Working through the Human Givens Approach Working practically with the Human Givens in Trauma

1. Working through the Human Givens ApproachWorking practically with the Human Givens in Trauma

2. ‘It is more important to know the person who has the disease than it is to know the disease the person has’ Sir William Osler

3. Outline • Revision: Basic emotional needs Pattern-matching (what makes us tick!) The limbic brain (emotional hijacking!!) Practical ways forward • A Structure and Context for Change(RIX2AAR) • Principles of Psychological Influence 1

4. Basic emotional needs • To give & receive attention • The need for intimacy • The need for social connection to the wider world • The need for meaning, purpose and goals • The need for status & emotional connection • The need for creativity & stimulation • The need for a sense of autonomy and control 2

5. Resources • Complex, long-term memory • Ability to empathise & connect with others • Imagination • A conscious, rational mind • To understand the world unconsciously through metaphor and pattern-matching • An ‘observing self’ (the ability to ‘step back’) • A dreaming brain 3

6. ‘A.P.E.T’ • Aactivating agent • Ppattern-matching • Eemotion(al hijack!) • Tthought How does this apply in jealousy? 4

7. I/we have a problem Less change Who/what is causing it? Less emotional energy Blame Less co-operation Problem-Focused Cycles What is the problem? 5

8. Notice the solution happening More change Who/what helped? More emotional energy What did you do? More co-operation Solution-Focused Cycles What do we see as being the answer? 6

9. Practical Ways Forward • Objectivity - person is not the problem • Lower emotional arousal • Language Skills (nominalisations, re-framing, presuppositions) • Evidence Change (+ve vs. -ve, ‘SUDS’) • Rehearsal (imagery, metaphor) • Humour! • Exercise/Nutrition - 7

10. The Rewind Technique • The therapist does not need to know the details of the event (no language is used) • Induce the relaxation response (Lower sense of hyver-arousal/vigilance) • Create environment where the client is in a comfortable place • A screen, or wall is used onto which the client can ‘see’ the event • Client ‘steps away’ from the viewer • Run film backward and forwards from safe place to safe place • Return/rehearse success....using imagination, embedded suggestions and positive vision of future

11. ‘RIX2AAR’ • Rapport building • Information gathering • e‘X’pectations - positive & negative • Accessing resources • Agreeing strategies for change • Rehearsing the strategy - 8

12. ‘Principles of Psychological Influence’ • ‘Utilisation’ principle • ‘Imagination’ is stronger than will • Law of ‘reversed effect’ • Law of ‘concentrated attention’ • Law of ‘scatter’ • Law of ‘one step at a time’ • Law of ‘dominant emotions’ 9

13. ‘Principles of Psychological Influence’ - • Rule of ‘positive expectancy’ • ‘Carrot’ principle • Principle of ‘positive suggestion’ • Principle of ‘positive congratulation’ • (Principle of ‘trance ratification’) • Law of ‘re-framing’ • Principle of ‘embedding suggestions’ 10

14. A different outcome The PAIN can only PUSH us so far before we Allow a new vision to PULL us FORWARD