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The complex way in which individuals in families relate to one another is often referred to as the family dance. In healthy families, “the partners do not need to hold on tightly . . . because they know they are . . . moving to the same rhythm” (Lindbergh, 1955/1975, p. 104). In dysfunctional families, however, members cling closely to one another and hesitate to let their members change, much less leave home. Thus, the results of family dances are either positive or negative. Healthy families move to resolve common problems and move toward a final completing of themselves as a functional, working unit. Unhealthy families take steps to hinder the growth of persons within the family unit by keeping them developmentally delayed and stuck in nonproductive patterns.

Three family dance and movement exercises can assist families in distress. One is family choreography, which involves the whole family in a physical and mental experience. The other two, enactment and paradox, are more artistic ways to help families move in harmony.