Emergent Modelling Fundamentals

• The client creates in clay the ideas, thoughts and images that emerge when being asked the processing questions. Usually the client will choose colours of clay which are significant to him, these are to have no significance to the facilitator and the discussion of such is not to occur.
• Make sure you do not touch, move or take away the client’s clay.
• Everything is labelled that is made in Emergent Modelling, no matter how bad the label is. The correct procedure is to make one object then put a label on it. This maintains the separation between form and significance.

Stick to the process and if the session deviates, manage the client's communication then get back to the session.

The facilitator should not be wandering off the course of the session, asking questions or disturbing the client's flow. The purpose of the facilitator here is to just ask the question or provide an instruction, gently but firmly.

You keep the steps of the process separate.

A positive result would be when the client is experiencing some or complete relief from their issue, with a noticeable improvement in physical and emotional well being. Never leave a process until the original condition is in a better state than it was at the beginning. Always let the client finish the step they are on, before moving on to the next step.

Once the original condition vanishes, then begin again with a new focus or stop the session.

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