ABSTRACT
Language plays a key role in shaping interactions, both from the perspective of facilitating communication when we speak the same language and hindering it when we fail to understand each other. This chapter investigates the capacity for STP to create a common language through the bricks and to move beyond the spoken words. Using an STP approach, facilitators can overcome a number of the limitations presented by reliance on spoken language, using the facets inherent to the technique. These include actively “listening” to the model in its physical form, open-ended questioning and inquiry directed to the model, maintaining and deepening therapeutic metaphors, and prompting storytelling or storymaking to help clients express themselves fully.
