DE-fitram

Mediation through animals and art

” Helping through mediation
is trying to bring the person back
to herself and so to
the others ”

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Our objective is mainly that people are no more objects of the pain with fills them up, but become subjects of their fate. It is often impossible for people to face their difficulties, they think not to be able to change anything, neither they can imagine any other solutions than those they are used to even when they are not efficient.

We know that the communication with those people is not only a verbal one: they are mostly not used to language. The mediation of an animal or an art seams much more suitable: people find themselves in the mediator, they can develop themselves through the relationship and the work with it.

Generally people don’t want a psychotherapy: so we ask them to work with a horse, or a pencil, or a brush… people will immerse their problems in these activities: so they move the place of these problems from inside to outside.

The work with an animal can be considered as a metaphor which leads to a gratifying relation with other men, so as learning of altruistic behaviour, or of composing with one instincts, of daering friendship, of going over ones basic difficulties: with animals, the assisted becomes an assistant.

In art-therapy, playing with colours and organising them can be a metaphor for the relation with ones fantasy and lead to its control. Creating the hero of a story may be a metaphor to the research of ones identity and become a possibility of evolution.