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Activities for Family Therapy

If you want that session will successful then specialist/therapist involve you in group therapy. Family therapy activities are important for you to make sure that clients are participate actively in therapy and ready to go through the tempest together.

These activities are based on the basically conversations and build-up undertaking to help through the sessions. Basics family counselling activities are as under:

1. Emotions Ball in family therapy

Among the family therapy activities, this technique works well to tell their emotions, especially for those the children who may be uncomfortable to describing what they are feeling. Using a beach ball because it has colours, and on each colour, write an emotional statement. Gather the members in a round shape and toss the ball here and there. Might you have emotions like joy, happiness and sadness, etc. when a family member catches the ball, allow them to explain a time when they the particular emotion. The goal of this technique is to help them out that the families discuss their emotions while all other listen.

2. Coloured Candy Go Around

In icebreaking activities, this technique named as “coloured candy go” can be much effective. In this technique every person of family involves and everyone allows them to talk about self. You will need of M&M or Skittles. Give every member seven pieces of candy and let them classify them out by colours. Instruction for these people depending on the number of colours each person has; they will respond to the following prompts:

        Green: To describe about your family in some words

        Orange: What do you think that what you family need to improve. 

        Red: Describe the worries they think

        Yellow: Describe their most epic memories

        Purple: Describe the fun activities which the family does

3. Mirroring Activity

In this activity, every member plays a role of mirror for the other member. The purpose of this, is to repeat every movement of the leader without touching each other. When members do this, members become easier to receive others emotional reactions by reducing their desires.

4. Miracle question

All persons have their own dreams for their future. But due to some issue he cannot not achieve them. Goal of this technique allows to everyone to listen and understand that what every person have future desires. when every person knows about each other then, it is easy to support each other.

5. Family Gift therapy

    While in family therapy, art making supplies and a gift bag are provided by therapist. Each family member comes with a gifted idea that each member wants at that time and the gifted idea should be helpful for every person. Here you watch how every member take part and play role in the work. The aim of this, to create teamwork, define roles and analyze how they can compete their conflicts and challenges. It also helps the therapists to better under family interactions. 

6. Stand Up, Sit Down

In this activity some truths will be unclosed. here the is question is How? So, a member will give a statement, and if it really applies to another person, then they will sit down. This technique gives you to chance to recognize in a fun and casual manner with no reservations.

7. Feelings Hot potato /Stress balls

its depending on what you choose, a potato or a stress ball. after selected, play music and pass the ball or potato to another person step by step. A person which has the ball or potato when music stops, he shares a thought or feelings and pleasant memory, according depending on the topic. this therapy activity goal is to be fun, and this will certainly bring in the smile.

8.Feelings Walk – Family Therapy Activities

just like in musical chairs but this will in a new style. arrange the seats in a round shape and put sticky notes with an emotional word. As the music plays, every member goes around and sit when music stops. When they sit on the chair, call that emotional word and explain the word in statement.

9.Feelings Charade in Therapy

In this therapeutic technique use written charade cards which is written an emotional letter, one member pick-up a card and just act out the emotion not in verbal form but facial. This gives a clue to therapist to analyze that how clients express their feelings in family therapy activity. It is best for teenagers.

Conclusion

Every family member must play a role for sessions in activities for group therapy to be successful. this may take time to overcome past deep sorrows or negotiate change. Each member must include in discussions and play their role part to making family therapy beneficial and its effects long-lasting.