EP21 Workshop 14 - The Meta Mirror Technique for Dealing with Challenging Relationships - Robert Dilts, BA

Carl Jung pointed out that "Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves." Dealing effectively with challenging relationships and interactions requires the ability to perceive and integrate a number of different perspectives, or "Perceptual Positions." The Meta Mirror Format acknowledge the fact that, typically, clients have the most difficulty communicating with others who mirror back to them what they have difficulty relating to in themselves. This workshop will show that when clients can be helped to shift perspectives and see how the problem they are experiencing with respect to the other person is really a reflection of their relation with themselves, it can bring both significant insight and new possibilities.

Learning Objectives

1. Describe the four fundamental "Perceptual Positions."
2. Explain the process of projecting our own "shadows" onto others.
3. Show how to use spatial sorting to crate new perspectives and bring new insight and options into challenging relationships.