Need a pattern interrupt and some help with motivation? Watch the first ten minutes of this: https://lnkd.in/ei-Eypih
Change happens when you implement quickly.
I <3 Dr. Bandler. Ever since I was a mental health therapist in Santa Cruz; which I quit after two months as the model of personality disorders + legal & financial structure of "conserving" an individual, seemed abusive in a percentage of the cases, to me.
Dr. Lucie Hemmen, a Buddhist PhD, was working with me on goals and graceful transitions, and I personally viewed it, as an extension of the weekly visits I'd had with doctors, ever since I was adopted. We would do meditations together, and we talked about various strategies to be successful in work, school, and sports.
I worked in finance, but wanted to be a therapist, at the time. (I ended up earning a master's diploma in therapy a decade later, but no license. I wanted to study it, not practice it.)
I was learning linguistic strategies to speak to Schizophrenic patients, from Patricia Knowles, RN. But Lucie's knowledge, was more valuable, to me. She said that Schizophrenia had a distinct genetic predisposition, so it's inherited. She said that sensitive individuals, who ended up being diagnosed, had to have the protein biomarker, plus problems with how they were parented, plus typically an instigating "event". I.e. drug induced.
She told me there was a specialty clinic, that "re-parented" schizophrenics, and that through this process, they were able to lose the diagnosis. I thought that, was very cool.
I ended up using the NLP that Knowles taught me, in scripted fashion, and saw for myself, how language alone, improved outcomes in clinical patients. I kept in my mind the clinic Lucie mentioned, imagining I'd discover many insights through their research. I still don't know the clinic's name.
I ended up gravitating towards Dr. Bandler, with his healthy distaste for Woody Allen type therapy & disagreement that disorders have to be fixed. Instead, he focuses on strategies that product results, through having studied quick change therapists.
I didn't entirely quit my therapy job at two months. I had to log work hours, while studying Applied Behaviorism. Ave Center, I felt, treated their patients, poorly. It was upsetting to me. After watching an abuse one day, I went on break to compose myself, but couldn't stop crying about how another practitioner, had been cruel to a patient, so quit. I ended up completing my hours over the next 1.5 yrs, with Janet Lishman, 1-1 for her Autistic son. He was treated with love and enormous support.
Those were rewarding college years for me, where I was working in finance while going to school part-time, + completing additional work hours required for Applied Behavior Analysis.
Autism Spectrum Disorders are handled "bottom-up".
Neurotypical is "top-down".
Schizophrenia is "re-parenting".
For professionals desiring change-work, Dr. Bandler's strategies are great.
