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Using BioGraffs in a
Clinical Practice
Therapists using BioGraffs have reported significant breakthroughs with clients who were previously resistant or stuck.
Do you ever have a client struggle to put their thoughts and feelings into words?
Do your clients ever just report on what happened THIS week - and you like them to get more in touch with their feelings and experience?
Do you ever have a client who doesn't really know WHAT they are feeling?
How about couples who talk over each other and don't hear each other?
BioGraffs is a totally unique tool for your therapeutic toolbox, whatever your modality.
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To help clients who are caught up in their own stories
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To help people get distance from their story (externalize)
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To help people talk about hard topics, with you or with a partner
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To help clients share their experience with you
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To gain clarity on confusing issues
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For clients who feel stuck
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For clients when you are feeling stuck
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For couples to understand each other better
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For families that need help hearing each other
Who is it for?
The BioGraffs method is for any clinician looking for ways to expand their repertoire of approaches, and interested in exploring narrative and storytelling techniques. Externalizing internal narratives affords an opportunity for people to create distance from events and become the protagonist of their own choosing in the stories of their lives.
It gives people a way to create a visual representation about an aspect of their lives as a physical metaphor of experience that is separate from language. It helps people to slow down in their stories and deconstruct them externally, removing them from the mental tangle of the default mode network.
Would you like to hear more about how BioGraffs can help you and your clients?
See how easy it is to use BioGraffs with clients
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WHAT IS THE BIOGRAFFS METHOD EXACTLY?
BioGraffs is a method of externalizing complex thoughts and feelings by attaching them to context-less objects, and then manipulating those objects to express complex ideas and relationships in the realm of metaphor.
It's a three-step method that starts with a prompt: something that occurs naturally out of the work you are doing together.
Prompt examples:
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What happens in an argument between you and your partner?
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What is a day in your depression like?
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How does your anxiety manifest in your mind?
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How do you self-soothe when you are triggered?
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What happened in your traumatic experience?
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Show me a time you felt powerless
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What is your preferred sexual flow?
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What are you getting in life compared to what you want?
Identify Parts
Next, you will direct you client to think of the PARTS of the experience they are going to tell you about, inspired by the prompt. Each part (a thought, feeling, action, event, abstraction, etc) gets assigned one of 10 colors.
Create the BioGraff
Now they have 300 cubes to arrange in ways that express how these parts relate to one another. They browse through the 8 example cards that represent 8 different ways people tend to approach this activity. Will they make something like a timeline of an event? The things that happen, showing order and proportion, and how they feel about it?
Will they make a mosaic, that expresses through metaphor how these things relate to one another?
Will they compare how these things manifest in different situations?
People often talk through what they are doing as they work and you might offer gentle guidance. When they are done, invite them to tell you about what they've created.
See a BioGraff-maker's insight happen as she works on one about her anxious child:
Parenting an Anxious Child
BioGraffs is available in different versions, depending on your clinical needs:
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BioGraffs Mini for your clients to use on their own at home
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They can take pictures of their finished BioGraff to share with you in session
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or you can use it in session
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BioGraffs Mag Plus with very satisfying magnetic cubes and magnetic whiteboards
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More stable BioGraff for extended discussion and passing around
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Pleasing tactile sensation with the magnets!
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Visual aids to help your client understand the activity
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Comes with half-hour consultation to help you adapt use to your clinical needs
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You'll be surprised how clarifying it can be to think
and talk with cubes
Check out what some of our customers have shared with us
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