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Death

7 techniques · 5 approaches
ACT
Epitaph
Epitaph
A deep values exercise. The client imagines how they would want to be remembered at the end of life. The aim is not morbidity, but contact w…
Deurzen
Confronting Existential Givens
Confronting Existential Givens
Van Deurzen follows the existential-philosophical tradition, viewing death, freedom, loneliness, and meaninglessness as irreducible "givens"…
Deurzen
Working with Mortality and Finitude
Working with Mortality and Finitude
In the physical dimension (Umwelt), death holds a central place. Van Deurzen sees the awareness of mortality not as a pathology but as a nec…
Frankl
Tragic Triad Work
Tragic Triad Work
Work with the three unavoidable tragic realities: suffering, guilt, and death. The technique does not remove these realities but helps find …
Gestalt
Unfinished Business
Unfinished Business
An unfinished business is an uncompleted exchange that keeps demanding energy in the present. Words that were not said, anger that was not e…
Yalom
Death Awareness
Death Awareness
A conscious meeting with the fact of one's own finitude as a resource for reorientation: small grievances lose weight; what really matters b…
Yalom
Rippling / Legacy
Rippling / Legacy
To help the client see that their life leaves a trace in other people — waves of influence ripple out and continue far, even when invisible.…
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