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From: Woody
Date: 10/6/01
Time: 2:28:29 PM
Remote Name: 134.29.30.167
Hi Gunars:
Thank you for your thoughtful response. Most of the things you discuss are thoughts, or cognitions, not feelings. I tried to restrict myself to emotions in the paper. Of course, false beliefs such as hopelessness also need to be dealt with and there are excellent techniques for dealing with them. I think nothing gives more hope than success in therapy, so I always try to work for some early gains. Hopelessness disappears immediately when clients sense that they are going to find some relief. Another antidote to hopelessness is seeing other people succeed, which often happens at NSA meetings.
Yes, we are still doing workshops. We are sending out a mailing now for a series of workshops for SLP's to learn our techniques.
Also, I have just concluded a series of "intensive" therapy weeks in Chincoteague, Virginia. My conclusion is that they went very well, and that this is a highly efficient way to provide therapeutic skills and knowledge to individuals. I will be doing more of these "intensives" in the future. By the way, I put quotations around that word because in fact it seemed to me that the therapy experience was anything but intensive. It was far more comfortable and laid back than usual. We cooked together, shopped together, fished together, in fact we did everything together, and talked and talked and talked. I think I enjoyed it as much as the clients did.
Woody