Transcript Art of Generative Coaching Certification

Generative Psychotherapy:
The art of creating new realities
Stephen Gilligan Ph.D.
Premise 1.
Reality is constructed via filters
1. Filters translate quantum imagination into
classical reality.
2. Three general types of filters: Somatic,
Cognitive, and Field.
3. All we know is what our filters produce:
Our maps are our reality.
4. We can generatively work with our filters.
Premise 2
Filters are held by human consciousness:
“Mindless” or “Mindful”
1. When held mindlessly with neuromuscular
lock--fight, flight, freeze, or fold--problems
develop and repeat themselves.
2. When held mindfully with creative flow,
solutions and new learnings are possible.
The CRASH State
The underlying context of symptoms
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Contracted
Reactive
Analysis Paralysis
Separated
Hurting/Hating/Hitting
CRASH as “neuromuscular lock”
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four F’s of neuromuscular
lock:
◦ Fight
◦ Flight
◦ Freeze
◦ Fold
The COACH State
The Basis for Creative Change
 Centered
 Open
 Aware
 Connected
 Holding
The dual levels of the COACH state
The COACH state has two levels:
 - the performance self (the internal
and external expressions of each
moment)
 --the mindful self that can observe,
sponsor, guide, and intentionally
organize experience in each moment
2. The relational integration of these two
selves gives a generative quality of “selfCoach” or “self-leadership”
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The goals of generative therapy:
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Help a client to shift CRASH states to
COACH states
Help them to use COACH states to
transform negative patterns and create
new realities
6 Steps in Generative Change
1. Open a COACH field
2. Set Intention/Goals
3. Develop a generative state
4. Take action
5. Transform Obstacles
6. Develop Generative Practices
(Optimal States)
Step 1
Open the
COACH Field
Centering with Somatic attunement
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Settle in, settle down
Shift to breathing
Relax muscle tension
Breathe: vertical axis
Relax: drop hips
Sense: Where is center?
Touch, breathe, open center into field.
Centering with positive
memories
1. Somatic attunement (as in Centering 1)
2. Recall positive memory of creative
wholeness
3. Take time to breathe it back into
mindbody
4. Sense and connect to experiential center
Step 2: Goals/Intention
Activate creative
consciousness
towards positive,
meaningful goals
Three ways to represent
intention
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Verbal statement
(positive, succinct, five
words or less, resonant)
Visual image (color,
literal or symbolic)
Somatic model
(posture and movement)
Exercise: Speaking intention
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Client: What I most want to create in my life
is (verbal statement)
--The image that goes with that is _____
--And the somatic model of that is (show
movement)
Coach feedback 3 statements and adds: And I
send you much support for making that real!!
(Partners switch back and forth, 3-4 times)
Step 3:
Develop a Generative State
“Your reality is a
function of your state”
Exercise:Three positive
connections
1. Positive intention/goal
(succinct: 5 words or less;
resonant)
2. Mindbody center
(experiences of well-being)
3. Positive resources (people,
places, things, skills, ancestors,
etc.)
Step 4
Take Action
(Plan, Act, Revise, Act again)
Step 4: Taking Action
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General action:
--Take steps to realize creative vision
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General methods:
--Timelines
--Storyboards
--Daily Diaries
Storyboarding
Storyboarding involves defining the critical
path to your vision in the form of images,
words, and somatic models.
Step 5:
Transform Obstacles
Types of Negative Obstacles
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Negative emotions (anger, fear, etc.)
Internal critical voices (“you’re no good”)
Negative behavior patterns (addictions,
procrastination)
Negative people relationships
Group/institutional barriers
Negative beliefs
Notes on Negative Experiences
1. A negative experience is located in a
somatic center.
2. An experience has two levels: (1) the
unwounded core and (2) the negative
outer form.
3. A negative outer form reflects a negative
human connection with it.
4. To transform its meaning and form,
develop a positive skillful human
relationship with it.
Simple prototype:
Transforming Negative experiences
1. Preparation: COACH field, 3 pos.
connections.
2. Identify goal and interfering “problem”.
3. Locate somatic center and sponsor:
a. Relational resonance: Touch w/ mind/hand
b. Personal pronoun (“he” or “she”)
c. Related age (“Let a number come….”)
d. Four relational mantras (That’s interesting,
I’m sure that makes sense, Something is
healing, Welcome)
a. In positive form, use as resource for goal
Step 6:
Homework and Generative Practices
Homework
Feedback
to Therapist
Negotiated homework
Mindfulness Practices
Characteristics of Mindfulness Field
1. Content-free
2. Non-reactive
3. Non-dual
4. Subtle field
5. Self awareness