ABSTRACT
Long-stay clients are usually more withdrawn and take longer to form relationships, so that one can spend months on basic trust and cohesive games. It is important in all therapy to work at the pace the group sets for itself, but drama games are a valuable short cut. This is becoming obvious in all kinds of group training and activities, not just dramatherapy. Games are even used on management courses. Depending on the group, one can progress through a whole series of games to role play games and finally, role play itself. Here are a few: Trust Exercises, Eye Contact Games, Physical Contact Games, Sensory Perception and Body Awareness Games, Group Cohesion, Concentration: Listening games, awareness games, such games as walking with eyes closed and listening to partners' instructions against a background of noise. The essence of games is that they have rules.
