2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
I got acquainted with this technique several years ago, taking part in a training seminar on express psychotherapy of professor, psychotherapist V. L. Katkov. This technique is easy to use and is very effective, in my opinion, in working with clients who are in a situation of choice, experiencing various doubts, hesitations in making vital decisions.
Stage 1 … After clarifying and formulating the request, the client is invited to independently determine the models of his behavior, at least three, how one could act in the current situation.
Stage 2. The therapist vertically arranges, / lays out in the space in several rows, one after the other, depending on the number of options chosen by the client, chairs or sheets of A4 paper, leaving a small gap between them.. Each row should have three chairs or sheets paper. It looks something like the picture, only we exclude one extra chair.
Stage 3 … Each row of chairs / sheets of paper, the client calls one of the options for his behavior model.
Stage 4 … Next, the client is encouraged to travel the future. They are taken to the first row of chairs / sheets of paper and asked to voice the version of the behavior model again.
Stage 5. Then they offer to sit on a chair, or stand on a sheet of paper and explain to the client that exactly 1 year has passed since he made a decision regarding a problem situation in which he had doubts. Ask, as carefully as possible, to monitor your bodily, emotional reactions. Ask questions of the following nature: "What / what are you there?", "What is happening in your life?", "What changes have occurred and what are still expected?" etc.
Stage 6. After the answers with the guiding help of the therapist, the client changing to the next chair (stands on a piece of paper) finds himself in a time interval of 3 years after he made an important decision. The therapist, again asking the questions described above, receives detailed answers regarding the feelings, sensations and emotions of the client, paying attention to body language, facial expressions, physiological reactions.
7 stage. The client transplants to the next, last chair in the row (stands on a piece of paper) and finds himself in a situation after his decision, but after 5 years. The algorithm of actions is repeated again.
Further, the procedure is carried out in a similar way with each of the options for solving the problem, in the form of travel to the future in time space.
Upon completion of work with this technique, the client is often already able to independently predict the options for the development of events, clearly determine the adoption of his decision, leaving behind fears, anxieties, hesitations
I will be very glad if the "Knight at the Crossroads" technique will replenish the professional piggy bank and will be useful to my colleagues !!!
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