Feeling that the world is on your shoulders, that you are bent out of shape or getting cold feet. We have many physical based metaphors to describe the abstract feelings that we experience. Stress seems to manifest itself in many different forms, yet all these symptoms have something in common: they are a signal from the body that it is not in optimal condition. Where your mind is telling you not always the objective truth, your body is. But how do you recognize and value these signals? Within my design research at Willem de Kooning Academy, I use different visualization techniques to design a conversation about body awareness to help students recognize, value, and use their bodily signals to cope with their stress and relabel the experience. With my design students at Arnhem University of applied science as my participants, we try to redesign student coaching and help academies shift from study success to student success.

Feeling that the world is on your shoulders, that you are bent out of shape or getting cold feet. We have many physical based metaphors to describe the abstract feelings that we experience. Stress read more