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Presence

18 techniques · 8 approaches
CoLeC
Dialogical Conversation
Dialogical Conversation
Dialogue, for Anderson, is not just an exchange of lines (those are monologues taking turns). A real dialogue is a space in which something …
CoLeC
Generous Listening
Generous Listening
Generous listening is listening "with the best intent": hearing what the person wants to say, not what you expect to hear. It is an active p…
CoLeC
Not-Knowing Stance
Not-Knowing Stance
The therapist enters the conversation without prepared hypotheses, diagnoses, or "correct" interpretations. Not-knowing is not pretended ign…
CoLeC
Withness Practices
Withness Practices
"Withness" — the central metaphor of Anderson's stance. It is a quality of presence in which the therapist literally "is with" the client in…
Deurzen
Phenomenological Method (Epoché, Description, Equalization, Horizontalization)
Phenomenological Method (Epoché, Description, Equalization, Horizontalization)
Van Deurzen's basic toolkit: the therapist deliberately "brackets" their own assumptions, theories, and interpretations in order to meet the…
Focusing
Experiential Listening
Experiential Listening
The basic skill of an FOT therapist: listening not to words and not even to emotions, but to the underlying felt sense — the whole, not-yet-…
Focusing
Focusing Partnership
Focusing Partnership
A pair-practice format in which two people share the time equally and switch roles: the focuser works with their inner experience, the liste…
Focusing
Keeping Company
Keeping Company
The therapist "keeps company" with what the client is experiencing — without trying to change, fix, improve. That alone is a powerful therap…
Focusing
Presence Language
Presence Language
Ann Weiser Cornell's development of Gendlin's method: a shift in language that creates space between the I and the experience. Instead of "I…
Gestalt
Awareness Continuum
Awareness Continuum
For several minutes the client keeps answering the question "What are you noticing now?" — without interpretation, without "should be", only…
Gestalt
Dialogical Contact (I-Thou)
Dialogical Contact (I-Thou)
The I-Thou meeting after Martin Buber — the philosophical ground of relational Gestalt Therapy. Not I as the subject looking at the client a…
Gestalt
Here and Now
Here and Now
The main principle of Gestalt Therapy: bringing the past and the future into the present moment. Not "when I was a child, my mother.." but …
Gestalt
Inclusion
Inclusion
The therapist's capacity to be fully present with the client — to enter their world without losing oneself. This is not "I know how you feel…
Gestalt
Presentification
Presentification
A specific technique for moving the narration of the past into the present tense. The client says not "I was scared" but "I am scared". Not …
Längle
Phenomenological Dialogue
Phenomenological Dialogue
The base stance and method of conducting a therapeutic conversation in existential analysis. The therapist does not interpret but follows th…
MBCT
Mindful Movement / Mindful Yoga
Mindful Movement / Mindful Yoga
Gentle movements (simple yoga poses, stretches, bends) are performed slowly and with full attention to body sensations. The aim is not flexi…
MBSR
Walking Meditation
Walking Meditation
Slow, deliberate walking with full attention to the sensations of movement: lifting the foot, carrying it, touching the ground, rolling the …
Yalom
Therapeutic Presence
Therapeutic Presence
The full engagement of the therapist here and now: letting go of plans, techniques, ready answers — and genuine meeting with the person. Bug…
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