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COPE
has 88 picture cards for Trauma and Healing,
sharing communication and creating communication
Coping is a skill.
Situations arise every day that require us to
exercise it. Some such challenges are easily
resolved by making use of already acquired
responses. Other challenges are new, more serious
or even traumatic: threats for which we find
ourselves unprepared. Within such crises lies as
well a potential for healing and growth.
The COPE Cards
came into being as a result of a meeting between
a Russian painter, an Israeli psychologist and a
German publisher - representatives of three
nations that share the fact of recent histories
filled with traumatizing events. They decided to
co-create a tool for working toward a world with
less suffering.
COPE´s extensive
collection of images was painted by Marina
Lukyanova under the guidance of the
internationally renowned trauma therapist, Dr.
Ofra Ayalon, and of publisher, Moritz Egetmeyer.
The COPE Card images reflect Marina´s background
as a wandering water-colourist, Ofra´s long and
effective history as a helper in healing trauma
and Moritz´ expertise with cards for
association. A tabloid representation of terror,
violence or disaster for these cards was rejected
by COPE´s creators, the assumption being that
persons who come to use them as a tool already
have such images stored in their minds.
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. They chose rather to
represent traumatic events and the emotional
responses that they trigger in a symbolic and
metaphoric manner.
Why use
cards for trauma-healing work?
OH-Publishing has
an established history of producing, in
card-form, tools that facilitate authentic
expression in a competition and judgment-free
context. These card decks have been widely
accepted by teaching and social professionals as
well as by lay people in many countries and of
many cultures. In a world in which conflict -
whether private, domestic or international - is
erupting constantly the experience of trauma
seems pervasive. Destruction is all too easily
achieved while rebuilding remains a difficult
process.We need every tool we can dream of to
help build a better future. To achieve such a
goal the past has to be looked in the eye and
dealt with. These cards are an ingenious tool for
doing just that: they facilitate the accessing
both of inner feelings and creative imagination
and thereby support the building - and rebuilding
- of community through communication.
COPE as a
complement
All trauma
therapies aim to disentangle people from the
constricting influence of an event. The COPE
Cards are not meant to replace other therapeutic
approaches but to complement them. Their explicit
goal is to protect, to connect and to validate,
whether used alone or in conjunction with other
methods or with other cards in this series. The
COPE Cards can enhance the process of uncovering
and giving expression to each person´s outlook
on life and to each one´s unique strategies for
dealing with its pains and grief.
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A
booklet follows with the deck
In this
booklet you will find numerous ideas and
suggestions for use, as well as background
information about working with crisis and trauma.
All users of the COPE Cards are encouraged as
well to discover their own applications. In
therapeutic and non-therapeutic settings alike,
please keep in mind the importance of protecting
participants´ vulnerability.
Bearing
witness to pain, whether it be your own or that
of another, can bring insight and lighten the
load. The creators and publishers of the COPE
Cards invite all who use this tool to join them
in confirming the time-tested proverb:
“Shared pain is half-pain and shared joy is
double joy."
 Dr.
Ofra Ayalon,
Moritz Egetmeyer
(utdrag
fra bruksanvisningen)
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