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Joe Googbread: The dreambody toolkit
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You may have noticed by now that the techniques I am recommending to you for bringing up your own background processes while you are doing therapy are basically the same kind of techniques which you use with your clients. The problem which you will have using your own sub-threshold awareness as a therapeutic tool is in fact the same problem facing the client in trying to come into contact with those process parts of which he has less awareness thterapeuta an he needs. You must, in short, be constantly doing process work with yourself in order to do it effectively with your client. You will not only be your client’s therapist during the therapeutic hour; you will also be your own therapist.

If this sounds difficult, you’re right; it is. It requires an extraordinary power of concentration to be able to work on two processes simultaneously. And yet, the consequences of not doing this are only too well known. The profession is rife with stories of therapists who cannot stay awake during their hours, or who get physically ill when they work, or who experience 'burnout’ after a few years of doing therapy and must either change professions or take longer and longer vacations.

This is probably the single most distinctive feature of process work. The consistent use of the principles of process-oriented psychology demands that the therapist be as willing to undergo change as he expects his clients to be a or even more so. This means that he must recognize and work with his own edges.  There will usually be three or four important edges which will pose a problem for the therapist. They are:

1 The therapist’s least accessible channel. If the therapist is customarily visual, and he runs into a client with a highly proprioceptive process, the therapist will usually have an edge to that process. If he is not aware of this, he will try to make his client visualize, either by stressing the importance of dream and fantasy material, or by trying to force or cajole him into doing active imagination. His proprioceptive edge will block him from using techniques such as ‘hands on’ body work, meditation in the proprioceptive channel, and yoga, which would all amplify the proprioceptive process directly.

2 Professional edges: relationship to the client.
Many schools of therapy have tried to cut off the very sticky problem of relationship processes between client and therapist by creating large and unwieldy theoretical structures to contain and explain these processes. Almost none permit the therapist to simply enter into the relationship and at the same time retain his therapeutic awareness to work with it as one would work with any other process phenomenon. One reason is that it is dangerous to get involved in relationship material; if you don’t know how to work with it, you might get either yourself or your client or both into serious trouble. On the other hand, if relationship problems are present and are not properly dealt with, it usually marks the end of the therapeutic relationship, either in effect or in fact.

3 Working with unstructured or seemingly chaotic processes.
This turns out to be one of the most difficult edges for the beginning therapist to deal with. I have hinted at the existence of this edge several times throughout this work. In practice, this will mean that you will have to follow the twistings and turnings of the client’s immediate process as it changes from one channel to another, at times even taking your client completely out of contact with you. It will also mean experimentally following reactions of your own which seem at the time to be completely unrelated to your client’s process, and then remaining sensitive to your client’s reactions to your intervention. Crossing this edge will necessitate your becoming exquisitely sensitive to what is happening at the moment and recording as many details of it as possible, no matter how disordered it may seem. Then, when the order of the process becomes manifest, you will be able to use your observations to account for what has been happening in the meantime.

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