{"id":3714,"date":"2020-06-30T15:42:39","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T07:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darylchow.com\/frontiers\/?p=3714"},"modified":"2020-06-30T15:42:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T07:42:41","slug":"directionanddepth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/frontiers\/directionanddepth\/","title":{"rendered":"A Deep Learner Needs Direction and Depth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

School tells you what to learn. In real life, you have to figure out WHAT TO LEARN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In psychotherapy land, we are inundated with so many types of \u201cwhats and hows\u201d, in the forms of trainings, workshops, articles, clinical studies. Much of the default approach taken is that it assumes that everyone needs to learn the same thing<\/strong>\u2014because it is so-called \u201cevidenced based practice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The End of Average… and the Beginning of Direction and Depth<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This is in part due to a conflation between the nomothetic<\/strong> and idiographic<\/strong> levels of understanding. The nomothetic approach sees things \u201con average\u201d, whereas the idiographic sees things from an \u201cindividual\u201d level. For more on this, I highly recommend Todd Rose excellent and highly engaging book, The End of Average<\/strong>. I had to read it 3 times to fully absorb it\u2019s implication of how we see the world.

When we survey participants in workshops, majority of therapists, even when they are receiving clinical supervision do not have a sense of direction of where they should go, what they should do to invest in their professional development efforts.

And if you take a look at the clinical supervision literature, it\u2019s no surprise that supervision effects accounts for about 0-1% of client outcomes. This study finding has also recently been replicated by Jason Whipple and colleagues.\u00a0[1]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bottomline for us Deep Learners is this: We need to first figure out what<\/em> to work before obsessing about the how<\/em><\/strong>, which the therapy marketplace predominantly likes to trade in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

We need to stretch out of our comfort zones, and into our learning zone<\/strong>, without tipping out into our panic zone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For more about circle of development (COD), read this<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here’s a sneak preview from our specially designed web-based workshop, Deep Learner. Here is Module 2 on the<\/strong> Problem of Lacking Direction and Depth.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Later in Module 2.2, we talked about leveraging your professional development efforts using the 80\/20 rule. In Module 2.3, we talk about about the importance of both direction and randomness. And finally, we cover FOUR how-to TIPS relating to direction and depth:<\/p>\n\n\n\n