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From: Walt Manning
Date: 06 Oct 2006
Time: 09:59:58 -0500
Remote Name: 141.225.97.231
Hello Gunars - It's good so see that you are doing well with your practice. I agree with the comments by you and Gary about letting the client take the lead. Some thoughts: When choosing someone to help you through new and sometimes frightening territory, it’s good to have a guide who has made the same or a similar trek before, someone who understands the nature of the journey. I conceive of good clinicians who are guides who have been on similar journeys with others, and possibly ourselves. Sometimes guides are in the front, sometimes not. There are times, as a guide, that you need to let the other person set the pace, choose the way, and even take a trail that we suspect is not the best. It is possible that the trail we prefer is not the best one for the other person, at least at that time, on that particular journey. It could be that the trail that is chosen does not make much difference as long as the destination is achieved. It may be than a less efficient trail is better if it results in greater learning about the nature of the trek. All of these things may be particularly true in those cases when then final destination is not always knowable until you arrive.