Those who practice the art and craft of helping are in themselves the main ‘tools of the trade’. Simply stated by Alfred Adler, “The technique of treatment must be in yourself.” When it comes to InnerView Guidance, the approach implies that you are also on a psychospiritual path of soul growth. Your interventions with clients will sound like counselling correct clichés unless your energetic presence speaks to them beyond the words exchanged in a session. Your very personhood needs to be engaged; along with the relating skills you bring to the helping relationship, there is the quality of consciousness clients sense in your presence. That involves where you are on your own journey of maturity and wisdom. Lest this sound daunting, it doesn’t mean you have to be a perfect person to qualify – just the opposite – the best helpers and healers have one foot in their firsthand experience of the issues (even if it’s to a lesser degree) and one foot out. It’s like the way great ‘method actors’ find within themselves the essential traits of characters they are playing. It’s also the key to achieving therapeutic attunement with your clients.
Sample questions for practitioners to ponder
Client Assessment
See the kind of questions we use to understand where a client stands today, and where their soul wants to go.
