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This presentation will show how brief activities can be used to help clients access and enhance their naturally occurring resources. Experiential activities help to increase client engagement and participation in therapy. The philosophy behind utilizing in-session activities and how they relate to bringing forth existing client resources will be learned in this session. During the presentation, a live demonstration of various Experiential activities will be conducted to help demonstrate the process of Experiential techniques as well as the usefulness for clients.

Experiential activities can be used to integrate models. The techniques developed by the presenter will be presented. By the end of the presentation, participants will have gained the foundations of using Experiential activities as well as the principles of several Experiential techniques that have proven useful in his work with supervisees, individuals, couples, and families.

The educational objectives are listed.

1. List three reasons that experiential activities are useful for marriage and family therapists.
2. Describe how experiential activities can help clients to access existing resources.
3. List one or more experiential activities one could utilize with clients.

Session may be edited to preserve confidentiality.