Chair work Flashcards
Dialogue
Movement
Emotion
Immersion
Horizontal - Vertical
Dissociation
Dialogue
Displacement
Self multiplicity
Information exchange
Transformation - Consolidation, Cultivation, Internalisation , Reconcilation, Assimilation, Innovation
Separation
Animation - embodiment, personification, objectification
Dialogue
Dissociation
Animation
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Using entire body (complete embodiment)
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Using a body part (e.g. hands) (partial embodiment)
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Imagining a part in space or a chair (personification)
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Representing parts with objects (objectification)
How might you apply these processes when
Phases of
chairwork
Warm up
Action
Closure
Questions to ask
When I see you I feel….?
When I see you I remember…?
When I see you … I want to tell you?
What I want and need from you is…?
What I want for you is…?
Share anything else…?
Are you speaking from your wise side, critical side, compassionate side, detatched side
What does this part want to say back to you?
Prinples
Dissociation
Dialogue
Displacement
Main Outcomes
Past - Tolerance - Compassion
Present - Presence - Mindfulness
Future - Action- Values
Positive
Reflection, growth, learning (past) vs engagement action (future)
Negative
shame, guilt, loss (past) vs worry, fear, anxiety (future)
Simplify
Past present Future
Ontrack - Corrective mechanism (road with sides)
which is hijacked by learning mechanism for perfectionsism, criticism etc
Focused attention - Diffuse attention
Key Online Skills
Assessing, Motivation, Roling and Deroling
“Actions which signal the movement in and out
of roles, or the opening and closing of enactments”
Doubling - “Giving voice to what is not yet known oris unsaid by the client”
Non verbal communication - “Inviting the client to articulate the meaning of postures, gestures, movements, and other bodily communications”
Defence of the
Self
Self multiplicity
Restructure fears of negative evaluation through self defence
Information exchange
Expose the client to their ‘worst case scenario’
Transformation
Develop and rehearse assertiveness skills
Two Chair
Enactments
Self multiplicity
Highlight the unhelpful consequences of cognitive processes
Information exchange
Encourage decentring from cognitive processes
Transformation
Re-evaluate problematic beliefs about cognitive processes
Two Chair
Enactments
Self multiplicity
Highlight the unhelpful consequences of cognitive processes
Information exchange
Encourage decentring from cognitive processes
Transformation
Re-evaluate problematic beliefs about cognitive processes
Intrapersonal
Role Play
Self multiplicity
Explore the origins, triggers, and content of cognitive processes
Information exchange
Establish the underlying functions of cognitive processes
Transformation
Encourage decentring from cognitive processes
Compassion
for the Self
Self multiplicity
Embody and enact the Compassionate Self
Information exchange
Experience a ‘shift in state’ into the Compassionate
Mind
Transformation
To experience self directed compassion
Two Chair
Self Soothing
Self multiplicity
Identify a soothing ‘other’ in the client’s past or present life
Information exchange
Express care, warmth, and understanding from this external perspective
Transformation
Experience comfort and soothing from the other
