Most likely you know the “Bank of Secrets” exercise and use it in your professional activities. I have my own exercise with a jar, which I decided to share. It appeared after becoming acquainted with the works of the Portuguese designer and illustrator Inna Ogando. A simple jar contained the whole world. This is how the “Jar” exercise appeared in my practice, which I use in working with children and adults. We need: - a jar template (you can take other templates); - colored pencils/markers; - scissors/matches (if the “jar” needs to be symbolically destroyed). Before moving on to the “Jar” exercise with children (depending on age child), I tell and show photos of various jars (preserved, decorative) or play the game “Catch a Bug” (if you don’t know one, find it on the Internet). Then, depending on the problem, we suggest filling the “jar” with grievances, fears, or if we use the “jar” as a resource, with joy. How the bank of fear became a resource. At the reception, Anya V. (8 years old), after staying at a summer camp, became afraid to sleep with the lights off. - You can put everything, everything, anything you don’t like in this jar. - I’ll put the night in there (paints the jar black). - How interesting, tell me why you put the night there. - It’s dark at night and you can’t see who’s hiding in it. In the camp, before lights out, Masha told stories that happened at night, all sorts of horror stories. - Was it scary? - Yes. Now I sleep all night with the lamp on, but dad scolds me. He says that I am big and there is no point in believing in any nonsense. - What would help you drive away fear? What if the electricity goes out? - I don’t know (thought about it). - Let's try to find something that will help you cope with fear and will always be with you. What cannot be turned off or taken away from you may remain your secret. Day with the sun is replaced by night with the moon and stars, which give their light to those who admire them or show the way to those who have lost their way, and they also reveal their secrets to those who study them. Anya drew stars on the jar and asked keep it for yourself. With adults, during a difficult life period (divorce, moving, change in life orientations), you can use a “jar of grievances,” either drawn or glass, which, “filled” with grievances, can be broken and thrown into the trash. As resource, you can offer the “Jar of the Day” exercise, when the client “fills” (draws, writes, makes a collage from photographs or magazine clippings) a jar every day with positive impressions of the past day.