MODALITIES
live video call
audio-only call
asynchronous
e-mail & correspondence
synchronous
e-mail & text messaging
annotating journals or correspondence
CONNECTION with DIRECTION
Dialogue
A communication process in which participants may say or hear things they never said before, and from which they may emerge irrevocably changed.
- We speak openly and listen respectfully and attentively.
- Derogatory attributions, attacks and defensiveness have no role in dialogue.
- Participants try not to make assumptions about motives or character of others.
- Questions are sincere and driven by curiosity.
Promoting respectful inquiry, and stimulating a conversation that allows important issues to surface freely to improve the way in which people with significant differences relate to each other.
GENUINE dialogue
“A form of meeting with an orientation toward connection and relationship.”
(Buber’s Dialogue theory).
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Genuine dialogue starts when each of the participants really has in mind the other in their present and particular beings and turns to them with the intention of establishing a living mutual relation between himself and them.
ROBUST dialogue
A dialogue between two equals, committed to the process. With the aim to learn from each other. Exposing our self to the possibility of changing our mind or at least figuring out what common ground we share.
philosophic
EXISTENTIAL dialogue
Leangle’s
Meaning of Being
Van Deurzen’s
Existential Compass
EXISTENTIAL
loneliness
EXISTENTIAL
vacuum
EXISTENTIAL
crisis
human givens
INTENSIVE NOTEBOOKS
INTERVENTION NOTEBOOKS
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A dialogue
What's that?
We will use Cooper and McLeod ‘s PLURALISTIC FRAMEWORK because it makes a great deal of sense.
We will trust in our combined knowledge. You know your life right now. I will endeavour to be supportive.
For more details please consider listening to this (recorded in March 2021) or any lecture by Mick Cooper.
PLURALISTIC framework
We will apply the theoretic concept of a singular conversation, that takes place at your point of need, with an option to arrange further meetings, but without pre-supposed expectation.
Research reliably shows that bringing it all into the moment with the conviction to move one step forward is the most practised form of talk therapeutics, in spite of medical and psychological manuals prescribing a course of treatment.
Professor Windy Dryden’s short video highlights the reasons for this being the reality and benefits of this strategy.
FIVE PROCESS VARIABLES
are reliably present in any therapeutic endeavour.
- your motivation
- your STAGE OF CHANGE
- the collaboration between you and me,
- our hopes and beliefs
- and lastly the model or specific approach (approx.15% according to Scott&Miller)
COMMON FACTORS theory
COMMON FACTORS research shows that certain common elements underlie all practices and that no one approach is more effective.
COMMON FACTORS research investigates if the client and clinician account for a greater proportion of therapeutic change than specific techniques or types of therapy.
This theory seeks to both
- define efficacious unifying similarities within talking therapeutics
- as well as define all of the elements of a particular school which make it successful, including those non-specified in the manuals, but never the less present and applied.
The common factors model has recent and long-standing research support of several kinds. The model affirms many widely used therapeutic practices and has led to the development of several procedures to enhance therapeutic outcomes.
stages of change model as defined by Prochaska & Di Clemente.
WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF NO CHANGE?
ARE THERE BENEFITS TO MAKING A CHANGE?
DO YOU HAVE OBSTACLES IN YOUR WAY?
DOING WHAT IT TAKES TO BELIEVE IN YOUR ABILITIES.
REWARD BEING CAPABLE
PROTECT YOUR SELF-CONFIDENCE
evening bookings available
Thinking at the edge about research for Post-Graduates.
Applying Gene Gendlin’s TAE to live forward and create.
priority scheduling
Existential Loneliness & Pseudo Dementia
The essence of you. Please accept this warm invitation to use it not loose it.
dopaminergic sustain support
For when you are swimming a little lower in the water than usual.
To sustain means both to strengthen and to suffer from.
