Learning Objectives

Identify two types of resources—regulating resources and information-gathering resources.

Demonstrate how the direct awareness of their own experience changes their experience.

Define the three building blocks of our conscious experience—thought, sensation, and external senses.

Practice using the Constructed Awareness Questionnaire.

Identify certain words that offer clues to how the client’s system is oriented.

Identify the six orientation types.

Describe how emotions are cultural constructions.

Demonstrate techniques for tuning and bringing direct awareness to each of the three building blocks of our conscious experience—thought, sensation, and external senses.

Identify how their nervous system orients thoughts, sensations, and/or external senses.

Identify subtle ways they may be acting or communicating violently with clients.

Demonstrate at least one information-gathering resources.

Apply nonviolence to working with sensations.

Identify certain buffer words that indicate the client may be thinking about what they are feeling or might be feeling rather than directly connecting with sensation.

Tell how to bring present-moment awareness to their sense of sound.

Tell how to bring present-moment awareness to their sense of sight.

Tell how to bring present-moment awareness to their sense of touch.

Tell how to bring spontaneous awareness to the client’s experience.

Differentiate direct experience of sensation from thoughts.

Identify thoughts as words, sounds, and pictures.

Apply nonviolence to working with thoughts.

Describe how the brain interprets and projects reality.

Practice how to perform at least one relational resource.

Practice how to perform at least one boundary resource.