Lvl 2 Mod 9 Flashcards
In addition to the somatic focus, what else does Laia feel is important to include when describing the sensorimotor approach to clients?
Experiential/Experimental
What question does laia ask herself in the moment with clients that helps her expand her toolbox of experiments to use in session?
What are three different experiments I could use to study this?
If the client is hesistant about trying an experiment, what can we do instead of backing away from the experiment?
Use 5 stepping to study the hesitation and go from there, potentially proposing a different experiment
How do experiments help clients when they are getting stuck?
When the client gets stuck, we can use experiments to try to activate deeper states of pain and let the unconscious emerge from the bottom up.
What is the technique of somatic specifying?
Specifying is expressing a sensation using a part of the body other than where it’s being felt. For example, expressing the tension felt in the chest by clenching ones hand
What two things are we looking to deepen into when accessing child states?
Deepen into the most significant element of the child state (What the child is orienting most strongly to), or the most important point in a memory.
The meaning, what that moment “taught” or “told” the child about themselves or the world.
Why say a probe twice?
Because the first time it is so new that the client is still “in shock” from hearing it
As an alternative to physically reaching out as part of a developmental movement experiment, what else can be done?
Reaching with eyes – either the client’s child or the therapist
When do we do the takeover experiment?
When there are two equal and opposing forces in the client
What is the addition we can make to the draw a boundary between you and the world experiment that brings in relational supports?
Ask who might be inside the boundary. And what are they doing to support the person.
What are three parts of a frame proposal?
Invitation to collaborate on studying (“What about we study…”)
The Response (“..the trembling in your core..”)
In response to the Stimulus (“…when you see the car approaching from the left.”)
How does Laia work with touch phobia
Distinguishing types of touch - what is safe vs what is not
What happens when working with a sliver of developmental trauma once the traumatic body response is resolved?
There is very often a developmental theme or emotional wave that comes afterwards
5 ways to check (observationally or verbally) if client is leaving their window of tolerance into hypoarousal
- Glassy eyes
- Are they able to answer mindfulness questions
- Checking out somatic resonance (e.g. am I feeling spacey?)
- Sense of retraction of the energetic field
- Ask them: How much are you present here with me?
Is despair a trauma emotion?
Yeah, especially with early trauma
