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Klara Guildsen (lostababyfang) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2013-09-18 00:22:00

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[Day 237] FAMILY ISSUES GROUP THERAPY MINGLE
[Anyone brought to this group will find that there are tables set up around the perimeter of the room, one with snacks and drinks, some even with art supplies on them, while the chairs are all pushed into a circle in the middle. There is a projector set up to one side and it flashes images every so often onto the wall. Images of children, adults, the elderly with the young--some of them more formal, posed, others candid as the brief moments of life they were. Some of these images might even be familiar to certain inmates. It shouldn't be hard for them to pick out their own families after all.

In the center of the circle of chairs is a table with a large bowl of treats, wrapped candies of various sorts. Hard candies, caramels, chocolates, taffy. Beside the bowl is a set of cards with instructions written on the back of them.

"Select a card and read the question aloud to the group. Whoever answers the question gets to choose a reward from the bowl and then select the next card. Continue until all of the cards have been viewed or the bowl is empty. More than one person can answer--the first to respond gets to select the next card. If no one volunteers, the card picker gets to select a person."

The cards themselves have a variety of questions and tasks, but they all have a very similar theme.]

1. What does "family" mean to you?
2. Draw a picture of your family and describe it to the group.
3. What is your ideal family unit?
4. Do you have any siblings? If so, what are they like? If not, what would you do if you found out you had one you had never met before?
5. Have you ever done something to hurt or upset a member of your family on purpose?
6. What is the strongest memory you have of your mother and/or father?
7. Imitate one of your parents when reprimanding you.
8. Have you ever felt like an outsider in your family?
9. What is something you have done to a member of your family or they had done to you that took a long time to move beyond (if ever)?
10. Who are you closest to in your family?
11. How many close family members have you lost?

{OOC: Mingle! These questions are not the only ones. Feel free to come up with more. Also the candy in the bowl is spiked just like the pastries and coffee, so the more characters eat...you get the picture.}

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lostababyfang
2013-09-30 09:41 pm UTC (link)

[He judges the dead?]

But people are judged for bad deeds all of the time. That's why we have a criminal justice system. If you feel bad, you plead guilty and take your punishment as you should.

[If there was one thing her parents ingrained in her well, it was respect for the law and order. There were rules and she was meant to follow them. Not following them would lead to punishment. It wasn't about guilt it was about consequences for your actions.]

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	thehighlord 2013-10-01 07:38 am UTC (link)
	Certainly, and I'm very grateful for it. And I must say my dear, few people seem to view it in such a levelheaded way as you do. But everyone dies, and everyone answers for the way they lived their life, and frankly I'm a rather big believer in second chances. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

lostababyfang
2013-10-03 04:44 pm UTC (link)

[She looks down at the paper she had drawn all over, covered in doodles of nothing and then a face here or there. She hadn't realized she'd been drawing them at first, but by the time she did, she was already shading in her father's peppery gray hair.]

Because you're a nice person. Not everyone deserves it even if they do feel bad. Especially if they might do it again.

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	thehighlord 2013-10-04 08:13 am UTC (link)
	[He follows her glance to the paper but is polite enough not to ask about it for now.] I've done more terrible things than you can possibly imagine, and I've done them over and over across the centuries. If anyone needs to believe in second chances, it's me, my dear. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	lostababyfang 2013-10-07 10:34 am UTC (link)
	People keep saying that. [By people she means Eric. It's all about second chances, but so far, no one has said anything to make Klara think she deserves one.] If I deserved a second chance, I would have gotten one back home. My dad would have made sure of it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

thehighlord
2013-10-07 03:31 pm UTC (link)

You haven't killed anyone today, have you? Or yesterday or the day before? So me that sounds like someone who was given a second chance and did the right thing with it.

[A gentle smile.] I'm not one to lecture you on how to deal with guilt or tell you that the way you view things is right or wrong. I don't have any right to do that, and even if I did I don't know the full extent of what you think or feel. But I will tell you this; I've walked the world for 50,000 years, and I can count on one hand the number of people I've met who were truly evil, utterly beyond repentance or forgiveness. I rather doubt you deserve to be on that list.

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