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ride the dragon

Preparation is Crucial

The Journey Can Get Intense

The Journey Can Get Intense

 The psychological risk of recommitting to the therapeutic journey must not be underestimated. “Though the terrors will recede before a genuine psychological readiness, the over-bold adventurer beyond his depth may be shamelessly undone” (Campbell, 1972. p.84). 

The Journey Can Get Intense

The Journey Can Get Intense

The Journey Can Get Intense

  The Journey may be disquieting and even intense at a multisensory level. In the best of cases, though, “it is the price of admission to an authentically renewed life” (Entering the Dark Forest of the Psyche, 2019). 

Psychological Safety

The Journey Can Get Intense

Draw Upon Your Experience

 The psychological risk of recommitting to the therapeutic journey must not be underestimated. “Though the terrors will recede before a genuine psychological readiness, the over-bold adventurer beyond his depth may be shamelessly undone” (Campbell, 1972. p.84).  

Draw Upon Your Experience

Draw Upon Your Experience

Draw Upon Your Experience

Explore previous experiences of safety and competency and to activate memories of what it feels like to experience pleasure, enjoyment, focus, power, and effectiveness before activating trauma-related sensations and emotions” (van der Kolk, 2006, pg. 4).  

Refine Your Skills

Draw Upon Your Experience

Refine Your Skills

 Self-management skill such as mindfulness, breathwork and recalling pleasant, anchoring-imagery are a few of the many grounding strategies one may learn.

Prepare To Go Deep

Draw Upon Your Experience

Refine Your Skills

Be attuned to the emergence of Complexes, Defense Mechanisms, Heuristics, Biases.

Draw upon the peronality traits upon which you can rely to be true, rally alliances and resources.

Knowledge Bank II

Roleply and CBT Applied (pdf)

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Archetypes Applied (pdf)

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Week 4: Prepare to Meet the Shadow

Focus: Building resilience by recognizing barriers and preparing for upcoming challenges.

  1. CBT Focus: Identifying how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact when facing a challenge.
  2. Assessment Tool: Coping Strategies Inventory – Assessing how the individual typically handles stress and challenges.
  3. Expressive Arts Activity:
    • Children: Create a comic strip showing how they faced a recent challenge and what emotions (like Inside Out characters) helped or hindered them.
    • Adults: Visualize a challenging situation and reflect on how each emotion played a role in overcoming or making the challenge harder.

  1. Experiential Family Therapy Activity: Families discuss a current challenge they are facing together and brainstorm ways to approach it as a team.
  2. Executive Functioning Homework Assignment:
    • Children: Create a “Challenge Map” with their parent, identifying daily challenges and steps to overcome them.
    • Adults: Write down a challenge they faced this week and break down the steps they took to manage it.

building resilience

Video from Harvard University

gather your wits and hone your skills

 

 

Homework Assignment for Week 4


  • Parent-Child Attachment Activity: Create a Challenge Map with your parent or family. Each day, write down a small challenge you faced and how you overcame it. At the end of the week, reflect on what you learned.
  • Executive Functioning Activity:
    • Children: Identify one challenge they will face during the week (e.g., a school task or social situation). Break it down into smaller steps and work with their parent to tackle each step.
    • Adults: Reflect on a current challenge and write out the steps they took to manage the situation. Discuss how planning and breaking the problem into smaller parts helped.

Assessment Tools
Lifetrap TestDefense Style Questionaire

Journey Journal

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Chapter 4

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