Changing Chairs: Experiential Exercise for Exploration of Interpersonal Boundaries

Taking it one step further, the therapist may create a conflict through a group experiential exercise as a vehicle for learning. According to Hornyak and Baker (1989, p. 3) experiential treatment techniques are based on psychological principles, and are used for “increasing clients’ present awareness of feelings, perceptions, cognitions, and sen-

sations; that is, their in-the-moment experience. The method usually involves some degree of action on the clients’ part, either physical or imagined.”