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IC11 Clinical Demonstration 09 - Helping a Client Explore Their Metaphor for Their Problem to Discover a Solution - Steve Andreas, MA
Original Program Date :
Length: 58:57
Description: This clinical demonstration shows how working inside a client’s own metaphor can reveal solutions that feel organic and self-generated. By carefully exploring imagery, movement, and meaning within the metaphor, the session illustrates how therapists can help clients build stability, access resources, and move out of stuck states without analyzing content or imposing interpretations.
Syllabus Description: Metaphor primarily activates the client’s sub-dominant hemisphere, and this can be utilized without knowing the content of the problem. Asking a client to discover more about their metaphor for a problem is a way to communicate directly with their unconscious understandings, which are often the keys to making useful changes.
Educational Objectives:
- Distinguish between a client’s guiding metaphor and a mere “figure of speech.”
- List the four major criteria for expanding a client’s metaphor in a useful way.
*Sessions may be edited for content and to preserve confidentiality*
Steve Andreas, MA, NLP
Steve Andreas, NLP, is an American psychotherapist and author specializing in Neuro-linguistic programming. With his wife and partner Connirae, they are the co-editors and/or authors of many NLP books (both classics from the early days of the field, and new innovations) and over fifty NLP articles.
