At the height of a crisis we usually cannot see its end. We lack the time perspective and fear that things will always be tough.  There isn’t always hope. Everything seems to be one big impediment. The future scenarios that constantly run through our brain are very limited in scope, frightening and negative.  This negative thinking only increases the difficulty.  Our horizon is limited and dull.  The function of any therapeutic intervention is to open up alternatives, new angles, and hope.

In our game, the telescope episode deals with this subject.
In this episode there are three telescopes, directed to Past, Present and Future.  The hero looks at them and in the background we hear a magician speaking to him.  The idea is to focus on getting perspective and realizing that a change can come at any time.  Life is full of surprises.  Change might be difficult and painful but it can also be surprising and positive.  The only certain thing is that there will be change.

For example:

(3rd  telescope – the future. First everything looks dark)
Moose:       “Hello, there’s something wrong with the pictu…”(picture starts to clarify)
Sorcerer:   “We never know what the future holds…”
Moose:       Interrupts: “But you said before that you DID know…”
Sorcerer:   “…We can only be certain that changes will occur…”
Moose:       ”Oh come on, this is such a rip off…”
Sorcerer:   “…We fear change because we fear the unknown, that which we cannot foresee or prevent… But change forever brings with it both pain and joy.”
Moose:       “That’s not true, getting out of this scene would be a change that brings sheer joy.”

At the end of the process he receives a glowing ball symbolizing self- confidence, a sort of transitional object for decreasing the fear of change and increasing hope.

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