Download Derby Talks 3rd December 2013

Intelligent Intuition and
Communal Collaboration
Human Trinity Principles:
Supporting therapists from differing
disciplines to work together.
Miriam Granthier &
Jillian Schofield
A good traveller has no fixed plans
and is not intent upon arriving.
A good artist lets his intuition
lead him wherever it wants.
A good scientist has freed himself of concepts
and keeps his mind open to what is.
Tao Te Ching
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Today’s talk
The aim of todays session is to
Identify what part of the ‘elephant’ we see
Identifying ways of seeing, communicating
and working holistically and collaboratively
Introduce the concepts of Human Trinity
Principles (HTP)
The practical application of HTP in Life
Reviews
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The story of the Blind Men and
the Elephant
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Perceptions and Viewpoint
The story of the Blind Men and the Elephant
The blind man who feels a leg says the elephant is like a pillar;
The one who feels the tail says the elephant is like a rope;
The one who feels the trunk says the elephant is like a tree branch;
The one who feels the ear says the elephant is like a hand fan;
The one who feels the belly says the elephant is like a wall;
The one who feels the tusk says the elephant is like a solid pipe.
But what do none of them say
No one sees the whole picture
No one says, “It’s an elephant!”
No one asks the elephant
They don’t ask each other their view
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Group Activity
Can you find the people who best describe your
method of working
Psychotherapy / Counselling
Body workers
Spiritual therapists
* you can stand mid way between groups if you are a member
of two
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Identifying & Defining similarity
and difference
How might you understand and work with a client
with anxiety
How might you understand and work with a client
with who is very uncommunicative
How might you understand and work with a client who
self harming
Link back to the elephant
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Intelligent Intuition:
Communal Collaboration
What can we take from that exercise regarding the way we
understand and communicate about clients, people, ourselves?
When we work within our specialism for a long time we develop a
sixth sense, and intuition. This is not spooky voodoo, this is a fast
thinking method or Rapid Cognitive Processing. We think quickly
within our own knowledge base.
What if the Blind Men started talking? What if each one of us
draws on our own knowledge and our own access to the collective
unconscious? How could it work if we collaborated? Can we
collaborate and why would we? The Human Trinity Principle of
the Three Wells explores this some more.
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HTP concepts
Human Trinity Principles
Unique Make and Model
Viewing Platform
Collaborative Working
Well Well Well
Inner Voice
Life Purpose Regulation Function
Life Review
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Human Trinity Principles
Human Trinity Principles works with the idea that all
humans are made up of a trinity:
Mind
Body
Energy
This three-in-one, trinity, is inseparable and dynamic:
what happens in the mind affects the body and the
energy and vice versa.
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Three within one
But we are not in three parts
We are one, we are whole
The Human Trinity Symbol
The Mind, the Body and Energy are all interlinked into
what we called the Human Trinity Triquetra model.
The three different systems are interlinked and have a
circle further connecting them, this circle represents the
Infinity Field, which incorporates the past, the present
and the future.
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Unique Make and Model
HTP does not believe there is anything wrong with the
patient/client/seeker - the elephant is not wrong for not being a polar
bear.
HTP aims to help the individual explore and come closer to an
understanding of their own unique ‘make and model’. We need to
understand and see the unique individual.
It is client – centered in that the person’s uniqueness and choice is
honoured, yet it goes beyond that by offering views not from the
client perspective in order to stimulate the client to think outside
their own box.
By working with archetype (dreams, goddess, astrology, enneagram
and so on) or finding our ‘type’ (Chinese Medicine, Ayurvedic
Medicine, Myers Briggs or even psychiatric terms) we can choose to
use labels not to DEFINE ourselves but to EXPLORE ourselves.
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Unique Make and Model
To do this we all have to suspend our preferred labels, of
‘tree’ ‘wall’ ‘fan’ and take a look from all angles, listening to
each other and most of all the seeker.
It is easy to see what we are used to seeing through our
trained eyes. It is harder to suspend a structure that has
meaning for us in order to find what has meaning for the
other.
HTP is not a medical model: the seeker is not sick, we are
not here to make them well. It’s about the experience and
the journey, it’s about the pleasure for all involved in doing
an important life changing jigsaw puzzle together.
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The HTP Viewing Platform
In therapy we often encourage our clients to feel what
they are feeling, to connect with it.
This raises the question of who needs the client to do
this, the therapist or the client? What we suggest is
initially to take a step back from the emotion, to stand
a distance away from it, to stand on a platform and
review it from a distance. To stand on a Viewing
Platform.
As HTP has a strong self-empowerment, self-help basis,
this can make therapy assessment or Life Review safer
and more contained.
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The HTP Viewing Platform
Why?
We can examine what is there, what is going on,
what our lives mean, without the emotions
attached (which often gets in the way of really
reviewing something).
To hear Inner Voice
Discourages ‘overwhelm’
Engages responsibility for self
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How does the Viewing Platform
help?
Right of the client to be seen as clearly as possible not
just the way we were taught
More client centered than therapist directed
Encourages listening to themselves, improves the
internal relationship, decreases dependence on
practitioner/s
Engages the client’s mind and observational skills
Broadens perspective by including a ‘bird’s eye view’
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Communal working
The point of HTP is not to know everything, not to see
everything or understand every treatment available, but
to draw on a ‘world wide web’ of different therapies.
(This is the HTP principle of the Infinity Field)
HTP works in a communal way, bringing together
therapists and clients to work together to find and
discover who the client is and how their mind-bodyspirit balance is working and then to apply therapy that
is tailored to each individual.
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Its [research] major significance, it seems to me,
is that a growing body of objectively, verified
knowledge of psychotherapy will bring about the
gradual demise of “schools” of psychotherapy,
including this one [the person-centered ‘school’].
Carl Rogers (2004, p. 268)
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Communal working
We are inclusive of an almost infinite amount of research
and therapeutic method and restricted only by our own
limited capacity for understanding everything.
We don’t aim to use every therapy on every client but by
working with an HTP model we have access to a great deal
of mind, body and energy therapies, which we can use
without bias or prejudice, and which we apply on the basis
of client need and therapist skill and qualification.
The method trusts a lot to the previously mentioned rapid
cognitive process, or intuition, a sense of being connected
with our and each others’ unknowing-knowing through
relaxation, trust and synchronicity.
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To enter into the mystery where learning can
occur, both desire and control must be
relinquished. The desire to be right must give way
to openness and receptivity to that which is.
Grace Unfolding: Psychotherapy in the Spirit of the Tao Te Ching
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Case Example
Lucy left her job with anxiety and depression,
she described that time, as a time where she could
not take on anything new, her head was full
For Lucy it was not a time for psychotherapy or a life
purpose review, but a time for her body and energy.
Through therapeutic discussion with Lucy it was agreed
she might benefit from yoga.
Lucy having a grounding physical and spiritual practice
helped bring about a more peaceful mind. She has a
new job.
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“Psychological work is inseparable from
spiritual development that truly transforms the soul. Pursuing
spiritual work without working on our personality typically
results in a lack of resolution of deep-seated issues and a lack
of true integration of our spirituality, a situation that has
limited and even brought down many spiritual teachers and
traditions. Conversely, most psychological work is too
grounded in believing the realm of the personality is
ultimately real”. (p.38)
The Spiritual Dimension of the Enneagram: Nine
faces of the Soul. Sandra Maitri,
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Well, Well, Well
The Tao is like a well:
used but never used up.
It is like the eternal void:
filled with infinite possibilities.
Tao Te Ching 2
We use language from three different forms of therapy. We call these
the three wells.
Body, Mind, Spirit.
The Human Trinity is made up of these three areas.
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Well, Well, Well.
When we work therapeutically within our discipline,
whether a body worker, psychotherapist or energy
healer, we seem to be tapping into the same source.
HTP does not have a name for this unnamed source.
“That which is called the Tao is no longer the Tao”. Some
people may call this Tao, Source, God, Spirit or
Collective Unconscious.
We think that we are able to tap into this source to
help each other and ourselves. The Three Wells Model
is to help give a visual depiction of how we can tap into
infinite knowledge without getting lost.
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Inner Voice
We believe that people know what is best for
themselves and who they truly are.
However their life may have given them different
messages or they have lost who they are.
So the aim is to stand on the Viewing Platform away
from the emotion and to quiet the mind so they can
hear their own Inner Voice.
The belief is that their Inner Voice enables them to self
regulate.
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Life Purpose Regulation
Function
Initially we observed that people who were ‘forced’ into
life review, by traumatic circumstances, seemed to
space out and be concerned with meaning, feeling
misunderstood and ‘not of this world’.
This wasn’t a negative symptom but a self regulating
function a natural Viewing Platform.
And so the idea of the Viewing Platform was born, as a
way of doing life review without needing trauma.
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Applying this natural function
to therapy
Looking at life direction and life lessons and personal
growth was a perspective that clients naturally were
drawn to and engaged in when in crisis and they felt
helped by this work.
Addressing life purpose and meaning and blockages
seemed helpful with all types of client presentation.
We now observed how clients who were stuck,
obsessive, depressed, fatigued and anxious, couldn’t
hear their Inner Voice.
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A Therapy of Self Acceptance
Listening to their Inner Voice enabled clients to release
blocks, for their energy to flow rather than being stuck by
anxiety or dissipated by depression.
One HTP client presented with anxiety and discovered with HTP she
had always had lots of energy and was pushing it down because she had
been told as a child that she was (her energy was) naughty. By recognising
this, she realised the energy was her natural self and not anxiety at all.
She was able to connect with this quality through archetypal work. Her
astrological archetype said she had ‘boundless energy’. She was able to
consider herself outside of the label she held about this quality (‘naughty’
or ‘anxious’) by viewing herself from a previously unexplored
perspective.
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Life Review
We see the idea for life review as a form of self regulation, a
natural process that can come gently rather than in a way
that turns our life upside down.
Are we stuck with beliefs from other people?
Are we pushing down our natural curiosity because we
were told it was bad or naughty?
A life review is to find your unique make and model.
”It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an
imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection.” The Bhagavad Gita
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Life Review – a practical
application
Birth Gifts
From Then Till
Now
Life Patterns and
Themes
Now
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Birth Gifts
Seven Lenses
Numerology
Birth cards
Astrology
Chinese astrology
Family stories, history, lineage, tales, siblings (including
lost), birth order, parents’ ‘purpose’.
Ancestry, race, cultural, historical events
Body gifts (eg. DNA, hereditary traits, illness, gender, physical
looks, intelligence, athleticism for example.)
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Testimonial
Events in my life over the past few years seem to have been telling me
it’s time for change and to reconnect with my true life path. However
it can be so difficult to see where that path lies, to strip away all the
experiences and conditioning that have led me to where I am today
and get back to what really matters to me.
I found the HTP workshops really helpful in giving me the opportunity
to reassess where I’ve come from, where I am now and where I want to
go from here. The focus on the combination of mind, body and spirit
was really empowering; it was good to look at my situation from many
different angles, all in the safe and supportive atmosphere of the group.
I learned a lot about myself and gained some new perspectives and lots
of inspiration for the future.
Catherine, Ambergate
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From Then to Now
Patterns and Themes
Childhood Dreams and Fantasies
Childhood stories
Including beliefs, introjects,
Timeline
Repeated family patterns
Body story
Spiritual Journey
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NOW
Full Triquetra model
Archetypes
Myers Briggs & Enneagram
Current thought patterns and cycles
Body presentation
Energy assessment (i.e. Chakras)
Inner Voice
Environmental factors
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Testimonials
“I feel I can be ME!”
A.G. Oakwood
“I feel so much stronger, I can see now that part of me that
is Alan Sugar, and enjoy it!”
L.F. Allestree
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Other HTP applications
Courses
Books
Sessions
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Testimonial
What I found really helpful from the sessions was the sharing and
group work discussions. That not only helped see things about me
more clearly but also other people's perceptions and issues and that we
can all share. So much can be found in yoga, it is just how we express
and label it that is really helpful to be able to badge things differently
so this is accessible to as many people as possible.
I love chakra work as I believe it and physically feel it. The astrology
side is relatively new to me but I find it fascinating and, joined with the
elements, works for me as it reminds us we are interconnected and part
of nature. It all helped me to realise that nothing really matters that
much to get myself in a tizzy.
P.W. Yoga Teacher
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Thank you
Any Questions?
We hope you enjoyed the presentation
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
Thanks to those who trialled the materials:
And those who have edited, fed back and read book drafts:
Our mentors, teachers, inspirational guides and helpers.
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Contact
Miriam Granthier
Jillian Schofield
Telephone:
Telephone:
07969 092362
07779 243687
Email:
Email:
[email protected]
[email protected]
Website:
Website:
www.blue-skies.org.uk
www.soulistic-therapy.co.uk
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