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Transformational Chairwork:
Core Principles
Scott Kellogg, PhDNorthern Tide
By Tim Wallace
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Four Orienting Principles
1. Multiplicity of self – it is clinically useful to understand people as
containing different parts, modes, voices, or selves.
Four Orienting Principles
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1. Multiplicity of self – it is clinically useful to understand people as
containing different parts, modes, voices, or selves.
2. It is healing and transformative for people to give voice to these
different parts.
Four Orienting Principles
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1. Multiplicity of self – it is clinically useful to understand people as
containing different parts, modes, voices, or selves.
2. It is healing and transformative for people to give voice to these
different parts.
3. It is also healing and transformative for people to enact or re-enact
scenes from the past, the present, or the future
Four Orienting Principles
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1. Multiplicity of self – it is clinically useful to understand people as
containing different parts, modes, voices, or selves.
2. It is healing and transformative for people to give voice to these
different parts.
3. It is also healing and transformative for people to enact or re-enact
scenes from the past, the present, or the future
4. The ultimate goal of Chairwork is the strengthening of the Ego, the
Healthy Adult Mode, or the Inner Leader.
Four Orienting Principles
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History and Background
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Jacob Moreno, MD
Created the
Chairwork Technique
www.blatner.com/adam/pdirec/hist/stages.htm8
Frederick “Fritz” Perls, MDDeveloped Chairwork into a
Psychotherapeutic Art Form
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Taken by Stanislav Grof, MD, PhD
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The Four Dialogues
Giving Voice Story Telling
Internal Dialogues
Relationships & Encounters
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Giving Voice
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“I would like to invite
you to move to this
chair and I would like
you to speak from your
heart and speak from
your pain.”
Giving Voice
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● This approach might be considered
when patients say such things as:
● “There is a deep grief within me.”
● “There is a part of me that wants
to cut myself as soon as I
leave the session.”
Gestalt Therapy and Voice Dialogue
“I would like to invite
you to move to this
chair and I would like
you to speak from your
heart and speak from
your pain.”
Giving Voice
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“That was the day, the first time ever in my life, that I made a
commitment to being alive.
Not the first time I said I wanted to live, or dreamed about
living; it was the first time I made a commitment, that I gave
myself my word.”
- Meri Dana-Ama Danqhah
Willow Weep For Me
Existential IntentionalityGiving Voice
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Storytelling
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“At the heart of any therapeutic encounter there is always a story.”
Roberts & Holmes, 1999
Tellingthe story
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“I sense that holding this secret
inside for so long has been a
terrible burden. If you’re willing,
I’d like you to move to this chair
and tell me the story of what
happened.”
Telling the story
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● This approach might be considered when the patient
says things like:
● “There are stories within me that have never been
shared.”
● “I told a few people about the accident when it
occurred, but I do not feel I ever really talked it
through.”
Telling the story
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Internal Dialogues
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“You seem to be of two minds
about the project. I wonder if
you would be willing to go to
this chair and speak from the
part that wants to go forward
with it and then to this chair
and speak from the part that is
having second thoughts.”
Internal Dialogues
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This approach can be considered when patients say
things like:
● “I am in conflict about this situation.”
Internal Dialogues
● “I have a deep fear of elevators. I am afraid
that I will be trapped in one and die there.
● “I have this voice in my head that
keeps telling me how bad I am.”
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The work with the Parts,
Modes, or Selves will
usually take one of three forms:
● The Parts co-exist
● The Parts engage with each other
● One Part witnesses the others
Internal Dialogues
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Relationships & Encounters
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● This approach can be considered when patients say
things like:
● “I know that it has been three years, but I am still
grieving the death of my mother.”
● “My father was very cruel to all of us when I was
growing up. I am still very angry about that.”
● “My sister is just impossible. I feel responsible for
her but she’s driving me crazy.”
Relationships &
Encounters
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EXPRESSING EMOTIONRelationships
& Encounters
LOVE
SORROW / GRIEF
FEAR
ANGER
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The Heart of the Impasse
● Excessive Reliance on Coping Modes
● Countertransference
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Courtesy of
David Edwards, PhD
The Suffering Chair
Multiplicity of Self
Dancing of the
Selves
By Brenda Clews
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Deepening Techniques
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Dialog
©Arif Nammari
A Central Goal is for the Patient to Be Able
to Express each Voice as Distinctly, Forcefully,
and Simply as Possible!
http://fernando-hideaway.blogspot.com/2008/02/jacob-levy-moreno.html
Jacob Moreno, MD Frederick “Fritz” Perls, MD Zerka Moreno
Scott Kellogg, PhD
transformationalchairwork.com
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Amanda Garcia Torres, LMHC
chairworktherapynyc.com
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Trainings, Webinars and Professional Consultations
Diana Calvario
Scott Kellogg, PhDAmanda Garcia Torres, LMHCt
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