1. Week Introduction

 

 

• How does a psychologist think? Why do we psychologists have to learn to think? Isn't it enough to memorize it?

• Why body? What does it mean to include the body in a therapy session? Isn't listening to the story enough?

• What are the differences between the language of the body and the language in our mouth? Why does the body have a separate language?

• What is the Autonomic Nervous System? What's the use? How does it work? What about mine? Is it the same as everyone else's?

• What is perception? What is the importance of perception in therapy? How do sense organs work? Where does all the information we collect with our sense organs go?

• What is the difference between internal perception  and external perception?

• Demo1: What does the consultant's body tell us when he tells us his story?

• Practice 1: Exercise in reading body language

 

 

 

   2. Autonomic Nervous System

 

• Conscious perception etc. involuntary perception (perception vs.  neuroception)

• Introduction to three-layer brain theory

• The importance of the body in interpersonal relations.  Why do we always care what others think?

 

• What is stress

  • Definition of Stesin. Why is there stress? What's the use? Isn't this possible?

  • What does the word stress mean?

• Stress, Tension, Trauma. Aren't they all the same thing?

• What does stress mean for the body? What does “being stressed” mean? Have you ever thought?

• Let's think: What is the ruler of emotions in the chart? How do we use it? The impact of emotions on our body.

• Parasympathetic and Sympathetic Control Buttons (P.K.D. & S.K.D.)

• Red Zone: Panic. (Danger Zone) Why do I feel this way? It's like a fire alarm is going off inside. Who pulled this arm?

• Demo 2  First response!  Elements within the story. Where will we focus?

• Practice 2: Following the clues the client gives us.

 

 

 

   3.Week: Let's Learn to Think

 

 

• How does the decision mechanism in our brain work? How are decisions made? The Board of Directors meeting in our brain.  Who elected the members who have the right to decide without my knowledge?

• Therapists' perspectives used in sessions: Blue lenses etc. Red lenses.

• Let's get to know the areas of concern experienced by our clients: I  –  II  -  III

• A common psychologist's disease: Tendency to focus on the negative

• What does “reasoning” mean? Have you ever thought?

• How do we listen to a story?

 

• Key elements in a Trauma Story

  • what happened to me

  • What I can achieve (impulses that can be completed)

  • What I couldn't achieve (unfulfilled impulses) 

 

• Types of interest (attention)

  • Neutral interest: Oh... so that's what happened... So what happened next? (Interest aimed at continuing the story)

  • Completed impulse: Gotcha!..! The interest that captures the element of success and aims to deepen and spread it is called "anchoring style interest"

  • Interest in unfulfilled impulse: I noted it. I've put it in the closet for now, I'm saving it.  Encouraging, supporting, encouraging interest.

 

• Again, questions, comments.

• What does it mean to “take risks” in the session? What happens when I “make a mistake” in the session? What is the experience factor?

•  What does “being a good psychologist” mean? What criteria are used when evaluating a psychologist?

• Demo 3:  I begin to weave a wide web with the antennas of my perception: an attempt to recognize the elements of the story.

• Application: Blue Lens II + Types of attention: What kind of attention can I give to which elements in the story?

 

 

   4.Week  COME ON. (I)

 

• Introduction to addiction.

• Let's think: What is a psychologist interested in when listening to the story? What catches your attention?

  • Text: What elements are in the story? Where should I focus my attention?  What's the difference between a therapy session and a normal conversation? So can't I do therapy for my girlfriend now?

  • Body. What does the body say? Why is he saying anything? Do I have to listen? In which region is my client? Where is he on the Chart of Emotions?

  • The therapist's own body. What's the use? What is resonance? Do I also have my own body?

• Emotion/Timeline

• Thresholds, borders, limits, areas

• What does it mean to plan a session?

• Consciously listening to our clients' stories. REGIONS I  -II  - III

• addiction to negative attention

• Introduction to the concept of Window of Tolerance

• Demo 4 H.A.D.I. I'm just listening to the story, in the subtitle: What is the Autonomic Nervous System telling me?

• Application: awakening and keeping our observation muscles awake during conversation

 

 

 

   5.Week H.A.D.I. (II)

 

• What are the differences between the story from the first region and the story from the second region?

• Stuck incomplete  How internal impulses direct the nervous system

• How does the survival instinct of the autonomic nervous system work?

• In cases of concussion, O.S.S. What does one learn? What precautions does he take for the next possible concussions? COME ON. introduction to the concept. Feelings. Meaning. Behaviour.  Image.

• Being able to read subtitles while listening to the client's story

• Demo 5: If we establish and prepare our observation power, the story begins to shed its own pearls.

• Application: Starting to follow the clues given by the Autonomic Nervous System. Where is my attention? Blue lenses; COME ON.

 

   6.WEEK General Review.

 

 

• Again

  • Review of somatic principles

  • Repetition of somatic maps

  • Review of basic topics

• Why do people get stuck in the swamp of anxiety?

  • Developmental Trauma

  • Shock Trauma

  • long lasting stress

• Clients who are stuck and stuck in the swamp of anxiety. Why do they come to us?

• What do animals do when exposed to stress? What is their difference from us?

• Attachment instinct in mammals

• 3 Layer Brain Motives etc. Emotions etc. Thoughts

  • Reptiles: Survival instinct

  • Mammals: Emotions needed to keep the herd together

  • Monkeys: Thinking, learning from the past, planning, art, relationship building, and our newest function: Hashtag: #loveme #seeme #I'mhere #I'mwithyou

  • Internal Memory vs. External Memory

• Demo 6: Demo of being able to observe during the session, taking into account all the elements we have learned so far.

• Application: Reading the subtitles of the client's story by following all the clues

 

 

7.Learning to Listen Week

 

• What does listening mean?

• My friend  What is the difference between listening and listening to my client?

• What is my listening style?

• What does it mean to be a good listener?  Can I be a good listener too? What's stopping me from being?

• How do we get rid of our bad habits?

  • plan the session agenda in advance

  • dragging the client into rough seas

  • Losing myself in the story

• The importance of being honest in sessions: What kind of psychologist do I want to be?

  • Sincere Psychologist?

  • Fancy Psychologist?

• “Difficult” Sessions: Some sessions are difficult. Is this client very difficult? Or am I out of tune?

What can I do to keep my attention clear and sharp during sessions?

• Demo7: Being outside, being inside, being both outside and inside

 

• Application: Listening exercise: What percentage of our energy is in the sessions, what are we dealing with in our minds while our client is talking? What does it mean to truly listen?

 

 

 

 

   8. Week: Closing, basic principles, concepts, maps

 

• Questions and Answers, Experiences, sharing, practical exercises, how we will continue from now on.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Important topics we will focus on during the course

 

 

 

Somatic Principles

 

• Selectivity in perception: The Autonomic Nervous System nourishes, reinforces and keeps alive the situation it is in.

• The system loaded with electricity tries to discharge it (Red Blue Balance)

• The autonomic nervous system tries to recover. This has two elements (in the following order):

  • 1) Seeks safety / Tries to stay safe (Not better, but at least familiar)

  • 2) Tries to grow and expand, constantly pushing its limits

 

 

 

somatic maps

 

• Ruler and Chart Concepts

• Blue and Red Lenses

• Control Panel -  PKD  /SKD

• In what emotional zone is my client?  I   too? –  II  too? -  III   too?

• COME ON.

 

 

 

Somatic Concepts

 

• What is the Autonomic Nervous System? How does it work?

• What is selectivity in perception? Why do we “choose”

• Tolerance Window

• 3 Layer brain

• Where is the therapist's attention during the session? (3 elements)

• What is Neuroception? (How do the processes work in my brain? How are my thoughts and feelings determined? Is there such a thing as free will? So why do people need to go to therapy? (x2)

• Thresholds (thresholds, limits, levels)

• comfort zone