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1 Focus on your most physically active time of life. What did you learn from your body that now affects your practice as a counselor? For instance, are you more verbally direct when you are fatigued, or do you need a specific amount of exercise to feel mentally alert? Discuss your need or lack of need for movement with a colleague and notice how much structured or spontaneous physical activity plays a part in the lives of your clients.

2 A dance is usually described as movement that is structured and usually performed on some level in public. What types of dances do you observe among clients and nonclients you know? How do such dances either get to the heart of issues or sidestep important issues?

3 Lead a milling-around exercise with a group of trusted friends or colleagues. In this exercise, individuals simply walk around and participate with others as instructed by the leader—by making or not making eye contact, by touching or not touching one another with shoulders or elbows. The idea is to assess how comfortable each member feels moving in a certain manner. The entire exercise is brief (about 2–5 minutes) and is processed with the group leader for as long as needed afterward.