MEANINGFUL DIALOGUE

Meaningful dialogue is dialogue with meaning!  This encounter is the mutual conversation process of the client, (or healing partner), and therapist that reflects a partnership of equality, respect, and dignity where the focus is on the needs and wants of the client.  This dialogue focuses on where people see themselves standing in their lives at that point in time.  It is not just talk therapy; this therapeutic alliance between equal people with different roles in the healing endeavor explores the client’s concerns by using various healing modalities and Power Prescriptions that facilitate the process.  It all begins and continues through a dialogue of meaning.

Just how much rehashing of childhood happenings is necessary?  Of course, it varies with each individual and with the felt experience of the memories of those events.  However, it can be overdone and deteriorate into a blame game that helps no one.

Just how far can logical reasoning take us?  Of course, it also varies on how useful each person finds it to be.  Although “different strokes for different folks” is useful to respect individual preferences and modes of understanding one’s world, what is also critical is the worldview and theoretical orientation of the therapist as that is the framework for the therapeutic encounter.

As a Health Patterning therapist, my worldview is clearly crucial to my orientation and direction in working with the people who come to me for guidance in making meaningful changes in their lives.  For those who want to know more about my worldview and the underpinnings of my work, refer to the Background section of this site.