Stress

In our most recent session we carried out a workshop which allowed us to compare and contrast our worries and coping strategies with each other anonymously. We discussed how we de-stressed, what negative thoughts we had had that day, what scares us most and what stresses us out. What was very interesting to see was how many similarities there were, that we were all stressing about the same thing, which made me feel a lot better as everyone is in the same boat, everyone is finding it hard, not just me, I wasn't alone. What worried me the most was how many people had had negative thoughts about their appearance that day, it made me realise that people who may come across as confident are actually extremely self conscious. 

After looking at what other people in the class had written down, we then had to choose our top 12, which most related to us as individuals. The from those 12 we had to create a Haiku using just three of those lines. My final Haiku idea was;

"I'm not good enough,

I don't want to disappoint,

I need to write things down".

Everyone then placed their final haiku upon the wall, which allowed us to see everyone's inner most fears and worries. We then discussed in what context could we put these in which would allow fellow or coming students to know that what they are feeling is normal and everyone is feeling the same as them. Our idea was to place the Haikus either in a booklet which would be part of a welcome pack, when new students move in to their accommodation. Another more interesting idea was to place them up and around the accommodation as murals, which could be designed specifically by art students and culminated into a final piece of artwork.