A short podcast/video excerpt in which a speaker describes using Legos in therapy to help clients dramatize and access emotions. The speaker links this technique to the "inner child" model, arguing that entering a playful frame enables people to name and explain experiences they can't access in ordinary day-to-day frameworks.
Eddie, as you were describing it, as this model, I just was in a training last week with a guy who is a marriage and family therapist and uses Legos as a way to have people, like, kind of dramatize where they're at emotionally. And it's like, hold on a second. We're playing with toys now. This is what we're doing in therapy. I'm playing with these toys that my kids play with. And it's cool, because if you just allow yourself to enter that space, there are some incredibly powerful things that can happen. And what I hear you saying is it's the same thing with this inner child model, that it puts us in a different frame of mind that helps maybe bring language or explain our experiences in a way that where we're at currently with that, with, you know, our day to day framework, we can't actually enter into.
