Working in the Here & Now

1. Working in the Here & Now • 2Tiers • Experiencing: Ahistoric, The immediate events in the meeting take precedence over events both in the current outside life & in the distant past of the members, emergance of the social microcosm • Counselors Task: Steer group into the here & now; group norms

2. Activating the Here and Now • Norms • Interpersonal Confrontation • Emotional Expresivity • Self-Monitoring • Group as Source of Information • Reinforce Here & Now

3. Working in the Here & Now • 2 Tiers • Illumination of the Process: A Self-Reflective Loop, examines the here-&- now behavior that has just occurred • Counselors Task: Process Commentary • Observer-Participant • Group Historian • Ask others to do things, but not expected to work

4. Process vs. Content • Process: Nature of the relationship between interacting individuals • “How” & “Why”: Illuminate aspects of the person’s relationship to other people • Content:The explicit words spoken, the substantive issues, the arguments advanced • “What”

5. Insight Levels • Behavior Awareness: What • Patterns of Behavior: What-Who-When • Interpersonal Process • Motivation: Why • Genetic: How

6. Social Taboo’s to Process Commentary in Social Discourse • Socialization Anxiety: Critical & Control • Social Norms: Permits Social Order • Fear of Retaliation: Close monitor=Danger • Power Maintenance: Authority Structure

7. Process Commentary Overview • Here is what your behavior is • Here is how your behavior makes others feel • Here is how your behavior influences the opinions of others • Here is how your behavior influences your opinion of yourself

8. Process Commentary Overview • Are you satisfied with the world you created? • If no, exercise your will to change:transform intention to action

9. Guide Client to Accept • Only I can change the world I have created for myself; Responsibility-won’t not can’t • There is no danger in change;As if nature in group-no catastrophe • To attain what I want, I must change • Primary Task vs. Secondary Gratification • I can change, I am potent

10. Therapeutic Factors • Initial Phase • Hope • Universality • Altruism • Imitative Behavior • Imparting Information

11. Therapeutic Factors • Middle Phase • Cohesion • Catharsis • Interpersonal Learning

12. Therapeutic Factors • Final Phase • Cohesion • Existential