text: Synchronize – The group is required to accomplish a particular task in unison, or in a specifically organized pattern despite limitations.
  Support / Carry – The group is required to hold / carry group members or props to complete a specific task.
  Let’s be honest…. Metaphors drive Adventure Therapy. They are used all of the time, and are pretty crucial in helping our clients make connections. There’s been volumes written about metaphors, examples of metaphors, effectiveness of metaphors, and so on. Specifically, we love ISOMORPHS! Isomorphic metaphors are when the two object share similar structures, so in adventure therapy, an activity is an isomorph if it has similar structures to the client’s situation.
  I haven’t always felt like there was a clear way to articulate to new adventure therapists how these beautiful isomorphic connections are created. It’s always felt a bit like intuition, magic or a secret handshake to me. What I’ve decided is that it is a practiced skill. I see experienced facilitators weave elaborate metaphors effortlessly, and I’ve seen other facilitators get all tangled up by their metaphors. Even consulting the 7KMP model in the book Adventure Therapy: Theory, Research, and Practice, the recommendation is to “select a metaphoric adventure experience that just naturally “matches” the client’s issue and potential solutions to this issue.” Its not “just natural” when you first get started, and I still put a good chunk of my planning into this topic. To be fair, the book also discusses the use of double entendres and gerunds as a way to help create kinesthetic metaphors within an activity; however, it still seems to me that the process requires alarge selection of back pocket activities to choose from.
  One thing that I’ve begun to notice is that there are a few consistent isomorphs that I use different versions of as I facilitate different activities. I might facilitate landmines as an isomorph of a client’s “journey into sobriety” or I might facilitate stepping stones as an isomorph of a group’s “journey to connection.” What I noticed is that several themes showed up in my facilitation, and (here’s the cool part) I noticed that they lined up pretty well with the categories of actions that I have been working on!
  Since we know that action words and gerunds (verbs disguised as nouns by adding “ing”) help us to build isomorphs, I found it really interesting that a lot of these action archetypes are also consistent isomorphic themes when I am facilitating for groups, families and individuals. My hunch is that breaking activities down into their archetypal elements is not only a helpful way to invent or adapt activities intentionally, but also it can represent a more strategic way to select activities intentionally. For new adventure therapists, or those of us who sometimes need a little bit of extra time and planning to create rich metaphorical connections with our clients, this might just be a simple way to make isomorphs and metaphors more accessible!
  Take a look at the list of Action Archetypes again. Which of these archetypes (if any) show up regularly in your facilitation? I’d love to hear how (or if) this resonates with you! Leave a comment below.
  
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