Generolo Jono Žemaičio Lietuvos karo akademija

The article aims at revealing the possibilities of application of dance and movement therapeutic experiments in consultations of soldiers and sailors couples and families. The article discusses the essential principles of Gestalt therapy in applying dance and movement therapy for couples and families, who start creating their couple life or are willing to change, to improve their current presence in the couple or in the family. In order to get answers to the issues of the research, i.e., “What happens, when we are dancing in couple? Moreover, what happens in the marriage, the couple life?“, we have analyzed the metaphor of “the dance of the couple, family life“ through the experiences of the contact cycle. We have provided the results of the theoretical – practical research of changes in couples and families as several pre-defined categories: 1) dual reversibility: exchange of the same behavior; 2) interaction synchronization; 3) other possible models of the couple and family life dance.