In the last publication, I talked about working with a 16-year-old girl, Dasha, who was diagnosed with depression. Dasha has difficulty communicating, opening up, talking for a long time, and often has no strength to do anything. . You can read more about our work here: Sessions with a girl who has difficulty communicating And now I will tell you about one art therapeutic practice that I learned from colleagues, but modified, taking into account the individuality of Dasha’s and my work. Art therapy for exploring the current and building the future conditions. I note that this practice is not only diagnostic and research in nature, but also therapeutic - it sets the positive development of the condition, possibly with the help of a therapist. I took art practice as a basis, in which today and the future are depicted. But Dasha and I did this exercise not at the beginning of our work, but 4 months after the first meeting, so I added one more fragment - the point from which we started. So: Lay a sheet of A4 paper horizontally, divide it with two vertical lines three equal parts. The first part of the sheet is the state of mind in the period of time from which we began work (we can suggest recalling a significant moment in the past that worries us); The second is the current state; The third is the state to which we need to arrive. Each part in order from the first Before the third, you need to paint over any of the proposed colors in the form of an arbitrary figure, spot, or just the whole thing. I offered Dasha a set of pastel crayons in 24 colors. Pastel is very suitable here, since a person who is depressed or in a depressed mood may not really “color” their states, and a pencil, for example, or paint, could reveal completely dull spots. Pastel, even with light pressure, gives rich shades. Each color that is used in such a drawing has a certain meaning accepted in psychology. But not only such conditioning is important, but also the interpretation of color by the person himself. It is interesting that Dasha, when I began to ask her what certain colors and shades in a drawing meant to her, gave them approximately the same explanation as the accepted one. Here is the first picture where we started: Here Dasha said that there was a lot of apathy (black), sadness (blue), aggression (red), and a little light shade meant a little hope for light in this gloomy picture. Second part work - current state: Here Dasha was the first to take green, and this color means health, recovery. Dasha described it as “calm.” Which is also an interesting projection that gives an answer to the question of what is needed for health. The yellow color appeared here - joy, the light blue color increased - hope, blue and red remained, but in smaller quantities - sadness and anger. The third part is the desired state in the future: In this part of the sheet we draw the future desired state. And here the psychologist can intervene in order to carefully, without unnecessary persistence, help form a positive vector if the client continues to look into the future in a negative way. However, I did not have to intervene. Dasha herself painted this part of the drawing in the most positive colors. The dominant color has become yellow - joy, fun; green color became more active; red has become more about strong and vivid emotions, adventurous risk; blue now signified not such strong sadness as in the first part of the picture, but a certain spleen, nostalgia, and inner contemplation; a blue color appeared, which Dasha defined as openness to new things, self-confidence. And Dasha outlined this part of the drawing, which she designated as stability. Dasha ended up with this triptych: Note that the better the condition, the more Dasha got it. I also decided to suggest to Dasha that she add some “bridges” to this drawing - connecting color spots-transitions that help to move from one state to another. I also added another author’s proposal to this art therapy practice: Dasha folded the drawing along vertical lines: and I suggested that the girl put this figure at home on her +7-916-694-42-28