Seven Systems of the Self
Physical
How physical challenges influence personal and psychological development. From fatigue and fitness to aging, physical and psychological factors impact on one another. It is important to separate their effects.
Environmental
Describing how to manage the environment and understand one's role in constructing that environment.
Cognitive
Assessing your cognitive styles, core beliefs, ways of managing personal and general information. Explore the impact of this on your capacity to function at your best.
Emotional
Examining emotional styles, defenses, emotion regulation. Find out your emotional profile.
Relational
Looking at your relational style. Impact of relationships, past present and future. Describe 'optimal relationships' and 'toxic criticism'. Introduce new models of conflict resolution.
Personal-Historical
If you understand your history you are not doomed to repeat it. Examination of the impact of your 'Inner' history, and your capacity to harness it constructively.
Spiritual
Examination of how to use spiritual resources to access different levels of inner strength. Exploring the secular applications of spiritual belief systems.
Four Guides to Change
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1.Know How to Read the Map
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2.Know How Real Change Happens
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3.Know the Way Out - Pitfalls and Corrections
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4.Know Your Real Self
Pivot Points Workshops
While psychotherapy is all about change, shockingly little has been written that is based on HOW it actually occurs. As a result, we have a plethora of popular psychology and self-help books that give information and then magically assume people will be able to practice what they've been taught. They are wrong.
This landmark workshop series actually addresses the psychology of HOW you change; therefore it stands alone among those that promise a new life, but cannot deliver. PIVOT POINTS offers a methodical way to understand what happens when you attempt to do something new.
Everyone knows that when you try to change, you are bound to hit the wall. It's true with diet and exercise, managing your time, your relationships, your money and business strategies – everything. Why does every psychology and self help book ignore this vital fact? When the first flush of victory fades, as it must, you can be left feeling empty, ill equipped and possibly even defective. Nothing could be further from the truth. True change isn't based simply on will power and motivation.
Changing the course of your life is like flying a plane. When you try to change course, you hit psychological turbulence. To navigate through it successfully you need two things.
1. The equivalent of a pilot's understanding of aerodynamics. This empowers you to work with, and not against, the true forces of change. The rules of change aren't usually taught, even to psychologists. But once you know them, they make sense out of what formerly seemed like chaos.
2. A psychological flight manual. A pilot must know the systems of the plane in order to assess and adjust them when times are rough. So must you. Dr. Kauffman identifies and describes 7 systems of the self. When you learn to recognize and use them you will be fully equipped to make the small and precise shifts that can tilt the balance of your life in the direction you want.
In the PIVOT POINT Workshop I present the SEVEN SYSTEMS and the FOUR GUIDES to change. This is followed by an afternoon session with discussion of applying the principles learned to specific topics, such as relationships, crisis and trauma, health and fitness, and success.
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