{"id":2291,"date":"2019-03-15T10:26:31","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T02:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darylchow.com\/frontiers\/?p=2291"},"modified":"2019-04-11T15:39:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T07:39:20","slug":"think-like-an-oak-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/frontiers\/think-like-an-oak-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Think Like an Oak Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2292 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/darylchow.com\/frontiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Think-Like-an-Oak-Tree-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/frontiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Think-Like-an-Oak-Tree-2.png 560w, https:\/\/darylchow.com\/frontiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Think-Like-an-Oak-Tree-2-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">In an attempt to design safer and more resilient structures, architects and engineers are starting to think like a tree.[1]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">When hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, only 4 out of 700 trees died from the disaster. Why is that?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">Beyond the sturdy spiraled trunk and branches, coupled with leaves apparently folding into a Fibonacci sequence, the main reason these trees survived the hurricane\u2014and not the buildings\u2014is hidden from plain sight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6eNEHUMNJQ0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">(Click<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"> <a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/6eNEHUMNJQ0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> <\/span>if the&nbsp;video&nbsp;above is not visible)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">Our work is a lonely endeavor. Even though psychotherapy is an ongoing ebb and flow of emotionally charged interaction between therapist and client[2], most practitioners\u2014especially private practitioners\u2014feel the absence of real connection with others who are doing the deep work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">What if we learn to entwine our roots with the roots of others? What if the practice of psychotherapy becomes less of an individual sport and more of a team sport?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">How would our enterprise look like if we learn to think an oak tree?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">Notes:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 10pt;\">[1] Janine Benynus&#8217;s (1997) book, Biomimicry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 10pt;\">[2] Jerome &amp; Julia Frank&#8217;s (1993) book, Persuasion and Healing<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an attempt to design safer and more resilient structures, architects and engineers are starting to think like a tree.[1] When hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, only 4 out of 700 trees&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[7,123,59],"class_list":["post-2291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-learning","tag-clinical-practice","tag-team","tag-work"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Think Like an Oak Tree - Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What if we learn to entwine our roots with the roots of others? 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