ABSTRACT
Here is a question that I often ask students in my training workshops:
How does a therapy session resemble a walk?
I invariably take great delight in the responses this question elicits. Here are just a few:You’ve got to use your whole body for a walk, and you’ve got to use your whole body for a therapy session.
There’s a rhythm when you walk and a rhythm when you’re doing therapy.
You’re breathing differently than normal when you you’re outside walking, and I’m definitely breathing differently when I’m treating someone who is difficult.
A walk and a therapy session help you to see things differently, from a different perspective—you take notice of different things.
You’re moving when you walk, and you’re moved when you’re treating patients.
Many of my therapy sessions with kids are walks!
I’m tired at the end of a walk, and I’m tired at the end of a therapy session!
My mind goes in a thousand directions when I take a walk, and the same thing happens when I’m with certain patients.
In what ways do your therapy sessions resemble walks, and what are some other activities that you find that your therapy sessions do resemble—or could resemble?