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“This was the unexpected ... unforeseeable resolution of the paradox ... her personal goodness was no longer the issue because it had been replaced by the sweetness of relationship.”

SpiritualityHopeTrustMental HealthPresenceHealing TraumaDeep ListeningPerson CenteredPerson CentredTherapy Case Study
Book:The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
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“These two viewpoints offer us different ways of orienting to the world that lead to strikingly different values, ways of relating, and behaviors ... The essence of the right-hemisphere perspective involves attending to relationship, embodiment, and what is unfolding in the unique moment in the space between. We could say that from this viewpoint, the central metaphor here is living beings in relationship with each other in this moment. In contrast, the left-hemisphere viewpoint steps out of the relational moment to focus on division, fixity, disembodiment, and the creation of algorithms (standardized step-by-step solutions to problems that do not take individuality and context into account). The central metaphor here is the machine, with our bodies, our brains and our very selves viewed as mechanisms to be analyzed and shaped. We might immediately sense that the perspective of each hemisphere has substantial consequences for how we are able to be present with one another.”

HealingRelationshipPerson CenteredPerson CentredSafe PresenceLeft And Right HemisphereQuality Of AttentionQuality Of Mindfulness
Author:Bonnie Badenoch
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“Movement away from defensive destructiveness and towards greater social responsibility is a characteristic of this [actualising] tendency. The political implication of this position is that we do not need to be controlled by authority. We, individually and collectively, not only have the right to self-determination and group determination but, given the necessary conditions, can be trusted to use our power responsibly.”

PoliticsPowerSocial ResponsibilityAutonomyPersonal ResponsibilityPerson CentredCarl RogersActualising Tendency
Book:Person-Centred Practice: The BAPCA Reader
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“The path of waiting and listening forgoes certainty and exposes us to a sense of tentative unknowing, which is often uncomfortable at best. This may only be tolerable when we have developed some degree of trust in the inherent healing capacity built into the human system and the power of interpersonal receptivity to animate the process. For most of us, this trust arrives because we have experienced it ourselves and can now embody it for others. As this deep learning proceeds in us, we may be able to rest more easily into the waiting because the unknowing is increasingly being held within our expanding window of tolerance. As we are able to work in this way, I believe our people get a felt sense of our profound and enduring respect for their inherent wisdom, something that is likely a unique and healing experience given their history of traumatic relationships. I don't believe I have found any offering that is more empowering than respect.”

CoregulationPerson CentredSafe PresenceEmbodied SafetyInherent Mental HealthCoregulation For TherapistsInherent Healing Capacity
Book:The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
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“On reflection now, it seems to me she was already telling me what she needed most--a place to settle in proximity, safety, warmth and quiet because she had none of that as a child.”

Person CenteredWitnessingNonverbal CommunicationPerson CentredSomatic HealingAttachment HealingNonverbal TherapyEmbodied Wisdom
Book:The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
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