Metaphorical cards of natural femininity “Women’s Initiations. Girl”

INSTRUCTIONS for the set Women’s initiations



Author of the idea and fairy tales Maria Khomyakova @maria_psy_art
Artist Natalya Aminova @natali_a_minova
Speaking about natural femininity, I invite you to touch the changeable feminine nature , – to those cycles and rhythms that are inevitable for a woman, to those age stages that each of us goes through, living feminine variability through the body, blood, awareness.
This set of postcards tells about the first stage of initiation,
About To a girl,
And is part of the large set “Women’s Initiations”.
Here you will find 20 pictures and 20 fairy tales.
The set of cards was created with love for the feminine essence, depth, with love for feminine nature.
And encourages you to carefully and lovingly touch yourself, the Girl.
What can you tell about yourself as a Girl?
What kind of Girl were you with your family, surrounded by your loved ones, with friends?
> Which memory is especially valuable to you, significant – a memory through which you can always return to your Girl self?
Turning to the first stage of female initiation, a woman returns to the experience when she first realized herself in a female body, first realized herself a girl. I felt completely safe and trusted, and gained the experience of initial unconditional love.
This experience was unique and special for each of us, designed to fill ourselves with a fundamental sense of worth.
But not every woman, being a girl, was gifted with unconditional love and understanding the value of oneself by right of birth due to various reasons relating to the characteristics of the family system, the conditions of upbringing, conception, gestation, and anticipation of its birth. But each of us is now able to turn back to our childhood, turn to the Girl inside us, find and appropriate those gifts that, undoubtedly, each of us has.
This set is filled with fairy tales and images – those metaphorical paths that can accompany us into the world Girls and be effective in working with pristine femininity, with unconditional acceptance and self-worth, with the ability to be spontaneous and curious, inspired and encouraged, to fully surrender to emotions and rejoice in their “I want”.
Postcards will be useful:
– for professional the work of psychologists, art therapists and specialists in helping professions: here you can use images, fairy tales or include both sides of the postcard in the work process;
– for use in the format of self-support and self-knowledge, for creating women’s circles, thematic women’s meetings, conducting initiations.
Fairy tales can serve as an input into the practice of working with women:
– choose a fairy tale, read it, invite women to create their own image using natural or artistic materials, or turn to collage creativity – recreating themselves in the experience of the Girl stage;
– choose a fairy tale for dramatization as an opportunity for a group experience of the Girls stage, to appropriate the resources and value of this period;
– choose fairy tales and images as an opportunity to live out personal memories.
Questions that will help in working with postcards:
What story did the Girl come to you with?
What does this story tell you about, what does this story remind you of?
What stories from childhood do you remember? Why are they significant to you?
What is the Girl allowed to do in this fairy tale, in this picture?
How does the Girl show her feminine nature?
Through what emotions, actions, situations does she get to know her femininity?
How does it manifest itself? is there joy, spontaneity, curiosity in it?
Looking at the card, say:
“I see myself as a Girl who…”
“The girl in me feels herself…”
“I touch my experience and …”