ABSTRACT
This chapter establishes an open and respectful therapeutic relationship, to center the imaginative practices of play and creativity, and to emphasize the extrinsic nature of the problem and the client's corresponding wholeness. It provides clients with a series of what Knill et al. called "enabling" or "coping" experiences. When imagination is used to facilitate coping experiences community wide, stakeholders are empowered to ask big questions and to participate critically, thus blurring the line between therapy and democratic education. According to Knill et al., intermodal Expressive arts therapy (EXA) identifies the overarching goal of therapy as an increase in the range of play, loosely defined as the client's ability to recognize and make sense of the multitude of ways through, and out of, states of stuckness. In the practice of intermodal EXA, imagination is key to the sought after expansion of range of play.
