What is the 6 part synopsis of the expansive core meditation?
- Get client into mindfulness - noticing the present moment
- Direct client to go back into childhood memories - looking for moments where they felt full of life, playfulness, wonder/awe. Giving several examples.
- Deepen into that memory, see if there is a sense of a core quality from examples of expansive self qualities.
- Encourage client to get in touch with this quality and connect them to core organizers and embodying them in the present moment.
- MFQ for belief/conviction connected to these qualities
- Bring the transformation with them as they stand, then walk, then come back into connection.
What can the therapist offer if client reports elements of their expansive core got them into trouble and may have hesitance when leaning into this? (3 parts)
- This is what life did to you when you were acting from your expansive core.
- We are taught to be afraid of our positive traits and that if I’m my full person, I’ll be disowned.
- However, you really are this expansive core.
What is the role of pain? How can the interpretation of pain get confused when we were kids and lead to a sense of shame?
Pain is there to tell us that something is wrong, not that we are wrong.
When we experience pain when we’re young, we interpret that pain as being something wrong with us and not something that’s wrong the situation that’s happening around us.
Instead of telling clients they are good, they are worthy of love, etc. what do we help clients do?
Help clients have an embodied experience of those beliefs, e.g. innate goodness, loveability,
When doing developmental work, what’s the value of tapping in/resourcing with their sense of expansive core before going into the difficulty?
Helps the remaining process not feel so exhausting/burdensome
What’re the body-centered metaphors for trauma vs developmental injury?
Trauma is like my body chopped up into different parts
Developmental injury is like parts of me locked in a dungeon. Often that dungeon is guarded too.
How can we determine if a client is just having a “normal” reaction to a situation or if there is a developmental injury also at play?
If there’s trouble figuring out what to do with the distressing emotion, then it could be a developmental injury. Put another way, a sense of stuckness in a particular emotion without signs of problem-solving is a sign of developmental injury.
Rebeca’s closed fist analogy to describe the accessing phase of developmental injury
The developmental injury experience is represented by a closed fist. When we find one core organizer, it’s like lifting up one finger. We continue studying other core organizers and the lifts other fingers to a total of 5 core organizers/5 fingers.
When the client finally drops into deep emotion what do we do next?
Stop doing the 5 steps to mindfulness and just do empathic attunement.
Are adaptive strategies inherently problematic?
No - the problem is that a client can be stuck and not have the ability to choose other strategies that might better fit a situations.
When do we use the more directive technique of helping a client see the places where an adaptive strategy doesn’t work?
If after a while of celebrating the functions, protections and benefits of the strategy, the client does not volunteer some limitations.
What is a probe? (4 things)
- A verbal statement (repeated twice) that is the opposite of a single limiting belief held by the client
- Potentially nourishing
- Delivered in mindfulness as an experiment
- WIth different purposes depending on the stage of process its used in
If you don’t really believe a probe as the therapist, what should you do?
Don’t say it because the client in mindfulness can sense that it’s not true for you.
When making a probe, should you the therapist bring yourself into the statement (e.g. I am here for you)?
Not during the accessing stage because that’s too narrow. Perhaps during the integration stage.
What is a rough, 8-step outline of the wording that can be used with a client when offering a probe as an experiment?
- I’m going to offer you a potentially nourishing statement
- Let’s see what happens in your when I say these words.
- Let me know when you’re ready?
- Notice what happens when I say X
- Deliver the probe in authentic prosody/tone, twice.
- Pause
- Track
- Contact
What are probes used for in the Framing stage? (1 thing)
Used to evokes Adaptive Strategy for study
What are probes used for in the Accessing stage? (3 things)
- Clarifies and/or challenges the limiting belief
- Evokes the procedural tendencies of the limiting belief
- Deepens emotional pain related to attachment
What are probes used for in the Processing stage? (1 thing)
Probe often changes into a new belief to can be deepened and embodied through all core organizer
What are probes used for in the Integration stage? (1 thing)
Enhance retention of new belief by contacting the core organizers that are in alignment with it and project into future with this belief active
How can a prior probe be altered for re-use at transformation?
It can be made “bite sized” making it smaller in number of people it involves or time– you have two friends that can support you. Make it smaller
One exercise to help provide experience of grasping somebody’s hands through telehealth? (3 steps)
- Have the client put pillow or cushion between knees and hold it tightly as an anchor
- Therapist outstretch their hands towards the camera
- The client can grab the pillow and hold it with some resistance, just like somebody else’s hands.
What does ego dystonic mean?
Something that does not feel like the ego - “not me”
Why is it important that the client has an observing adult self when doing developmental work?
Because the client needs to know the difference between the adult and the child.
What three questions can we use to discover an implicit child state underlying a current, explicit issue?
- Is this familiar?
- How old/young is this part?
- Is there a memory that comes up?
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