2. Assumptions
-Tend toward positive growth - actualize one’s potential, pain symbolizes the
need for growth
-All people have what it takes to achieve positive growth
-Everything is connected - Gregory Bateson; reciprocity; growth is the result of
relationships and interactions
-Client as the expert - each person responsible for themselves; all relationships
are equal
12. Status Quo
• A family with one acting out member
• How do family members maintain the status
quo?
13. Intro of Foreign Elements
• Tragedy, crisis, off-balance system
• You disrupt the status-quo
14. Chaos
• Things feel uncomfortable - change is initiated -
what do we do?
• Therapist over functions; normalizes feelings;
examines FOO, family rules (games)
15. New Possibilities
• Interprets change in a way that makes sense to
the family/couple/individual
• Dormant resources (hidden empathies - mom
plays the role of “observer”) What change is
possible?
16. Practice
• Can each person grow? Are symptoms
improving?
• Unexpected
• Implementing new changes and practicing
those changes; enactments; how has awareness
changed?
17. New Status Quo
• No symptomatic member - all have the same
capacity to grow and thrive.
19. Worth and Esteem
• Esteem can be artificially high
• Self-Compassion: acceptance of limitations and
value
• esteem: perception of qualities/characteristics
• worth: perception of inherent value
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21. Ingredients of an Interaction
• Facts
• Meanings
• Feelings
• Feelings of feelings
• Defenses
• FOO Rules or Beliefs/Myths
• Reactions/Responses
