Analysis for Change
TIM MILLS - NOVEMBER 2004
The purpose of this seminar is to present three tools from
different origins – adapted for the SACH / therapeutic
environment.
| 1. |
The first is a method for
analysing (and showing graphically) an individual's belief
systems and the implications arising.
" Prisoners
of Belief". (right-click and select
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Origin – Therapy.
Theoretical Base – take your pick but CBT
is a good start! |
| 2. |
The second is a method for
analysing drivers for change, resistance to change and
means for strengthening and weakening them respectively.
"Forcefield
Analysis".
Origin – Corporate / Management.
Theoretical Base – Gerard Egan – The
Skilled Helper |
| 3. |
The third is a method for
analysing (and graphically depicting) the relative strengths
of different factors in our lives – ways of being,
how we spend our time, activity drivers etc.
"The Wheel
of Life".
Origin – Coaching.
Theoretical Base – Adapted from the Buddhist
Wheel of Life |
Particular points to be made are:
| a. |
There are very many tools
to be found in other allied disciplines many of which
are readily adaptable for therapeutic purposes. |
| b. |
All three approaches enable
clients to see themselves from another perspective. |
| c. |
All three are primarily
tools of counselling and require expert use of questioning,
listening and other counselling skills. |
| d. |
All three are capable of
being used as the principal method / approach / intervention
in a single therapy session. |
| e. |
All three are capable of
adaptation for use with or as a foundation for hypnotic
intervention. |
| f. |
All three support the objectives
of goal setting – a discipline often taken for
granted but also often meets with clients' resistance. |
| g. |
Taken together, these tools
provide a cycle from which it is possible to spring into
any of the common psychotherapeutic disciplines and theoretical
bases. |
| h. |
Parallels with past (1),
present (3) and future (2)
are available from the models and to assist in reflective
practice with the client.
|
In addition, the methods 1 – 3 above can be used
sequentially and can be viewed as movement through
the relationships of
1. I – I,
2. I – thou and
3. I – environment.
Any cycle such as this would not be complete without
a return to the starting point to check on the nature
and
extent of changes. Such a check is also likely to raise
new issues – and
so starts the cycle again.
Presentation
Brief explanations and applications for the Core
Beliefs Inventory and The Wheel of Life were presented. The
papers attached refer.
The group to which this was delivered was offered (and
accepted) the opportunity to work through a ForceField
Analysis using SACH as an example.
At each stage in the analysis parallels were drawn with
typical therapy situations inorder to emphasise the flexibility
of this application.
Sources and References:
1. The Paradox Principles; Price Waterhouse Coopers, 1996
2. Co-Active Coaching; Whitworth, Kimsey-House and Sandahl, 1998
3. Iowa Sate University Extension
4. Teaching Your Child to Think; Edward de Bono, 1992
5. The Skilled Helper; Gerard Egan
6. The Farther Reaches of Human Nature; Abraham H. Maslow, 1971
7. Prisoners of Belief; Matthew McKay and Patrick Fanning, 1991
