Traditional Trauma Resolution Facilitation: It is All About You and Not About You.

Go Figure

A person’s individual sessions should be all about them.  It should be all about their values, their judgments, their dreams, their perceptions, their intentions.  It should never be about a facilitator’s values, judgments, dreams and perceptions.  It CAN be about a facilitator’s intentions, providing those intentions are for the person in front of them to heal in the best way to fulfill their dreams.

I teach the practice of “Benign Denial’ – if someone in session insists that the moon is made of cream cheese, I will not challenge it. Challenging will create an adversarial relationship.  I have found that once a person unloads the pain, any genuine misperception sorts itself out.  And as far as the moon being made of cream cheese, who died and made me the authority?

The same neutrality is applied to “auditory hallucinations”.  Just because I can’t hear something doesn’t mean that it isn’t real.  

TTR is the ultimate Person-Centered practice.  I will ever forget the experienced therapist who declared, after taking my workshop:  I thought I was client-centered!  This takes it to a whole new level.

Now how is it ALL about you?  The facilitator who comes to session hollow and empty because of all the work he has done on himself, as well as his ability to focus totally on the person in front of him will provide the strongest, deepest help for those who seek him out.

Traditional Trauma Resolution requires the ability to completely understand another through their point of view. There are other factors that make this practice different, but you will need to check back here for a link to the presentation: What is Traditional Trauma Resolution?