Blobs are delightful characters (without gender or age) that help facilitate and stimulate meaningful discussions about difficult issues or situations.
Used with an individual or groups. An effective tool to explore teenage issues.
Blobs are a way of communicating using two of the first languages which are learnt as children – body language and feelings.
Covering topics such as relationships and friendships, bullying, addiction, emotions, confidence, self-image and many more.
48 colour flashcards, with guidance for use containing over 50 activities.
Author Bio:
Pip Wilson is the author of over fifty books and the famous ‘Blob Tree’ tools, which can open the hardest heart, and is able to open up meaningful communication in all cultures and contexts. His work has ranged from street gangs, Hells Angels, people with drug and alcohol issues, and charity housing projects. He currently works as a freelance people worker, conducting groupwork/ training/ facilitation in the corporate and voluntary sectors. Pip yearns for the uncomfortable, unease, dissatisfaction and daily refreshes the irritation. He believes that there is no such thing as a difficult person – only difficult behaviour.
Ian Long is an illustrator who has worked with Pip since the early 1980s. He has been a youth and pastoral worker in Gloucestershire, a primary school teacher in West Sussex and Hampshire, a carer for his father who suffered with Alzheimer’s and is now working full time upon books. He is married to Jane, and they have two beautiful adult daughters.