Skills of Orienting in Time and Space
How to know where you are
How to recognize where you are placing your attention and have choice around that
Skills of Receptivity
How to create and maintain receptivity
The ability to request rather than demand
Learning to ask Permission
Skills of Felt Sense
Recognition of Sensation and ability to track and sequence sensation
Full body knowing
Recognition of states of Embodiment and states of Disassociation
Skills of Neutrality
How to let what you know inform the process rather than directing it
How to differentiate your material from your clients’ material
How to walk out in the middle of the movie rather than getting drawn into client’s process
Skills of Precision
Building a capacity with alacrity
Skills of Palpation
Teaching a variety of touches and perceptions to support the client’s needs and meet them where they are with a pressure that meets them where they are.
Skills of Relationship
Boundaries
Empathy without Merging
Compassion
Negotiating Proximity and Distance to find the place where client and practitioner choose to meet.
