| Family choreography is a technique developed by Peggy Papp and used in many treatment programs. To explore some of your own family of origin material, choose members of the class to represent all the salient members of your family of origin and position them physically according to the roles they played in your family. Then position yourself in your own role. You can hold a particular arrangement for a minute or two and feel the power of the rigid positions, or direct movement and interactions that represent your family dynamics. Then have someone stand in for you and walk around the creation you have fashioned, observing the stand in family members. Finally, change the action or structure in some way that would have been positive for you. Move positions, change interrelationships, remove members. Do whatever you like and, again, view what you’ve done. |
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