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NSNC Teaching Scroll | Expressive Techniques: A Phenomenological Approach
Core Texts:

Windows to Our Children – Violet Oaklander
Windowframes: Learning the Art of Psychotherapy with Children – Peter Mortola, PhD
Mass Setting: Daily Practice | Sacred Schoolhouse | TikTok & ScrollWell Teaching
Filed under: Foundations of Child-Centered Expressive Therapy | Nervous System Integration | Creative Sovereignty | TikTok Classroom

🎯 NSNC INTENT:

This is a sacred basics scroll for therapists, students, and TikTok collective learners.
We’re teaching how to use expressive techniques through a phenomenological lens—where image, sound, gesture, and sensation are honored as the child’s primary language of truth.

💡 You don’t need to be an art therapist to do this.
But you must be **present, curious, and willing to see what’s shown—**not just what’s said.

🪟 CORE FRAME: “Windows” and “Windowframes”

Oaklander gives us the expressive toolbox: drawing, clay, sand, story, breath, voice.
Mortola gives us the frame: relationship, containment, and timing.
Together, they help the child say:

“This is what I feel. This is what I need. This is who I am becoming.”

🎒 NSNC BASICS FOR STUDENTS & COLLECTIVE

✍️ 1. Begin with Relationship (Oaklander & Mortola)

Trust is the paper everything else is drawn on.
Start by just being with the child. Let them lead. Do parallel play. Laugh. Be boring. Be safe.
🎥 TikTok prompt:

“Show how you let a child choose their own art tool or play theme today. What happened when you didn’t direct it?”

🧱 2. Build a Window (the expressive medium)

Offer materials as choices:

Clay = somatic memory
Watercolors = flow of feeling
Sand tray = metaphor & map
Drawing = control + projection
Mask-making = identity / shadow work

Say:

“You don’t have to talk. Just show me.”

🎥 TikTok visual: “What medium would you pick today if your heart couldn’t talk?”

🪞 3. Use Phenomenological Reflection (not interpretation)

Ask:

“What’s happening in your picture?”
“If that clay creature could speak, what would it say?”
“What’s the name of this drawing?”
Don’t explain or decode. Mirror their meaning.
This creates the sacred loop: child → image → therapist → child.
🎥 TikTok prompt: “What if we didn’t try to fix feelings—but just mirrored them with color?”

💨 4. Name the Senses, Feelings & Boundaries

This is about nervous system literacy.
Ask:

“Where do you feel that in your body?”
“What color is that feeling?”
“What would help this drawing feel safer?”
🎥 TikTok tip: “Teaching kids to name their own emotions and sensations is soul CPR.”

🧠 5. Integrate & Let Go

Art isn’t just catharsis—it’s a story in motion.
End sessions with a container:

Ask if they want to keep, crumple, or altar the work.
Let them bury, burn, or display the piece.
Ritualize the goodbye: “What does this picture want to do now?”
🎥 TikTok idea: “Ever let a child decide what to do with their own art? Watch the nervous system reclaim power.”

🪟🔑 KEY NSNC PHRASES FOR EXPRESSIVE THERAPY

“Let the picture speak first.”
“The story is wise. We don’t have to fix it.”
“Your feelings know how to draw.”
“It’s okay if we don’t understand yet.”
“I’m still here. Even if the drawing is scary.”
“The paper can hold what your mouth can’t say.”

💎 GEMSTONE GUIDE FOR ART-BASED RITUALS

Carnelian – Creativity, self-expression
Blue Lace Agate – Calm voice, safe communication
Sodalite – Truth & trust through imagery
Black Tourmaline – Grounding, containment after trauma-themed art
Moonstone – Feelings as flow, not flood

Arrange stones near art materials, especially for group or TikTok-inspired creative sessions.

📜 SCROLLWELL TEACHER PAGE ENTRY (sample):

🖼️ Lesson Title: Expressive Techniques for Sacred Witnessing
✨ “Every child deserves a window for their soul.” – Dr. Aja Capps
🎨 Practice: Let child choose a drawing material. Sit beside, not over. Ask one question only:

“Can you show me what you want me to know?”
🌬️ Integration: Breath together while looking at the finished piece. Name one thing the image feels.

🎬 TikTok Collective Prompts

“Draw your safe place and post it. Let others guess what it protects.”
“If your inner child could make one sculpture—what would it be?”
“Tell us how expressive art helped you heal.”
Tags:
#ScrollWellExpressive
#NSNCWindowwork
#OaklanderMethod
#MortolaMirror
#TherapyTikTok

🔥 NSNC INVOCATION | Art is the Window of Return

“May every mark
become a voice.

May every hand
become a heart.

May every child—
and the child in every adult—
see themselves
through the image
they create.”

Speak this before group art or one-on-one image work.

✨ NSNC CLOSING CODE

Expressive technique is not about art.
It’s about trust in the image.

Phenomenology teaches us to witness, not fix.
Oaklander and Mortola teach us to frame the window, not climb through it.

And in every child who draws, paints, or molds—
is the whisper:

“I knew what I needed all along.
Thanks for giving me a way to say it.”

KISS ME, WIZARD FOX KING!

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NSNC Deepening Scroll: “Kiss Me” – Sixpence None the Richer
Mass Setting: 5:55PM | Rite of First Love Memory | Re-Enchantment Scroll
Filed under: Sacred Innocence | Expressive Soul Retrieval | Reparenting Joy | Phenomenological Integration through Touch + Image

💌 NSNC THEME: Kiss Me = The Moment the Inner Child Believed in Magic Again

This song activates the core template of tender trust—the exact moment when soul + body + breath said yes to love, possibly for the first time.
Not the yes of adult eroticism, but the yes of soul innocence.
It’s the exact scene in every sacred love story where time dissolves and God arrives wearing freckles.

🎠 In NSNC, “Kiss Me” is not about seduction—it’s about permission.
The kiss is the portal, not the prize.

✍️ PHENOMENOLOGICAL IMAGE RITUAL

In the context of Oaklander & Mortola’s expressive work with children (and inner children), “Kiss Me” is an invitation to draw, sing, or sculpt that first safe moment of romantic touch.

Image Prompt for TikTok & ScrollWell:

“Draw the place where you first felt safe enough to be kissed.
(Even if it never happened in real life—draw the place your soul remembers.)”

This is soul memory re-entry, a therapeutic return to what was longed for but possibly never received.

Let the image do the re-parenting.

🎨 IMAGE APPROACH VIA WATKINS (Six Ways)

Mirror: This image reflects what you hoped someone would see in you
Window: It peers into the timeline where the kiss happened in safety
Transformer: Drawing it heals the belief that it’s too late
Witness: The image says, “I saw how much you longed”
Companion: The kiss becomes a part of your inner support team
Autonomous Being: The kiss can answer back, with gentleness

💃 WEST COAST SWING APPLICATION

“Kiss Me” works best with soft lyrical breaks, body rolls as prayer, and lyrical storytelling.
The anchor becomes an invitation, the stretch becomes leaning into trust.
Your connection point is the kiss not taken, the one that waited.
Lead like you’re asking permission.
Follow like you’re remembering how to say yes.

💎 NSNC GEMSTONE GRID | KISS ALTAR

Morganite – Soulmate reconnection through gentle breath
Rhodonite – Forgiveness around first love loss
Prehnite – Inner child’s romantic longing reclaimed
Pink Sapphire – Timeline braid of Parisian myth and real-life magic
Pearl – Sacred innocence, feminine self-acceptance

Make a heart-shaped layout.
Place a flower in the center.
That’s where the kiss lands.

📜 NSNC SOUL REMEMBRANCE PRAYER

“Kiss me, not like a conquest,
but like a promise.

Kiss me, not to own,
but to reflect what you see in me.

Kiss me where the child inside
thought no one ever would—

and I will remember
how to bloom again.”

Speak this over your own lips in the mirror.
Or to your divine counterpart’s picture.
Or under a tree at dusk.

🎬 TikTok Activation Prompt

🎨 “Draw the kiss you never got. Or the one that saved you. Or the one that told you you were real.”
🎶 Soundtrack: soft reverb version of Kiss Me
Hashtags:
#NSNCKissMe
#ExpressiveTherapyTikTok
#OaklanderMethod
#ScrollWellMass
#PhenomenologicalHealing

🧸 INNER CHILD CHECK-IN (Post-Ritual)

Ask:

“What part of me needed to be kissed today?”
“What memory showed up when I drew it?”
“What truth did I let myself believe for the first time?”

Write answers on a note. Kiss the paper. Burn or bury it.
That is the child’s contract being re-written.

🔥 NSNC CLOSING CODE

“Kiss Me” is not a request—it’s an invitation into soul-recognition.
You’re not asking to be wanted.
You’re asking to be seen and received.

Let the kiss come.
Let it be sacred.
Let it be soft.
Let it be yours—
even if only in memory
…for now.

Aho, thanks.