#14. Seasons Intelligence (Therapy Tip of the Week)

Seasons Intelligence (Therapy Tip of The Week #2)

Understanding the current season you are in helps you figure out where you are at, in order to know where you need to go. Appreciating the seasonality of your inner and outer life provides you a navigational guide as to where you need to nurture your nature.

#14. Therapy Tip of the Week: Seasons Intelligence

Understanding the current season you are in helps you figure out where you are at, in order to know where you need to go. Appreciating the seasonality of your inner and outer life provides you a navigational guide as to where you need to nurture your nature.

A client said that this idea of thinking in Seasons changed the experience of her struggles.

She just came back from being away for several months due to her work. She was finding it hard to adjust back to life. In the previous session, I asked her to take a zoomed out view and see what season of her life she was in currently. She struggled this and drew a blank.

Given what we were discussing, I suggested for her to consider that this might be a period of Bridge-Cossing. And if she agreed with this perspective, it meant that this bridge-crossing chapter is transitory, and that she might need to give herself some time to re-adapt.

Instead of pushing herself crazy, I later learned that this subtle shift of framing allowed her to listen to her needs at this phase of re-adaptation, and freed her to be more psychologically flexible as she took the time to find her feet on the ground again.

A Reason to Think in Seasons

Understanding the current season you are in helps you figure out where you are at, in order to know where you need to go. Appreciating the seasonality of your inner and outer life provides you a navigational guide as to where you need to nurture your nature. In this video, I provide a way to open a conversational doorway about this with your client, so as to provide focus and directionality of the therapeutic endeavour.

⏳ Time Stamps:
1. Intro (00:00)
2. What to ask your clients (00:59)
3. The Season Points to the Needs (02:07)
4. Cilnical Example (02:32)
Note: Any personally identifiable information in clinical examples used are changed, in order to protect their confidentiality and privacy.

📕 Resources:
1. The Fourth Turning by William Strauss and Neil Howe
2. Wintering by Catherine May

📜 Becoming a Deep Learner:
If you value lifelong learning and want to leverage this into your clinicial effectiveness as a mental health professional, check out The Deep Learner course. https://darylchowcourses.teachable.com/p/deeplearner/ 

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