To properly handle their emotions, they need to be able to identify and contain their feelings, and that is where the cards are helpful.”īecause the students that Lisa works with have limited verbal skills, she relies heavily on the card illustrations. “They have a hard time keeping their personal and work life separate. “One of the difficulties our students face is properly handling their emotions in the workplace,” says Lisa.
She works with mentally and physically disabled students. Lisa Bartsch is a school-to-career counselor at Goodwill’s Institute for Career Development in San Jose, California. “It seems there is no accident in the card they draw,” she says. She asks them to describe what they see and feel and how they relate to the emotion depicted on the card. “And people don’t always pick the ‘sad’ cards.”Ī bereavement counselor in Tacoma, Washington, Jacqueline Farrell uses Mixed Emotions in grief support groups by laying cards face down and having people choose a card at random. “It’s been pretty amazing,” says Kathy, who is grief support services supervisor at Stevens Hospital in Edmonds, Washington. In her groups, Kathleen Albin encourages members to choose a card, and then talk about how the card they chose represents what they’re feeling. “Sometimes they are, sometimes they aren’t.” “Only then do I have them identify the words on the card and whether or not the words are ‘in sync’ with their own response,” says Rex. Then he asks the person who originally chose the card what drew him or her to it, and how the image impacts him or her. He asks them how they responded to the image, where their response sits in their body, and how it speaks to their heart.
“I ask the members of the group who are encountering the card to look at it as if they were in an art gallery,” says Rex, who is grief support services supervisor at Providence Hospice in Seattle. Rex Allen encourages people in groups to pick a Mixed Emotions image that speaks to them, cover the words, and then walk around the group showing the image to the others.
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