Client: Chris
Title: Competent, Overloaded and Anxious
Indicator or core experience: Working hard to overcome original story of separation
Nourishment: “You can trust the universe, remember”
Hakomi skills that are illustrated by this session:
- How to invite a client to begin a session and trusting that you don’t need to make anything happen
- How to invite a client to stay with present moment experience eg. “let’s sit with…”
- Use of silence, waiting for the client
- Contact statements
- Naming adaptive behavior and inviting a friendship with that part
- Invitation to explore the inner slave driver and Chris adds “critic, bully”
- Tracking breath
- Relationship that invites the deeper issue of anxiety disorder to arise
- How to use taking over tension to keep client’s attention on present experience
- How to refine an experiment
Guides to Watching this video:
- Identify the three phases of the session using time tags
- Notice how I take the results of the first experiment (taking over tension) and at 18:10, I interpret the tension in the heart: “It’s as if your heart is aching…a weeping heart”
- How do I name a belief and what experiment do I use? What is the result of the experiment?
- How to take over the voice of wisdom as it arises
- In phase 3, when the old habits come in, how to invite the client to simply let the old patterns pass by
- Notice how I return to the original issue and test out the new idea of being able to choose
- Notice how the grandmother came into the process as an ally
- What relief happens at the end of the session as Chris has insights?
