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“Living is an interaction, a kind of knowing.” G.Gendlin PhD (philosophy of the implicit)
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A Dialogical Approach
weaving life’s tapestry
INTERVENTIONS, INTENSIVES and PRACTICES contain FREE notebooks, displayed on an easy to work through Learn Dash LMS, that give a structured overview of a small selection of the more mainstream theories and principles regarding narrative therapy. find out more in EXPLORATION.
Research TOPICS contains FREE notebooks that give an overview of the source of commonly experienced disabilities and discomforts and an up to date overview on theories relating to them.
FREE quality lectures, audiobooks, interviews, pdf’s, teacher notes and extended training collated IN ONE PLACE.
The word conversation is derived from the verb vetere (to turn) and con (with).
“Walking back and forth with someone, turning and going over the same ground from a variety of directions until what we already feel and think has opened up more into something unexpected, new or forwards.”
It is practically impossible to explain how conversation is generated or what its precise effect is, yet the immediate reaction and the subsequent discussion make it clear that these bits of spontaneous communication ARE the catalyst in important shifts in perspective and advance those that are in the conversation.
No amount of pre-planning could assure the appropriateness for that particular conversation in time; spontaneous remarks that focus on how you would be best helped today are not learned and dispensed ad verbatim on demand from manuals.
Why
Why would you like to have a conversation?
AT YOUR FINGERTIPS
How
How can I be of assistance in the conversation?
What
What would you like to get out of the conversation?
- Schultz's AUTOGENIC TRAINING
- Reichian BREATHWORK
- Feldenkrais' METHOD
- Hanna's SOMATICS
- Whithehouse's AUTHENTIC MOVEMENT
- Gendlin's FOCUSING
- Fromm's Art of Being
What do you do?
Do you enjoy living like that?
Would you change anything?
What are you NOT doing?
What has and what has not worked for you?
What does success look like?
Is there a time scale?
Have you done this before?
Can you identify a goal for yourself that you want to work towards?
What do you need?
What do you require to achieve your goal?
When do you propose to start?
Do you have what you need to start?
How much time can you realistically commit to this?
Do you need to prioritises ?
How would you like to be supported?
How regular and/or flexible does this support need to be?
Do you know how to access support if you meet resistance?
Do you have a way of sharing and observing your progress?
guided INTERVENTIONS
the backbone of current NARRATIVE therapies, clinical frameworks and theoretical principles regarding conscious thought and behaviours.
Language is living and growing. With every re-telling the message is adapted to suit.
There is however good reason to honour the etymology of a theory. For the original words are crafted in a composition reflecting the meaning of its academic or clinical composers research and often lifework.
This website aims to give an authentic walk-through account of the theories that have found their way into mainstream care and with that commercial re-purposing.
Ideology and consumerism more than occasionally have somewhat rewritten the proverbial Proverbs beyond proverbial phrasing.
A re-telling evolution applied by those who sell their services. Obscuring their source. Guiding down paths somewhat parallel.
Knowledge is build on the shoulders of those who came before, not by stepping on them and re-branding theirs as your own.
Engaging in re-thinking daily reality and attempting to interact with it through conversation and consideration, to come to a personal theory, is what I believe to be of value to move life on beyond self-knowledge and exploration and come to change.
Only a fraction of research papers find their way into the NHS system. Dogmatic ideologies hold limited benefit. Life is chaotic and people are complex which is why I propose personalised meta-theories and interdisciplinary constructs .
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A conversation,
- at the point of need
- focused on one step forward right now
- with an option for more meetings if you want that
“The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of doubt. ”
Rollo May
“When scientific conversations cease dogma rather than knowledge begins to rule.”
Jaak Panksepp
“The man of knowledge must not only love his enemies, he must also be able to hate his friends.”
Nietzsche
- Laengle's existential analysis
- Bowlby & Ainsworth's attachment
- Gilbert's Evolution Biology Regarding Compassion
- van Deurzen's Existential Compass
- Panksepp's affective neuroscience
- Solm's Neuropsycho-analysis
guided INTENSIVES
Overview of theories that look at pre- and subconscious and affect and its interaction with the conscious, cognitive and behavioural. Aiming to increase the depth of your knowledge rather than to increase the scope.
DURING
PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERFERENCE OR DEPENDENCE
The belief that something or someone is required in order to achieve or avoid an affect, event or ability.
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For change to be effective, it will have to be your change, not the acceptance of an image imposed on you.
Shaping YOUR future
you are so much more
research TOPICS
A category-mistake is made if we accept the notion that support is a technique or procedure. Therapeutic dialogue is a dedicated form of interaction.
About
neutralising the 'expert' position in narrative therapy
A dutiful application nor me knowing your whole story does not concern itself with directly addressing your problem today.
Avoiding fixed positions and ideological traditions that stop the therapeutic conversation happening, is what I care to safeguard. Not description but elucidation is the ultimate goal of communication. Rendering prescribing or imposing redundant.
Individual support can’t be scripted in advance. It is at its most effective during moments of improvisation that arise out of authentic (non-verbal) conversational flow between you and another (me or someone else). This is called drifting in some ‘manuals’.
Every interaction is unique. Involving unexpected twists and turns. Effective support does therefor not exclusively come from treatment manuals and empirically validated methods. The paring between yourself and another requires a certain creative ambiguity that can’t be reduced to exercises, bottled or anchored in a contract that defines roles and sets boundaries.
Every empirically supported approach has shown roughly the same level of result when applied by disciples who turn clients to models (1999 Miller). It turns out that receiving an instruction manual at the point of need is not less effective then being ‘treated’.
It is a well researched fact that people benefit most from help at the point of need. Furthermore, 70% of people who were satisfied with their therapeutic session did not book any more sessions, the single session had moved them forward sufficiently.
Manualised treatment protocols can create a false objective and the impression that a pre-proposed desired result can only be reliably produced when the manualised procedures are implemented. This is referred to as fidelity and turning a client to a model. It’s focus is not you, but instead increasing or securing the evidence base for the manual.
I myself hold the pluralistic view proposed by McLeod and Cooper. Humans are complex and inherently chaotic. Life is too, so let’s apply all that what works and never more of what does not.
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- Insured and UK NOS cert. qualified for working online and face to face with UK residents in cognition based and existential therapeutic modalities.
- Holding current relevant British and International intermediate and advanced professional memberships.
- Compliant with ongoing CP requirements and actively enrolled in academic courses to ensure compliance with CE targets.
- Subject to external supervision to ensure ethical, professional, educational and self care standards are met and reviewed.
THE AIM:
TO IMPROVE YOUR HERE AND NOW BY BEING AVAILABLE AT HOC TO ASSIST IN A MANNER GUIDED AND DIRECTED BY YOU.