffs approach of small objects of the practitioner’s choosing.

Target Audience 

This workshop is for any clinician looking for ways to expand their repertoire of therapeutic tools. It is appropriate for mental health professionals, including Psychologists, psychedelic guides, coaches, Licensed Mental Health Counselors, Psychiatrists, Social Workers, and Psychiatric Nurse-Practitioners.

Workshop Description

Internal storytelling is how people integrate and make sense of the external events and experiences of their lives. One of the challenges of therapy is helping people bring these internal stories out for a new perspective on them. The BioGraffs technique gives people a way to create a visual narrative about an aspect of their lives, that then becomes a physical metaphor of experience that is separate from language. It helps people to slow down their thinking about their stories and deconstruct them externally, removing them from the mental tangle.

Biograffs can be an especially helpful tool for people who want to integrate the insights gained from a powerful psychedelic experience – it can be used both before taking psychedelic medicine, immediately after when the experience is fresh, or later as part of a continuing process of integration.