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January 9 2021
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Therapeutic tools like Balisa help patients see healing

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Balisa is a set of therapeutic tools that allow you to "see and touch your feelings", and follow the healing process in a tangible way.

Gianluca Ricciodi Gianluca Riccio
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The Spanish design student Ariadna Sala Nadal has developed a range of mental health tools for survivors of child sexual abuse to help make their emotions more tangible and easier to communicate.

Called Balisa, the therapeutic toolkit includes 21 different modules of unique color, weight and texture, developed in collaboration with specialist psychologists and their patients.

The 21 elements of Balisa

Each of these therapeutic tools represents a different emotion or stage in the patient's healing process.

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Healing pieces

“During therapy, the patient will relate the emotion he is working on at each moment, such as self-esteem, with the piece he thinks best represents that feeling,” says Nadal.

This facilitates the understanding of abstract concepts and improves communication between patient and psychologist. These therapeutic tools allow you to see a physical representation of what you are talking about.

One of the first prototypes of Balisa therapeutic tools

The pieces currently only exist as prototypes modeled in clay or 3D printed. The final versions will incorporate a wide range of materials: from resin to aluminum, from acrylic to acetate.

In this way, each of the therapeutic tools will have different weight, temperature and tactility, to be more easily identified by involving more senses, and distinct from the others.

Balisa, emotional reminder

The pieces can also be assembled together in a sort of totem that the patient places as both a decorative and a symbolic object in his home. A "statuette" of his own healing. A small monument to oneself.

Nadal hopes these therapeutic tools will work as stimuli for reflection and introspection. Visual reminders of how far the patient has come on their journey.

The healing process experienced when survivors face trauma caused by child sexual abuse is long and difficult. For this reason, Balisa therapeutic tools are used both in sessions with the psychologist and when the patient returns home. This allows the survivor to feel safe with a professional as they evolve on their own.

Ariadna Nadal, Elisava School of Design and Engineering of Barcelona.

Balisa, therapeutic tools that make interiority tangible

Since dealing with trauma is rarely a linear process, the Balisa kit is designed to act as an open exploration, with patients able to add or subtract different pieces from their totem pole over time.

“It is important not to force the survivor to follow a defined process, but it is better to adapt to the needs of each person,” says the designer.

“For this Balisa has no end. The goal is not to completely heal, as everyone will always have problems and situations that affect them. The goal is that the person learns to manage these problems when they arise ".

Nadal aims to start production of the Balisa instruments next year.

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Even the Israeli designer Yaara Nusboim studies therapeutic tools that provide different tactile sensations. For this she created a series of baby dolls to use as part of play therapy to help them process difficult or repressed emotions.

The trend of exploring one's inner universe will also continue with the advent of virtual reality, with real ones emotional explorations.

One day we will take a walk in our feelings to get to know them better.

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Gianluca Riccio, copywriter and journalist - Born in 1975, he is the creative director of an advertising agency, he is affiliated with the Italian Institute for the Future, World Future Society and H +, Network of Italian Transhumanists.

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