Be prepared to enter multiple manifestations of gameplay.

 

There are, we're learning, many ways in each game to connect with a client, following the changing yet specific rules of each manifestation of play in ways that allow for meaningful therapeutic connection through each world's possibilities and boundaries. There are ways, too, in which a client may switch between entire games during a session, so there's a gentle argument to be made for special flexibility and patience when following clients' motives in terms of prepping and adapting to the changing circumstances and rules of engagement.