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Personal Emotional Laboratory is a bespoke, five-day workshop cycle focused on developing emotional awareness and agency in children. Given the participants’ age (which already requires a more profound reflection and autonomy), the programme moves away from infantile visual-art activities towards analytical, craft-based, and spatial forms of practice. The children will learn to recognise, release, and transform emotions through traditional techniques (e.g. the making of motanki dolls) and somatic exercises (e.g. bilateral drawing).

Agenda:

• Monday (Discernment):

Creating a shared space – an installation made of yarn forming a “web of relations”. Theatre-based games involving emotions and the drawing of one’s own Map of the Inner World. The design of a personal name badge.

• Tuesday (Agency):

Creating spatial “transformation wands” of cardboard and ribbons. Working with calm, harmonious body movements in symbolic dancing and arts practice.

• Wednesday (Sense of security):

Learning traditional craft. Work carried out in deep concentration on the creation of a personal motanka doll made of textiles – a “power animal” (an amulet).

• Thursday (Transformation of tension):
• Safe physical release of anger through dynamic bilateral drawing, followed by the transformation and reorganisation of the torn drawings into a new, coherent collage.
• Friday (Balance):

Constructing personal folders (“treasury troves”) from thick cardboard and decorating them with geometric patterns to store the works created. A ceremonial, silent closing of the process in a circle.

moderators: Joanna Roesler, Maria Noak