Psychologlyph
A Visual Language of Relational Health
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These are the tools I've been needing for years!
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Each Psychologlyph is intended to be accompanied by either live presentation, or text and audio/video teachings. These help learners integrate the relational development material in classrooms, therapy offices, or at home. These teaching materials include guided lessons, critical thinking/feeling, somatic sensing, and instructions on how to write/draw psychologlyph.
Concepts can be further integrated through the arts and sciences.
As learners draw the glyphs, and customize them to describe their unique experiences, they are able gain an understanding of their own experiences while integrating the concepts. Artistic experiments provide students with a chance to deepen their gnosis of each concept in grounded and practical forms, as well as expansive metaphorical forms. Artistic practices can include drawing/coloring, dialogue and role playing, movement and somatic awareness, sounding, nature play/engagement, and emotional expression games.
To integrate scientific perspectives, subjects like health & nutrition, biology, ecology, permaculture, and physics can be discussed and taught in parallel to demonstrate how psychological and behavioral principles can show up in a fractal nature in other, more tangible parts of our world.
"Anna's Psychologlyphs turn mental health concepts into usable tools. I wish I’d encountered this work when I was in graduate school. Anna has made clear to me core concepts that were not clear in text books. I’ve read many books throughout my training and career and these cards are synthesizing these concepts in a much more digestible way. This is a very powerful gift Anna is putting out into the world.”
— Lia Moran,
M.ED. Clinical Mental Health Counseling Administrator &
Maternal & Child Health Home Visiting for State of New Hampshire
Who is Psychologlyph for?
(shortened to PGs for younger audiences)
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Psychologlyph has a breadth of potential benefits. Because Psychologlyph has shown evidence of being effective and efficient in visually communicating complex concepts, it is a valuable tool across the neurotypical and neurodivergent spectrum. The glyphs transform complex, emotionally-charged relational concepts and experiences into bite-sized and easily digestible paths of embodied awareness. This allows learners to intuitively grasp difficult emotional and psychological concepts, understanding the parts of the whole, similar to the parts of a machine. In informal trials, Psychologlyph has been shown to expedite the psycho-education process while anchoring concepts in the learner’s personal experience. Psychologlyph has also assisted in inducing unique inner-visual response in learners who previously did not utilize this aspect of conceptualization. The outcomes have shown a range of positive results, some of which include reduced anxiety, increased hope, improved ability to regulate one's nervous system, and expanded capacity to process and navigate change and impactful experiences. |
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Psychologlyph bridges demographic gaps and barriers to support wider connection and collaborative potential: The abstract/non-objective, and simple imagery allows the same visual language to be delivered across spectrums of various demographics, languages, cultures, and identity concepts. The shapes and colors offer neutral structures for facilitators and teachers to guide their unique audiences. This neutrality, or absence of limiting identifying markers, lends to Psychologlyph's ability to adapt and customize to meet the needs of each unique student.
This combination of structure and adaptability has multiple benefits. One benefit is the material's conversational nature, as it actively allows students room to express their autonomy through expression and self-guided choices. As a mutual benefit, this gives facilitators and teachers a structure that includes opportunities to engage, enjoy relevant learning and energizing exchange, and also pause and rest. The pace and personal benefits gained for facilitators as they learn while teaching, can aid in preventing burnout. |
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Psychologlyph can span generations. The visual language of the glyphs can be intuitively understood by people of nearly any age.
A real-world example involves a mother who attended a Psychololglyph presentation at the University of Virginia's Children's Hospital. Her five-year-old son had spent his life in and out of the hospital due to a chronic illness. To cope with the pain of his illness and treatments, he’d begun dissociating. Although dissociating can lessen suffering in the moment, repeated dissociation can have lasting negative effects. Based on what she learned at the presentation, this mother showed her son the Psychologlyph that illustrates dissociation, along with another visual guide for centering in the body, the Centering & Homing Beacon. The mother and son then drew their own versions of the psychologlyphs together and talked about what they meant. By using these tools, her son was able to understand the concept of dissociation and what dissociation felt like in his body. Afterwards, he was able to practice recognizing when his awareness was drifting out of his body during treatment, and call himself back in with care, compassion and practices for anchoring back in. This is an example of how an adult can learn while teaching, and how we, no matter our age, can support ourselves and others as we explore the common ground of our humanity with shared and adaptable maps to guide the way. Psychologlyphs are gender neutral. The blueprint or game-play style of renderings offer a nonverbal interpretation of behavioral patterns, thoughts, and emotions and emphasize the structural logic behind personal and interpersonal patterns. Psychologlyphs also assist in clarifying multifaceted emotion streams and dynamic sequences, assisting those with strong or complex experiences in identifying the workable parts within the greater whole of their experience. This is especially helpful in responding to overwhelm and triggers.
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Responses From
Mental Health Professionals
& Students
Due to the clarity and visual strength of these images, this system is compassionate and highly accessible to diverse and marginalized populations, especially with the capacity to reach those who are visual learners and/or neurodiverse.”
— Kara Castle, LCSW, The Women's Initative Charlottesville Va
After twenty-five years as a senior manager with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and for several years more recently as a somatic psychotherapist in private practice, I discovered Anna Fox Ryan and her development of Psychologlyphs. She displays the same kind of gap-bridging entrepreneurship that DARPA has always supported in advanced technologies.
— B. Sosdian, MA, CCEP, Former Senior Manager with DARP
“Yesterday’s community webinar was incredible. I can already see how useful it will be in different parts of my life. It would be amazing to have a Part 2 of this topic with Anna in the future to dive deeper!”
“It was epic!”
“I learned so much!”
— Attendees from the Dalai Lama Fellowship Program, at the University of Virginia, Contemplative Sciences Center
I attended most of the program presentations for the UVA Children's Hospital Mental Health Awareness Month, and Anna's presentation was the most impactful by far!
— Member of UVA Children's Hospital Board of Directors
This is very helpful. I am a therapist and I find Anna's work very essential and connecting.
— Jaclyn Scott, Family Therapist & Mother
This is groundbreaking.
I've never seen anything like this.
I want to use these with my clients.
When can I buy a deck?
— Top 4 most common responses from clinicians
