9th Workshop

Blind Self-Portrait

Title of the activity: Self-Portrait

Date and place: 15.07.2024 -Young Folks LV office, Riga, Latvia

Duration: 40 minutes

Aim of the activity: To encourage self-reflection and emotional expression by creating a self-portrait focusing on inner qualities rather than physical appearance. The activity aims to foster introspection, self-awareness, and creative exploration beyond external features.

Participants info: 10 young people aged 15-23.

Description of the activity:

The workshop started with an icebreaker; at first everyone shared their names, and then participants divided into couples. Their task was to share three interesting facts about themselves, where one was a lie and two were true, and another one needed to guess which was which.

After that participants were introduced to the rules and aim of the workshop. They were given different kinds of magazines and newspapers and were asked to cut different parts from them and build up a portrait of themselves. After everyone built up portraits, we did a group reflection, and everyone individually explained why they expressed themselves in that way. About what they were thinking while building up their portraits and what they felt.