Seminar Four: Skills of Conversation
Clinical Skills of Engagement
~ Focus of seminar: Learning to initiate conversations with tissues, potency, fluids and inertial fulcrums.
~ Palpating inertial fulcrums and the history of the patient.
~ Fluid skills: Direction of fluids and potency, perceiving and initiating lateral fluctuations of fluid and potency.
~ The principle of disengagement as a conversation skill.
~ Disengagement, within sutures and joints.
~ The principle of traction as a conversational skill.
~ Traction and the reciprocal tension membranes.
~ Stillpoints.
~ CV4 and EV4.
~ Trauma skills reviewed, dissociation discussed.
~ Clinical connections and applications.
In this seminar students continue their clinical exploration into inertial fulcrums and begin to learn further ways of relating to them. Within this context, various clinical approaches to fluids and tissues are taught as conversation skills. Students learn to listen to the story , or history, of the patient and to use particular skills to converse with them. As this process deepens, students learn to offer options and to help the system access its innate potential for Health. These skills are offered as conversations in which the system has a context for the telling of the story or history, of the patient. They include the clinical conversations of fluid direction, the use of lateral fluctuations in inertial situations, disengagement and traction. Disengagement as a natural process, and the action of potency within space, is discussed and explored.
Additional attention is also placed on the therapeutic role of stillness and on stillpoint facilitation. Students review the stillpoint skills of CV4 in relationship to trauma and autonomic nervous system cycling. Dissociation as a protective mind-body process is discussed and related verbal skills are introduced. The stillpoint skill of EV4 is introduced and its clinical role in dissociation discussed.
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