7 narrative ta - bernd schmid (oxford lectures)

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Narrative TA:

Intuition, background images,dreams, guided imagery, metaphors, storytelling

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Intuition




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Intuition and TA

• The Origins of TA : Intuition and ego-states (Berne’s papers 1949-1962 Paul McCormic ed.)

• TA concepts as crystallizations of Bernes (and others) intuitions

• focussed on psychotherapy motivations, biography, limiting life plans, enacting drama (early definition BERNE script = transference drama)



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Definition of intuition

• Berne, Eric 1949 (based on Aristotle)“the way we know something without knowing how we know and often without knowing in words what we know”, but we act as if we knew.


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Evolutionary function of intuition

Imagine an ancient human, drinking at a spring, is confronted with a wolf: Is it hungry, strong, aggressive etc? Am I strong, energetic? How far the next tree, easy to be climbed quickly? Would running or freezing attract the wolf? Etc.

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Evolution of intuition

Is Intuition per se selfish? No! Modern science: „Evolution is

cooperation!“ But person has to be free to use

Intuition for others. (No taboos or undetected disires!)

Is it possible to only refer to others? No!It is ok to tell and live your own story, but in a way also usefull to others




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Broader perspectives

• Intuition is judgement about reality (Schmid1991).

• Intuition can be qualified or unqualified, can lead or mislead.

• Professional intuition must be trained and must become focused according to what sphere is relevant and for what professional purposes it is needed.

• Different professionals should have different masteries in intuition, because they have different spheres of reality to deal with, different roles and different responsibilities.




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Intuition of the Possible

• BERNE's intuitions meant perceptions of represented archaic realities.

• JUNG's intuition meant also the anticipation of possible realities: What could be real instead of what is real already?= perception of the potential.

• “Realize” means: perceive the possibility and help to make it real.




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Typology of C.G.Jung

Intuition of the

possible

thinking

experiencing

valuing





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Berne’s Limitations to intuition

1. Taboos = not allowed to deal with certain aspects of reality

2. Desires and fears = seduced or blocked or driven by hidden motivations, we do not dare face or admit.




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More limitations ( B. Schmid )

3. Fixations in habits (cultural, professional and organizational),

4. lack of competence and knowledge,5. blocking experimental flow, (initially not

knowing which models and approaches to use),

6. lack of tuning into each others spirit, 7. lack of inspiring ideas and creative designs

for future realities.




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Intuition Science

Berne: Scientific methods, which offer more security, and intuition,

which opens up more options, are the

mutual basis for creative action.





background images




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Dialog-model of communication



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• nature of the individual• talents and ambitions,• equipments and requests from family,• attitutes to life and lifestyles of the

milieu, in which one was brought up

• formative experiences, often represented by key events and inner

images

Lifeplans are influenced by



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Not primarily scripts, but creative lifeplans

e.g. Fanita English lifeplan development:

compare stories 1. childhood2. adolescence3. presence

Fanita: „Berne would have developed into the Jungian direction.“

Lifeplans and stories




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Human are narrative beeings.Life is myths, is telling your storyPeople always are oriented to what they want to become.telling you somehow, who they want to be or are going to becomeEmpathy for the possible: intuition for the possible future of the other

Life is meaning




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"When you were young, what have been your images what you will do some day professionally?"

Train conductor!"What images/scenes are related with this occupation in your mind?" 1. "Me and my engine - nobody knows it as I do!"2. "My colleague and I - two comrades travel around the world!"3. "So many people, who trust me - I shall guarantee for a safe trip!"4. "Oriental Express - Many foreign countries. Great Uniform! I personally welcome all VIPs.”

Orientation in life illustrated by inner images: e.g. Train conductor




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People „adopt“/filter images from their life or from stories, which represent experiences, self-perception or tendencies of the soul.

By exploring those images and mirroring in dialogs with others we get a sense of the personality, the myths and lifestyles, the soul is interested in and ingrediences of life situations, which fit.

Meaningful background images




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1. For understanding and creating meaningful professional situations and ones professional career.

2. Understanding ones perception of organizational developments and matching those with ones own evelopment

3. Monitoring matching and dialogs on that.

Meaningful background images for profession and organization




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1. Me past/ me present/ me future2. Org. past/Org present/Org future

Exercise images referring to matching individual and organization

me

organization




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1. Humans are meaning oriented and mythical!

2. Touch the essence of people without intimate informations!

3. Reveals background drifts in processes and relationships.

4. Very effective in connecting on many levels.

5. Allows to relate to these spheres in a professional world.

Why working with background

images?


Dreams, guided imagery, metaphors and

storytelling


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Circus


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• exempt from the laws of the real world,

• are surreal in character, • open up a multi-layered field of meaning and structure,

• professionals realize, that they can create stories and metaphors much better and more useful, than expected.

• This means using traditional ways of teaching,

• indirect suggestions activate creative searches and solutions.

Dreams, metaphors and storytelling




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the way, the dreamer deals with metaphorical occurrencesas an example for the way he deals with experiences and dialogs in other contexts.

dialog using dreams, imagery and stories as examples for creative dialog and for building up a “permeable” creative, sensible communication-culture

Dealing with dreaming, guided imagery

or storytelling as example for dealing with creative realities




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not dream interpretation in the first place,but dealing with dream experiences and contexts and creative dialogs.

I.e. exploration and visualization of1. what is going on in the dream and2. what is going on round about the dream, as well as3. the meanings the dreamer gives his dream and4. with resonances in encounters with others.

Creative dialogs around dreaming




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• accepted mixture of the dreamer's world of experience and the dialog partners' worlds of association,

• creative experimentation with dream orchestration and also alternative orchestrations,• unbiased dialog as offers of possible meanings

without resorting to any kind of expert authority,• experimenting with context references =

possible connections between elements of the dream and other life stages.

Narrative experimental dialogue




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