The Essential Responsivity Toys
for Getting Started
Hermes’ Web with its four axis, moveable center, and 8 points represents the whole of life, the whole of a human being as well. Modern life seems determined to ignore everything below the a barrier – to abandon it, seal it off, and drown it as well. The barrier, made of flexible & durable material, represents the separation between the conscious and unconscious mind and presents a way to discuss the pros and cons of this separation, as well as its consequences, especially for one’s spiritual life.
Hermes’ Web is a tool that allows you to demonstrate crucial psychological concepts, behaviors and a person’s psychological structure. Clients can also take it into their own hands to offer their viewpoint or add nuances and corrections. Together, you can come to mutual understandings that allows therapy to move forward, or allow parents and children, teachers and students to communicate better and more clearly.
Some people don’t learn well if they can’t see something tangible, and some can’t learn if they can’t hold something in their hands. The combination of a learning object, a talking stick with dynamic possibilities, and a tool that is exchangeable between client/student/child/adult and whomever is leading the discussion, opens new horizons and makes communication far more effective, even enjoyable. It gets people on the same page and creates a back-and-forth that legitimizes all sides of a discussion.
Each Web comes with a barrier and a link to instructions and demonstrations for utilizing the Web.
HERMES’ WEB & ACCESSORIES
PLASTIC HERMES’ WEBS
Compact, flexible, and eye-catching!
6” Multi-Colored Web with Black Ends
8” Multi-Colored Web with Black Ends – the ideal size!
WOODEN HERMES’ WEBS
Wood is stiffer than plastic, but these larger Webs are great for teaching, demonstrating and group work – visible from a greater distance.
9” 1/8” diameter with multi-colored ends.
12” 1/8” diameter with multi-colored ends.
18” 3/16” diameter with black ends.
18” 3/16” diameter, dyed wood-4 colors w/black ends
24” ¼” diameter with black ends.
Native American Webs: with wooden sticks painted for the four directions and black end pieces. Still in production and not available for pre-order yet.
THE BUTT HEADS
These were originally designed to put out cigarettes, but they conveniently fit over the ends of Hermes’ Web. They can represent the ego – atop the barrier, or what dwells ominously in the core – under the barrier. Just use your imagination or let your client pick what fits for them – their own estimation of what inhabits their core – one or many! These little doodads allow you to discuss possible issues either above or below the barrier and the relationship between those too often separated worlds. It’s really a bit of a Rorschach in that you can project all manner of things on these creatures and objects. Use one at a time, several at a time, above, below, or both, as is apropos. Toys to represent what makes a person a butthead!
SET OF 12 DIFFERENT BUTTHEADS
LARGE HOBERMAN SPHERES: One of the most exciting toys I have ever discovered – saw someone playing with it at the Walker Art Center Gift Store in Minneapolis. It seemed to explode with possibilities: the hard core in the center, the ability to expand and contract, open and close, just like human beings. It demonstrates the way we can lock ourselves up, become emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually constipated to the point where only heavy-duty drugs or drinking can open us up again, unfortunately then releasing our frustrations, hatreds, violence, and fears onto others in the vicinity, just like an old-fashioned jailbreak. The Hoberman mimics well the machinations of the human soul in both its agonies and ecstasies!
LARGE HOBERMAN SPHERE AVAILABLE IN 4 COLOR SCHEMES:
RAINBOW
FIREFLY
GLOW-IN-THE-DARK LIME GREEN
GLOW-IN-THE-DARK PURPLE
THE HOBERMAN SPHERE & ACCESSORIES
SMALL HOBERMAN SPHERE: The small Hoberman Sphere does everything the larger one does, but it also oddly carries a version of Nazi swastikas in the center that draw together to form the hard inner circle that represents the “not see”-ing that happens when we close ourselves down, become hard-core, and refuse to see what is before us, clinging instead to our prejudices, fears, traumas and biases! DO NOT BE A NOT SEE!
AVAILABLE ONLY IN RAINBOW