CA Level One Learning Objectives — Constructed Awareness

Learning Objectives

At the completion of the program, participants will be able to:

Define a self-regulating resource and a self-awareness resource
Explain three examples of how direct awareness changes a client’s experience
Define the three building blocks of the client’s conscious experience—thought, sensation, and external senses

Use the Emotion Tracker Worksheet to differentiate the three building blocks—thoughts, sensations, and external senses
Use the Constructed Awareness Questionnaire (CAQ)
Identify 10 words that offer clues to how the client’s system is oriented
Differentiate the six orientation styles of the CA typology

Describe how emotions are cultural constructions
Utilize three techniques for bringing direct awareness to each of the three building blocks of the conscious experience—thought, sensation, and external senses
Identify three self-awareness resources
Identify 10 words that indicate the client may be thinking about what they are feeling rather than directly connecting with sensation
Apply one self-awareness resource when working with the sense of sound
Utilize one self-awareness resource when working with the sense of sight
Utilize one self-awareness resource when working with sensations
Practice one method of bringing spontaneous awareness to the client’s experience
Present a thought as a word, as a sound, and as a picture.