{"id":9692,"date":"2021-05-05T16:50:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T15:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neurosystemics.org\/?p=9692"},"modified":"2021-05-05T17:02:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T16:02:21","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neurosystemics.org\/tr\/the-client-empowerment-process\/","title":{"rendered":"","raw":""},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false,"raw":""},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false,"raw":""},"author":6,"featured_media":9698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_en_post_content":"<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The purpose of therapy and coaching is to end the need for therapy or coaching. Our clients will come to see us because they need our help. In the initial stages, most of them will be dependent on us to some extent \u2013 they will re-enact their insecure\/avoidant\/ambivalent attachment patterns (see upcoming post for a description of attachment patterns), require some structure outside of their psychic capacity (clinical context), need to orient to a more organized bio-psychosocial system (the therapist) \u2013 and it is our duty to support them in these critical initial stages.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our modeling of attuned humanistic attitudes and therapeutic postures of compassion, equanimity, friendliness and joy will help to reprogram the developmental mis-attunement they will have suffered throughout their life (through complex trauma, low socio-economic conditions, authoritative education, etc). Our clients\u2019 trust in the therapeutic alliance will give us leeway to help shape:<\/span>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">their internal responses to nervous system sympathetic and parasympathetic arousal and thresholds (somatics);<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">their navigation of dark (negative) and lighter (positive) affective experiences (affective development);<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a higher self-esteem through self-acceptance, encouraging creative outlets, orienting them towards life-fulfilling goals and a (self-determined) ethical livelihood (cognition and self-representation), as well as;<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">more securely attached relational patterns and deeper belonging in interpersonal bonds (relationships).<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<b>An empowering trajectory<\/b>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In order to be free from therapy or coaching, our clients will need to build increasingly self-organizing capacities on all the levels described above (somatics, affect, cognition and relationships). As this empowerment process occurs, they graduate through different stages of dependency: dependence, interdependence and independence (see diagram 1).<\/span>\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9693 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/neurosystemics.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/client-empowerment-process.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2436\" height=\"1102\" \/><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Diagram 1. The therapists\u2019 postures <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">as clients integrate the empowering therapeutic experiences<\/span><\/em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This linear therapeutic progression initially follows a top-down structure (client dependence) to a balanced power position (therapist nourishing clients\u2019 existing resources), to a collaborative structure (therapist bringing useful, but replaceable, spaces and inputs) in its final stage of development. As a cyclical process, the therapeutic relationship will have many implicit and explicit collaborative moments in the early dependent stages, and still some areas where the therapist will remain an expert at the \u2018independence\u2019 stage. This linear progression is only a rough schema of a complex, multifaceted and omni-relational process of development.<\/span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the therapeutic process begins, a therapist will use their influence in various ways (i.e. attending, tuning, somatic mirroring, positive reinforcement, vulnerable self-disclosures) to feedback to the client all the external projections towards a multi-faceted empowerment (somatically, affectively, cognitively and relationally \u2013 more on this in a future blog). As the therapy unfolds, and clients integrate these empowering clinical interventions, the balance of power shifts (interdependence stage), and therapists can point more explicitly to the clients\u2019 resources and skills, and further their organismic confidence.<\/span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the neurobiological level, the skillful furthering and development of the client\u2019s intrinsic organismic movements in bio-psycho-affective states gives their organism the signal \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I <\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">can<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> rely upon myself, I <\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">can<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> count and depend on myself,\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> independent of the therapist\u2019s presence or interventions. The building of self-organising capacity is one of the key factors for clients to integrate their experiences in therapy into daily life and sustain deep and meaningful transformations. As Otto Rank said<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, \u00a0\u201cthe purpose of the therapist is to help the person to develop into that which they are\u201d <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Rank, 1936). Achieving this enables independence, ending the need for therapy. HURRAY!<\/span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>May this article be for the benefit of all being.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0You can learn more about the application of these evolutionary and systemic models, their associated neuroscientific empirical research, practice and interventions along with time for practice in our workshops, courses and trainings at <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.neurosystemics.org\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">www.neurosystemics.org<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Together we go further.<\/span><\/i>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<b>References<\/b>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rank, O. (1936). Will therapy. 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