They can select images, words, phrases, or colors from magazines and newspapers to compile a collage. Ask the teens to answer the above questions through a collage.What are the images/colors and shapes they feel are associated with these words?.What are the positive words that come to them when they focus on their core value?.Once the teen understands the meaning of core value, ask them to focus and answer the following:.A core value can be anything they feel strongly about or what they feel good about.

Explain it to them through examples of core values, such as taking the initiative, having fun, ensuring growth and development, etc. Ask the teens to focus on their core values.Realizing core values is important as it helps develop coping skills and strategies that are vital to guard mental health. In this activity, teens create a visual representation of their core beliefs and values through their imagination and creativity. It is an amusing and engaging therapeutic exercise. Discuss with each of the participants about how they might begin to work towards a healing resolution. Once they complete drawing and writing, use what they drew and write to explore their emotions.Tell them that they have the freedom to express what they felt or still feel about the experience.Use the lined side to write what they wish they said. Ask the teens to draw their experience on the blank side of the postcard.what they would like to tell the person about the experience and how it made them feel.Give the group some time to go into the flashback and think about:.Distribute these postcards among teens and ask them to recapture a situation or person that they feel/felt anxious, angry, frustrated, sad, or upset about.You can also print a template of a postcard on a piece of paper. It might help dissuade the fear to face communication among teens. The activity helps teens express their negative feelings or conflicting opinion to someone without having to say it to them. This art therapy activity is a self-discovery exercise that can be used for individuals or groups.

Therapeutic ice breakers for teens