Metaphors of Movement

After working with their own Metaphors of Movement through these models, the experience people generally tend to describe is a sense of being more “awake.” So often we do not pay attention to our own communication, using metaphoric words seemingly at random that are in fact incredibly rich clues into our internal experience and strategies for moving through the world. Through attending to what we are each already saying, and to the underlying metaphoric structure, suddenly the way we maintain our problems is revealed, and we have the choice to change.

All too often in counselling and therapy, the therapy session will consist of little more than exploring the client's model of suffering. By the end of therapy, the client has a better model and better set of distinctions by which they understand their suffering. They may have more words and be more eloquent in their description, and be better able to explain how they feel and how they suffer.

The “Metaphors of Movement" model is designed for those clients who do not wish to be trapped by this passivity and engages the client at an experiential and behavioural level to create a change at the source of the problem rather than at the effect of the problem.

After the "Metaphors of Movement" training experience, you'll be able to recognise what a person's metaphorical expressions mean about their experience and organisational structures, and you'll learn powerful and effective ways to guide yourself and others into discovering new movement and direction in personal life and at work that will really make a difference.

Metaphors of Movement Training
Cochin, Kerala, India
8th-11th October 2012

This is an opportunity to train with Andrew T. Austin in person in this ground breaking work for personal change and psychotherapy.

Here are just some of the things covered on this special four day event -

Part 1. Metaphors of Movement and Motion

Discover your physical/physiological metaphors
Knowing where you stand – the starting point
The 4 primary strategies of metaphorical movement: Which primary strategy do you rely on? What are your other choices?
The structure of the personal story
The 4 basic elements necessary for a successful metaphor.

Part 2. Metaphors of Emotion

Weights and measures-recognize if/how you use these in the emotional realm and its impact.
How to elicit tiny details of a metaphor in order to expand the metaphorical experience
Noticing restraint and inhibition to movement
The burden of guilt, stage fright/performance anxiety
Growing up--how and when is this a useful strategy?

Part 3. Container Metaphors, Relationships, and Stuck States

Time concepts and relationships--an often overlooked aspect of change work..
Spatial orientation and distance
Metaphors of motivation--use for self and in motivating others.
Prison metaphors: we’ll look at how they crop up in conversation, and what we can learn from real prison culture that can help us with this personal story.
Pro-activity vs reactivity--knowing how and when to change between them.

Part 4. Identity and Spirituality / Illness and Disease

Spirituality means as many things as there are people. Yet using the metaphor model and stripping out all content, what do we discover to be consistent and evident amongst people’s search for “spirituality?”
The major models for illness, disease, and recovery.

 

Venue: Cochin, Kerala, India
Fee: Rs. 14,000/- (Rs. 12,000/- if booked before July 15th 2012).
Book online with deposit!

Participants who book early will also receive a free bonus DVD from "The Pragmatics of Change" DVD demonstrating Metaphors of Movement in client work.

Book this workshop and Provocative Change Works and receive an additional Rs. 1400/- discount for both workshops.

Group booking discount is available, please email directly for details.

For further details on Metaphors training, please see: Metaphors of Movement Training

Metaphors of Movement Training

“The material taught within the Metaphors of Movement and Motion workshop is both fascinating and profoundly useful. The metaphors used by each person appear to be central to their understanding of the world, and the training from this course not only helped me begin to identify and speak the language of people’s metaphors to facilitate change, but has also given me a more general insight into the pervasiveness of metaphor and their influence upon our lives. I gained insights about myself and my approach to hypnotherapy which I am certain will help me become a better communicator and therapist. I highly recommend this training. However I also give a word of warning: do not expect this approach to fit with your previous therapy trainings, it is radically different from the NLP and hypnotherapy approaches that I have been taught, your current beliefs about therapy will be challenged! Many thanks for the excellent training!" Alastair Hill, Hypnotherapist.

"We all operate largely on the metaphors we carry in our minds, but we are not aware of them. Once Andrew T. Austin exposes you to the world of metaphor, you will never experience the world in the same way again."

"Forget outcomes, scripts, quick fixes, labels, rigidity, supremacy and hard sales. Instead, this workshop offers a respectful framework which can assist rapport, clarity, insight, movement and change. Based on clinical experiences and ancient wisdom, Andy has created a model which when applied with authenticity, has the potential to liberate and transform the experiences of both the therapist and the client." Counsellor/Psychotherapist, Sussex

"This training has helped me have a completely different view of all the training I’ve had to this point. My view of the world and others has expanded where I can fit so much more into it."