Checklist of Basic Co-Counselling
Techniques
- 1) CELEBRATING
- My qualities.
- My skills.
- My body and mind.
- Celebrating others.
- Celebrating differences.
- Non-verbal celebration.
- 2) ATTENTION SWITCHING
- Attention out to the environment.
- Physical actions requiring some attention.
- Simple mental tasks.
- Positive memories.
- 3) HELPING DISCHARGE HAPPEN: Focusing on Specifics
- Focus on a specific event.
- Talk through event using present tense.
- Use concrete literal description.
- Finish with "What's left unsaid."
- HELPING DISCHARGE HAPPEN: Going
With Negative Feelings
- Repetition of Distress signals.
- Increasing the loudness of the voice.
- Involving body in postures and gestures appropriate to words and
feelings.
- Acting into Discharge.
- Roleplaying.
- HELPING DISCHARGE HAPPEN: Going Against
Negative Feelings
- Contradictions of Distress: content; voice; gesture; posture.
- Celebrating Distresses and people who upset you.
- Reversing roles; playing the other part of the Pattern recording.
- Physical Relaxation; going against chronic tensions.
- Physical arousal; going against paralysis, shut down, sag.
- Direction holding against Patterns.
- HELPING DISCHARGE HAPPEN: Exploring
Pattern Connections
- Following associations that occur spontaneously.
- Moving to earliest or strongest similar memory.
- Scanning: listing and /or talking through events connected by a
theme.
- Following signposts: making repeated responses to cue phrases.
- Exploring fantasies, images, symbols.
- 4) TARGET PRACTICE: Coping with Restimulation; Moving from Pattern
to Person
- Separations of past distress from present reality.
- Constructing ladders out of distress and patterns:
- a) Directions.
- b) Attention switching associations.
- TARGET PRACTICE: Rational Rehearsal; Being
and Acting as a New You
- "What's left unsaid?"
- Future Roleplay.
- Present and future reality.
- Commitment techniques.
- TARGET PRACTICE: Rational Thinking
- Creative thinking and problem solving.
- Goal Setting, short and long term.
- Action planning.
- Creative actions and learning new skills.
- Reprogramming.
The next section deals with each of the four main strategies in more
detail, following the order given in the above checklist.
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