The thoughts, perceptions or feelings, which the counsellor conveys, always refer to that which the client is unaware of. By necessity, this means that such messages are not always comfortable for the client (otherwise the contents would not be unconscious). This has several consequences: firstly, it is important that the counsellor addresses issues, otherwise a …
“Whilst listening to you I get an inner image of a deep, waterless fountain, at the bottom of which is a tender figure full of longing, looking up to see if there is someone there.” The development of an inner non-selective perception for such intuitive images or metaphors and the maintenance of these during the …
Personal responsibility means deciding what I influence and what I accept. A necessary step in order to broaden these internal choice possibilities is being able to choose between the different self-representations. This is particularly important in the processing of internal conflicts, because psychological change happens when one can experience these conflicts in the activated state. …
In a particular phase of the psychological change processes (see “<a href=”https://metatheorie-der-veraenderung.info/wpmtags/fruchtbare-innere-konflikte/”>Fruchtbare innere Konflikte”</a>) it is all about building up tension between the self-representation which experiences the need and that, which avoids the need or fights it. A part of a client’s development of his personal responsibility is to clearly experience that he can either …
That which the client does not speak about is just as important as that which he tells. Why? You can only narrate and bring those concerns into counselling of which you are conscious. If, then, the counsellor only occupies himself exclusively with that, which the client tells him, something goes wrong. When a manager never …
Dysfunctional patterns, in the context of conscious and unconscious processes, are particularly often characterised by the fact that there are contradictions and conflicts between conscious and unconscious impulses (“I want to, but somehow I never do it!” or “Somehow this happens to me again and again, although I don’t really want it to!”) or two …
How can unconscious processes be perceived and recognised? Firstly, a state of presence and agenda-free, non-selective perception (<b>Präsenz</b> und absichtslosem <b>Gewahrsein</b>) is required. The non-selective perception directs itself not only on the focus of the conversation (content, prominent moments, emotions etc), but also on the small scenes around the edges, on the waves at the …
“Basically, you are telling me something very sad, but you are smiling at the same time. What meaning do you attach to that?” From a metatheory point of view, the perception of incongruence is a counsellor’s constant activity. Incongruences enrich the understanding and thus the formation of hypotheses. They also help to get a sense …
The formative activity of social systems is communication, just as thinking and perception are the sole activities of psychological systems and metabolism is the sole activity of organismic systems. Just as the psyche cannot have digestion, it cannot communicate. The psyche can process perceptions (=experience and thinking), but no one can think or feel in …
A technique which is not understood becomes a trick. This statement by Gestalt Therapist Fritz Perl still applies today. Counselling tools build upon the counsellor’s self-perception, his perception of others and his internal attitude. Furthermore, the counsellors require a comprehensive, theoretical map, so that they know why they use exactly this intervention, for this client’s …