Fairytale therapy sounds very modern. However, this direction of psychotherapy is by no means new. Since ancient times, mankind has been telling fairy tales to its offspring, striving not only to entertain the child or calm the future sleep, but also to teach valuable things - for example, to distinguish good from bad. Information presented in the form of a fascinating story is easier to assimilate, and, therefore, with the help of a fairy tale, it is easier for a child to instill some skills and help to cope with difficult situations. Therefore, psychologists strongly recommend that parents compose and tell fairy tales to their children.
Instructions
Step 1
Start from afar. Traditionally, phrases denoting time are used: "a long time ago", "at the time of the King of the Peas", "in antiquity", "last year", "such and such a date and such and such a year" and so on.
Step 2
Designate the location where the events will take place. In classical fairy tales it sounds like this: “in a certain kingdom-state”, “in the thirty kingdom”, “in the same forest”. But nothing prevents you from coming up with something of your own, especially if the fairy tale is healing and is designed to help the baby cope with some problem. You can choose a school (“Once an amazing story happened in one school in N-ska town”), a village, a playground or a kindergarten as a place of events in your history.
Step 3
Come up with a main character. Your task is to make him look like your baby. Let him love things that your child is not indifferent to, has similar habits and hobbies. But don't completely copy your child in the hero of the story. Make the character fabulous, curious, funny, charming, evoking the most ardent sympathy and the desire to find himself in his place.
Step 4
State the problem. Let it symbolically (by no means directly!) Reflect the situation your child is in and with which you want to teach him to cope with the help of a fairy tale. Change the situation so that it is only guessed, make it truly fabulous, magical, but quite recognizable. However, do not underestimate the difficulties the protagonist faced.
Step 5
Come up with a continuation of the story. This is where you can introduce antihero / heroes that will make the problem worse, or you can do without them. The main thing: the problem outlined in the last paragraph should be strengthened as much as possible, brought to the point of absurdity. Develop the story so that it becomes clear that the hero simply cannot help but do something about the problem.
Step 6
Solve his fairy problem together with the hero. A certain subtlety is required about you here. You have to guide the hero of the fairy tale on adventures to solve the problem so that the child sees a way out of his own - the one for which the fairy tale was invented. Let the hero show his best qualities in the process, use a variety of resources, becoming stronger, smarter, kinder, more heroic along the way. More special effects and drama!
Step 7
Lead your hero out of all adventures as a standout. Rejoice with the baby in his luck and courage, and then think of what this story taught the character of the fairy tale, how he will behave in the future when he finds himself in a similar situation.
