02 Jul Kintsugi
Kintsugi is an ancient Japanese art meaning ‘joining with gold’ used to mend broken ceramics with a gold powder and laquer mix.
The gold glue highlights rather than hides the repair.
Putting things back together in a new form is a metaphor for resilience in life.
A broken dream or a traumatic event can take on a new meaning and make your life beautiful in a different way, like a broken ceramic bowl with golden repair can be beautiful in its own right.
Your Self-Coaching Questions
(These questions are inspired by and build on New lives from broken dreams: Solution Focused Tool by Chris Iveson and A. Biba Rebolj)
Thinking about a broken dream, slashed hope, struggle, scar, challenging or traumatic event, or just a perceived imperfection…
❧ What made you decide not to throw away the broken pieces?
❧ What made you start putting back the pieces together?
❧ How did you start putting back the pieces together?
❧ When did you notice that you were beginning to do so?
❧ What skills did you draw on to put back all the pieces together?
❧ How have those skills evolved or changed throughout the repair process?
❧ What difference has it made to you to be able to repair the broken pieces?
❧ What have you learned from this repair process?
❧ What do you see in this new creation that you could not see in before?
❧ What difference does this process and new creation make to how you see your future? Your new dreams? Your new hopes?
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