Experiential exercises in MFT training: Gender, power, and diversity

An experiential exercise that is used to empower Marriage and Family Therap y students and systematically introduce students to feminist themes is desc ribed. Faculty in the university's theatre department recruit their student s to serve as client families. Role-play exercises with theatre students ba sed on vignettes developed by clinical faculty increases realism and includ es other training benefits. This approach is consistent with a feminist mod el of training and supervision.