The Philosophy
Change Facilitation - Some Key Points:
I created Change Facilitation because I myself wanted to become an active and conscious participant in life. I wanted to consciously interact and engage with the direction of my own evolution. is an approach that aims to provide you with a clear and containing environment in which deep engagement with your body and psyche is encouraged. At its baseline, it offers talking therapy elements to help you make the subconscious conscious and to help you understand your own everyday worldview, problem roots, issues, wishes, dreams, and experience patterns in general. That said, session types vary and are deliberately not confined to the 'talking therapy' format, as we are dealing with perspectives that involve the body's experience of the world - just as much as 'matters of the heart', the mind, and the soul.
Maybe, to change consciously, means to be prepared to understand, confront, and expand your perspectives. Every human being is different. And that's why I look at my clients' worlds on an individual basis. Jointly, we can explore what perspectives might benefit from more attention and 're-balancing'. For some of us, the 'world of intellect' might, for example, be easier to navigate than the 'world of feelings'. In turn, others might struggle more with thought-based life blocks (e.g. logical decision making challenges), yet thrive intuitively on a felt and sensed level.
Change Facilitation Explained: A Quick Video Guide
Three Stages of Change Facilitation:
I: Understanding Change:
Taking stock of 'what is' ;
developing resilience, and fostering awareness for 'what can be'.
1) Self-Awareness, Stabilisation,
and Development of Discipline
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You develop the tools to reflect and 'unearth' what is that 'holds you back'. You gain an understanding of what it might be that makes the experience of change difficult at times.
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The subconscious edges of your perspectives are becoming clearer. You develop ways through which you can make patterns conscious.
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You get to know the embodied perspective patterns that are no longer helpful and learn to discern and evaluate the impact of these on your everyday life. This is done through creative experiments, body work, talking, the therapeutic relationship itself, or mindfulness-based session formats.
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You develop a compassionate 'inner observer part' that can help you understand your perspectives 'in action' and also brings awareness to your choices and options in any given life challenge that otherwise might trigger reactive, survival-oriented states.
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You develop creative tools for self-regulation and learn more about how your nervous system responds to stressors.
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You use the therapeutic relationship as a reflection space and sounding board and start to actively engage with what type of change you would be interested in.
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You get to know what it is that you might 'need' or 'want'.
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You gain a deepened understanding of your relationship to your body, mind, emotions and, (if relevant) spiritual stances.
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You gain a peripheral understanding of your perspective imbalances, 'blind spots', and 'shadow sides', which then can get processed, integrated, or overcome in stage two.
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You develop discipline and increased levels of self-belief. Most commonly, this will involve some form of meditation or mindfulness-based practice.
2) Perspective Pattern Processing and
'Perspective Agility' Development
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You set 'the compass needle' for what change direction you would like to explore as an experience.
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You can use your 'inner observer' part to reflexively engage with your own reactions, emotional impulses or body-based urges and, through this, experience increased choicefulness and self-control in any given situation.
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You intuitively guide yourself into new experiences and experiment with new life choices, thought-forms, behaviours, and ways of relating to your own feelings and your surroundings at large.
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You establish an intentional practice of 'overcoming' and face fear and pressure points 'head-on', where you deem it important for personal growth.
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You are able to recognise your needs, habitual temptations and reactions, and increasingly give yourself space to respond to life situations consciously and honestly.
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Your tolerance for stressors and triggers is now ever-increasing. You start to transmute perspectives around 'trauma-based triggers' into wisdom.
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You develop and integrate your spiritual values (if present / important to you) into your perspective spectrum and develop contemplative meditation practices to aid spiritual growth.
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You develop an understanding of the lived and enacted patterns of your life and understand how emotions, sensations, and intuitive thought-forms can be powerful guiding forces for change.
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You empower experiences that balance out the 'world of feelings and creativity' with the 'world of analytical thought and logic'.
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You start to explore repetitive-seeming problems, conflict, and situational dilemmas as precious learning opportunities - as your 'growing edges'.​​
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II: Exploring Change:
Overcoming outdated, unhelpful patterns. Experimenting with experiences of 'the unknown'.
3) Perspective Integration & Re-Iteration
III: Enjoying the Harvest:
Celebrating, feeling, and repeating new patterns. Nurturing new, forms of living and being.
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You learn to consciously enjoy, celebrate, and understand your personal moments of 'overcoming', and embrace change itself.
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You feel in touch with your 'heart-space' and feelings have become guiding currents that no longer rule you, hold you hostage, or are to be negated.
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You foster a conscious, relationship with what the world of feelings brings to life and savour moments of love, awe and joy consciously every day.
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You take the time to let new perspective patterns 'settle in' and re-iterate them continuously so that they become embodied automatic habits.
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You 'take stock' and understand what it is that you have learned from this change process and how this impacts your everyday life now.
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You have the capacity to celebrate your change without shame or self-minimisation and savour experiences with increased levels of healthy self esteem.
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Old perspectives, that you might now embody less, have turned into wisdom and still serve you in that way.
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You automatically apply your 'inner observer' part to check your perspectives and actions in a compassionate, intuitive, and self assured way.
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You embrace 'the unknown' and your future as full of opportunities, abundance, and moments of choice-fullness. You see relationships and life itself as fertile ground for balanced growth.
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You can also use this stage as an opportunity to consciously engage in what it means to 'say goodbye', as it might amount to the end of our work together. Endings, tend to hold their own, entrenched perspective patterns and can be a 'healing' experience when explored consciously.
