{"id":5326,"date":"2011-07-13T10:25:56","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T14:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccpa.scottbuckingham.ca\/blog\/?p=741"},"modified":"2011-07-13T10:25:56","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T14:25:56","slug":"finding-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\/fr\/finding-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I\u2019m starting to bring up some fairly random ideas in the world of counselling.\u00a0 Not a structured \u201cone week builds on the next\u201d sort of approach.\u00a0 I\u2019ve spent lots of time talking about setting goals in counselling because that\u2019s what we do\u2026 or help our clients do:\u00a0 set goals and discover the path to reach the goals.\u00a0 Is that the process in counselling <a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Untitled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-746\" title=\"Untitled\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Untitled-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>that brings therapeutic progress?\u00a0 Is that all there is?\u00a0 My thought today is about the difference between attending to the content of the session as well as paying attention to the process and I exemplify that difference in terms of art creation (see, I told you it was rather random).\u00a0 In my own creation of art, I find myself focusing my attention back and forth between the finite detail in a drawing and the overall concept\/composition.\u00a0 I teach drawing classes and I see novice artists start a portrait (for example) at drawing the finite detail of the eye.\u00a0 They continue that eye until it becomes the best eye they can accomplish, then they move to the next detail (one content area to the next) without really paying attention to how one detail is related to the next and how that fits into the overall picture (process) only to be disappointed when the drawing is finished and it is all out of proportion and askew.\u00a0 Counselling can be the same\u2026 we focus on all of the details the clients give us and, if we are not careful, we can forget to purposely draw back, observe the process:\u00a0 how the client is relating to the therapist; is their emotional discourse congruent with their body language, etc.\u00a0 One can observe the actual physical dissonance that is created when an individual is providing the details of an event or the content of their story; but their body language is showing that they are wanting to be more closed off, or, perhaps of being too vulnerable in the session.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I guess it is like everyday interactions.\u00a0 We meet someone and our attention is actually focused on the whole; their looks, their openness; the broader picture, and as we \u201cfeel good\u201d about the overall, we start probing for details to express our interest (getting name, occupation, etc).\u00a0 Is the content of those details what\u2019s important in forming that relationship or the process of the interaction that expresses to each individual that they are interested in the other?<\/p>\n<p>Back to my initial thoughts about setting goals;\u00a0 is it the actual goal setting and accomplishment (the content) that produces change or is it the process of obtaining that information that shows that we are interested in their story \u2013 whatever that may be \u2013 and thus simply validates them as a person.\u00a0\u00a0 Is the response to the \u201cmiracle question\u201d in solution focused therapy simply the most efficient path to setting goals or does the formation of solution pictures and the optimistic approach (the process) simply plan the seed of hope and shift a person\u2019s mindset from pessimism to one of hope?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I\u2019m starting to bring up some fairly random ideas in the world of counselling.\u00a0 Not a structured \u201cone week builds on the next\u201d sort of approach.\u00a0 I\u2019ve spent lots of time talking about setting goals in counselling because that\u2019s what we do\u2026 or help our clients do:\u00a0 set goals and discover the path to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001005,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[309,310,311,312],"class_list":["post-5326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-counsellingandpsychotherapyincanada","tag-counselling-content","tag-hope","tag-process","tag-solution-focused-therapy"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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