Play Episode 46 Here When is crying productive? When isn’t it? When do we encourage it? When do we avoid it? Those are good questions. None of which will be answered for you in this episode. Instead you’ll feel more informed […]
046: Crying and Stuff Like That See More »
Play Episode 45 Here One of the most common questions I’ve received is what to do after completing the official 3-year Somatic Experiencing training. How to deepen, expand or cultivate more skill with this paradigm for working with traumatic stress
045: Master Classes, Assisting or Auditing: Moving forward or going back first? See More »
Play Episode 44 Here Cogitating, reviewing, pre-playing our sessions after hours, we’re bound to do it. Taking work home with you is a known stress point in modern life and yet some professions demand it. The trauma recovery specialization is
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Play Episode 43 Here When listening to a storyline or following a somatic experiencing style investigation it’s helpful to have a clear way to recognize what is less and what is more important to reflect. This episode is lifted straight out
Play Episode 42 Here Some sessions are going to go places we don’t want them to. When that starts to happen we can hope to be skillful in moving things to the better direction. If we can see early on
042: Leaning on the Contract See More »
Play Episode 41 Here The clarity of our feedback is key. From timing, to amount, to directness and indirectness and so much more, the “correct feedback” matters most in a distressed nervous system full of noise and confusion. We can’t,
041: Clarity of Feedback See More »
Play Episode 40 Here We’re going to make mistakes. It’s a fact of the complexity of our work. Fortunately, as part of the learning process mistakes are profoundly helpful. Let’s pay attention to them. “There is no such thing as
040: Cheerleading Mistakes See More »
Certainly it’s not only so that we’ll give our clients the feeling of being in an interrogation. We ask all those questions for multiple reasons, the most important being that they help us direct attention without telling our clients what
039: Why We Ask Questions See More »
Play Episode 38 Here Let’s face it. This stuff is massively complicated. Anyone who is going to get good at it is going to need to experiment and try new things on. You know, risk making mistakes! I think we
038: It’s a Try It Out Kind of Thing See More »
Play Episode 37 Here Closing this mini-series on Choice Points with a brief discussion on choosing when to go to sleep and other – outside of the session space – opportunities to elect for options that are more helpful to
037: Choice Points – When to Sleep See More »