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From: Joseph Dewey
Date: 08 Oct 2009
Time: 06:20:58 -0500
Remote Name: 63.82.19.2
Hi Lisa, This is an excellent presentation, especially the therapy techniques you provide for cluttering therapy. Specifically, how you walk the listener though how to use the games of Taboo and Catch Phrase with cluttering therapy. My question for you is how did you come up with this technique, or how did you learn that these games would be helpful for clutterers? I'm a clutterer, and I'd like to note that I really hate these games in a group situation, and would do almost anything to avoid going to a party where people are playing those games. Now that I'm rationally thinking through this, instead of trying to avoid a game party, I'm realizing it's because I have an unusually low aptitude level for these games, and it’s kind of embarrassing, because I’m usually excellent at almost any other kind of game. This is actually a good thing, because I think that whatever I would develop in learning to be good at these games would directly correlate to what I need to fix my speech from breaking down. I'd also like to note that if you use these games in cluttering therapy, then you should expect the clutterer to have a very hard time with playing them. This is true, especially if they’re like me and they are missing something, that mastering these games would develop. It would be kind of like if somebody grew up in a country where the shoes never had shoelaces, and then moved out of that country, and had to learn how to tie shoes for the first time as an adult. It’s doable, but it will just take more time than most folks. Even though I'd hate going to a party and playing the games, I think Taboo and Catch Phrase would be a very enjoyable and valuable to play and discuss in a therapy situation, if it were done slowly and comfortably enough.