| Conscious and unconscious involvement in change
Over on the 'What is creativity?' thread, Kevin Matthews posted this:
What are the effects (if any) of a client being consciously involved in the process of
change?
and
What are the effects (if any) of a client not being consciously involved in the process of
change?
In my frame of reference the first question relates to facilitation and the second
question relates to hypnosis using my current point of view. If anyone has a cleaner way
of putting it I would appreciate the input. I am hoping that my questions will deliver a
change in perspective and this will open up opportunities for working in a different way.
I thought it would be good to start a new thread devoted to that question, and save the creativity one for more posts devoted to that topic.
This was Bridget McKenna's response to the question:
Bear in mind you're reading the opinion of one of the more undertrained individuals on the forum. Where are the Masters when you need 'em?
I favor a mixture of conscious/unconscious involvement. I'm going to be giving the conscious mind some information to work with, not all of which is distraction to get the dominant hemisphere off playing with jacks in a corner. I think it can be helpful to know some of the reasoning behind what's going on. I usually (but not always, depending on the perceived urgency of getting directly under the hood) explain a few things, the better to make it all familiar and non-threatening to the conscious mind. What and how much varies. Every time's different, 'cause I'm going on what I'm getting.
But if I weren't also doing everything I know to speak directly to the unconscious, I feel like I might as well send them home and ask them to read a book about it. The way I learned as much as I do know about NLP was as a combination of conscious and unconscious involvement. It worked to zap a lot of great stuff into my skull, and I like the approach for working with others.
Hope that answers your questions as far as this one junior practitioner is concerned.
Now, over to you...
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