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One’s Creativity / imagination in the process of decision making and problem solving

mag. Peter Gabor

Self solving problems and / or dynamic self evaluation

The main problem of clients and counsellors is often not being able to solve the problem or to become aware of something (psychic content) that keeps the client in status quo

Techniques / methods for triggering self solving problems and self evaluation:

- so called “soft techniques”:

- self projection techniques or / and

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Metaphors /metaphoric techniques

Our way of conceptualising is probably fundamentaly metaphorical

- Metaphoric description of career / life / current situation

- metaphoric definition of the problem:

- Capturing the esence of the

situation

- visualisation of the problem

- metaphorical imagination

- becoming more aware of it

- metoforic techniques:

- drawing

- verbal metaphor

- narrative


“The egg of being”

From psychosintesis (shamanism)

Consciounscnes: ordinary life, middle world / now / the world of material space and physicality / Freuds’s ego? / active consciousnes

Subconsciousnes: lower world / past / the world of unconscious dynemics, potential and empowerement / Freud’s id?

Super consciousnes / higher self: upper world / future / the world of solutions, inspiration, creativity, love, big beauty / much wider conotation than Freud’s superego?

Time division is rough division throughout our linear understanding of time and space …

Shamanistic psychotherapy; Gagan, J.M. (1998). Journeying; Where Shamanism and Psychology Meet. Santa Fe, Rio Chama Publications

Operation of the unconscious

The problem can be solved also on the semi conscious level; creative or imaginative proces serves as a strong drive

Released creative energy usually serves as a useful source for solving “counselling problems”:

– directly or

- indirectly (“programming one

self”)


Three generations of comunication

Fletcher Peacock; Water the flowers not the weeds

First generation of c.:

- To solve the problem it is absolutelly necessary to understand the

genesis of / the reasons for it:

- Sigmund Freud

- past

- longlasting

Second generation of c.:

- Problems are in the presnet time being maintained through wrong / harmful / vicious / circles or ways of comunication (with one self and others):

- an expert should get to understand that rotating in the

circle and intervene to breake / cut it

- present

- an example: comunication between housband and wife

Third generation of c.:- Solution focused communication: -To go directly into the future, - to go into the world of solutions, of resources - Milton Erikson

Active Engagement; the being and doing of career counselling

dr. Norman E. Amundson, prof. of counselling psychology and vocational counsellor

“Walking the problem”

- place yourself on the opposite side of the room;

in the future, where your problem is already

resolved

- while standing there imagine that your problem

is resolved, feel that your problem is resolved

- now slowly walk back into the present

- which steps did you have to make in order to

resolve the problem


“Drawing of one’s mountin of career”

- draw the mountin

- draw different posts / features on the

mountain

- on the drawing of the mountain mark the

position where are you located right

now in the sense of looking for a job /

changing the job / career development

- draw also yourself


“Drawing the problem” / metaphoric resolution of the problem

- draw the problem

- draw the solution of the problem


“Up, up and away”; A Career / Life Self Assesment Exercise

- draw yourself

- in your hand draw the baloons of:

- Knowing Why

- Knowing How

- Knowing Whom

- Vision – Sight and Insight

- Flexibility

- Health


“Writing the book of one’s life”

- firs page; the title

- second and third page; chapters of

one’s life

- last page; future chapters

- as creative as possible (songs,

citations, drawings etc.)


Verbal metaphors


Narrative

- we are narative beings

- one’s / clients’s narrative

telling (also) to him / her self

- other’s narrative (also counsellor’s)

motivational / emotional / learning /

transfer of experiences, knowledge

etc. moments


“The theatre experience”

- big theatre

working in a group, coordination, hard work, empathy,

character developmnet, glamor, energy

- film

working in a group, limited contact with the audiance,

spectacular, retakes, controle, legacy, following the

instructions, material reward

- street theatre

trust, control, marketing, managing, freedom, creativity,

independance, fleksibility

- improvisational theatre

Cooperation, inspiration, supportive, flexible, quick thinking,

multitalented, creativity, imagination, being in the now, good sense

of humor


Constructivism

- We all create our reality / our world

- The power of thoughts, words, anticipations

- Self fulfiling prophecy

- The story of IQ

- Jung’s synhronicity

- We (co)create also the reality of other people

(intersubjectivity of motivation etc.)

- We cocreate the social - cultural world we all

live in

The theory of zero point field / quantum vaccum


The purpose of one’s life

A. Maslow + V. Frankl;

- The purpose of one’s life is above (even)

selfactualization

- 16 % earning a lot of money / the rest

finding / living life’s purpuse

- (self) adressing clients from “above”


Drawing of one’s life purpose

- Draw your life’s purpose

- What did you experience during the process?

- feeling / feelings / emotins?

- experiences?

- realization?

- work?

- longing?

- Put your life’s purpose in a short sentence.


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