MY Flag
by Mark Sichel, LCSW
Please do this exercise as a means of expressing your rights, autonomy, and identity. A personal flag is a symbol with which you can express your core identity and belief system. We will be looking further at inner qualities, as well as values and aspirations that may help you focus in your quest to find out more about who you are.
By the way, your flag can be created on the computer, with paint, pencil, pen, magazine cutouts, or it can remain in your head as a thought and idea. The goal here is not to get lost in an art project, but rather to begin thinking of your core identity and your aspirations for yourself.
People who lack feelings of entitlement and have difficulty in granting themselves a Bill of Rights, need sometimes to create flags as an expression of independence, freedom, and liberty. In the meantime, please try to answer the following questions for yourself to help you begin thinking about designing your Personal Flag.
- What are my central values as a human being?
- What parts of my identity are most valuable to me?
- Worker?
- Person in Recovery?
- Parent?
- Child?
- Spouse?
- Religion?
- Nationality?
- Gender
- Sexual Identity?
- What are my aspirations personally, professionally and spiritually?
- Which are my favorite colors? Why are they my favorites?
- Which symbols really appeal to me? What do they mean to me?
- Where have I seen flags that I've admired?
Let yourself play here, Psybersquarians. Have fun with this. For more concrete suggestions, read Flag-Making Tools.
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