Creative Connections & Client Communications Therapeutic Metaphors Revisited Please refresh your reading of “Therapeutic Metaphors” presented (see Archives below) July 30, 2001. Coming up with a metaphor that helps your client understand the consultation discussion theme is very important. A metaphor also allows the substance and significance of the consultation to be remembered easily after…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client Communications How Many Defenses Do You Need? Defense mechanisms –behaviors organized to protect the self from just about anything—are essential, especially in the younger years. These defense mechanisms can range from a child leaving a tense (threatening) moment with a parent to hide out in his/her room, to creating a wall…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client Communications The Magic of “What if?” So many tests in social psychology, trying to pinpoint the key benefits people feel about their therapy experience, clearly reveal that the dimension that makes good work possible, that allows success is empathy. The people feel understood by someone with knowledge and skill; the process together brings…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client Communications Polished CommunicationsThere is no astrology without an astrologer. Cosmic conditions within time require interpretation and application. The astrologer is the agent who brings symbology and reality together within time, for learning and for understanding. A few years ago, I had a client who was President of an Advertising Agency. Everything…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client Communications The Supportiveness of CredibilityIn the Master’s Degree Course Program, I train my students from the very beginning to work with the verb “suggest”. Without giving away too many high-level trade secrets (;-) , I can share with you that this verb keeps the astrologer from describing, from making pronouncements, from painting…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client Communications A Positive Approach to Difficulty An enthusiastic, responsive, cheerful Piscean lady (48) bubbled as she chatted with me before the consultation. Through all the bright self-presentation however, what dominated was the “Neptune Eye Flutter” [see “Notebook” July 15, 1999] –and there was Neptune on her Ascendant! What was going on…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client Communications Saying Something Important Throughout several years now of my Master’s Certification Course [see MENU] the two major difficulties for even the finest developed astrologers have always been acknowledging the insight power of special measurements and in consultation, getting to the point of life development, of saying something important. Special Measurement Power The all-keen measurement…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client Communications Double-Feature Reprieve”The Surprising Question” and “Managing Anxiety” –The Following two essays for “Counseling Insights” appear in the Archives of that Department for July 30 and June29, 2002. As I go over these essays regularly to continue learning, to recall helpful ideas, I keep coming back to these two special presentations.…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client Communications Tell a Story to Convey a Point All teachers use stories, parables, and extended images to make their points. These devices allow vivification of the points being made; they support recall for a long, long time; they help enormously with persuasion. In a delightfully absurd fictional work I wrote some…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client CommunicationsTherapeutic Shifts of Mind Under stress, our clients think differently than their best; we all do! We describe a difficult situation over and over and over again: “This shouldn’t be happening,” we say. We repeat and repeat, “This is crazy; I’m really upset.” –Many people come to an astrologer to find…
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