At the fundamental level, therapy employs techniques to facilitate change. The practitioner's use of techniques, coupled with their mindset on change, can determine the efficacy of the work. This webinar draws on core concepts in Paul Peluso's two excellent books: Principles of Counseling and Psychotherapy: Learning the Essential Domains and Nonlinear Thinking of Master Practitioners and Advanced Principles of Counselling and Psychotherapy: Learning, Integrating, and Consolidating the Nonlinear Thinking of Master Practitioners. Peluso offers a model for progressing therapy practice from the initial linear, step-by-step approach to one that embraces and engages the rich complexity of the human condition.
This webinar will also integrate complementary interdisciplinary perspectives from the presenter's PhD research, notably Design Thinking and how it addresses complex problems by leveraging intuition and creativity. For the experienced practitioner: this webinar will support your ongoing reflective practice, identify what nonlinear techniques you are already using, and map out areas for further investigation and development. For the novice practitioner: this webinar will provide an introductory understanding and a potential framework to plan your development into a future master practitioner.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Explore what nonlinear thinking is and how it extends and enriches the techniques and work of therapy.
- Present some characteristics of complexity, such as paradoxes.
- Review the change impact of linear and nonlinear thinking via the concepts of First and Second Order change.
- Examine Peluso's model and how it might inform the ongoing development of your professional practice.
- Introduce techniques that enable nonlinear thinking from the domains of counselling and Design Thinking.
