Today’s episode is dedicated to two readers of Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development (FPD): Austin Sparks and Ash Burton.
I answer both Austin’s and Ash’s question on working with more than just the individual youth in therapy. I address the challenge and merits, along with six guiding principles, and six strategies that I take.
Guiding Principles
1. Give Voice to the Voice-less
2. Listening to Each Other into Speech
3. Being a With-ness to Each Other
4. We are a Community of Internalised Others
5. When We Love, We Love Poorly
Strategies
1. Structure is “Where are we? were are we going? and why?
2. Mixing Individual and Conjoint Sessions
3. Allow Contradictory Perspectives
4. Express the Unspokens
5. How Healthy is the Family?
6. Practice of forgiveness
SHOWNOTES:
1. 10 Years of Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development (FPD). Frontiers Friday #189
2. Listening Into Speech: Will Say, Won’t Say, Can’t Say.
Quotes:
Understanding is love’s other name. If you don’t understand, you can’t love.
— Thich Nhat Hanh, in How to Love.
Forgiveness is the name of love practice among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly.
— Henri Nouwen.
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