Bodily Movement/Object Manipulation: Illustration From A Mediation:

	Listen for Operating Metaphor in Clients’ Language Pay Special Attention to Bodily Movement and Object Manipulation	Ask Questions to Help Model Clients’ Operating Metaphor and Improve Communication Clarify Logic of Bodily Movement/Object Manipulation Aspects of Source Domain	Expand Options by Extending Metaphor
Mom	“With everything I have to do it’s hard to get out of the house…”	Is it rough going? Are there obstacles? Rough on you? Are there burdens that weight you down, keeping you in? Is it a stretch to do some things? Hard to line things up?	How to smooth out? Lighten the burdens? Stretching as exercise. Organizing, sequencing.
Dad	“I want our daughter to be more in my life.”	Will she need to come into your life or you into hers? Is it time you need to receive or ways to participate?	In what places does yours and your daughter’s life go on together?

The phrases above contain some of the Journey metaphor, but all contain bodily movement/object manipulation. Talk about each in terms of:

(1) Listen for what movement/manipulation might be in the Source Domain of the metaphor,

(2) Ask questions to clarify the implied content, logic, procedure, and relationships of this movement/manipulation,

(3) Expand options by extending metaphor.