ABSTRACT
DESCRIPTION Most people are aware of the usefulness of scaling questions and the questions that often flow from and through the scale, but often the scale can be quite sedentary: the therapist in her or his chair, asking the questions, although often the therapist’s hands move as she or he asks the scale. In thinking about this, we thought that it might be enjoyable, educational, and different to get people to walk the scale. Often in our practice and in the practice of others, particularly with children, the corners of a room stand for the zero to ten of the scale (Hackett & Shennan, 2007). What we believe might be different here is in placing the couple
achieved their goal. We ask the couple to move or not move to where they think they are now. The point they move to is from where we view the usual questions around the scale to flow. One difference we have noticed, though, is that the couple often answer the questions to each other rather than the therapist as they stand looking at each other rather than looking at the therapist. We have found that this often inculcates a sense of further closeness and intimacy.
