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The practices in Chapter 8 were about generally creating a landscape in your life that is conducive to cultivating presence. The practices here are also intended for your personal life and relationships, but they focus on strengthening the particular qualities of the process of therapeutic presence: Receiving from the other, attuning with ourselves and extending a response while promoting contact. Cycling through these modes in session requires flexibility of attention and awareness, in response to what is needed at the moment. Focusing on strengthening each mode can help you to access these qualities without a structured practice when you are in session. Let us begin with a practice designed to increase plasticity in shifting attention and shifting awareness. Extending and contact reflects how we offer ourselves with our clients, as we examined in Chapter 6. This includes extending a response informed by our attunement with the client and within ourselves, while maintaining psychological contact with them. Part II of this book explored what occurs in the encounter, and these practices are focused on strengthening the qualities of therapeutic presence so that the process can unfold with greater ease. I want to relate the usefulness of these practices back to the therapeutic encounter, given that the process of therapeutic presence is at the heart of this book. The following vignette offers a glimpse of this process unfolding. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
Published: Mar 27, 2017
Keywords: therapeutic presence; receptivity; inward attuning; extending; contact; exercises
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