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Episode 6: CA and Nonviolence

- 00:00 – Welcome and introduction to Jandita Zaki
- 02:40 – Overview of CA and its first principle: awareness brings change
- 04:55 – Ron Kurtz’s influence and the concept of “violence” in therapy
- 07:20 – Jandita’s personal experience discovering nonviolence in CA training
- 12:05 – Filling vs holding space: therapist discomfort and the urge to help
- 19:10 – Sitting with silence vs holding silence in session
- 23:30 – Resistance, duality, and how advice-giving creates tension
- 25:50 – Helping interns move from fixing to presence
- 28:10 – Mindfulness as repression vs mindfulness as presence
- 32:40 – Sitting with emotions without promising outcomes
- 37:05 – Nonviolent language: “I want you to” vs invitational phrasing
- 41:40 – Co-regulation, childhood experiences, and emotions as involuntary
- 46:10 – Cultural perspectives on emotions like anger
- 50:40 – Eurocentric therapy vs CA’s flexible building blocks of experience
- 55:40 – How CA helps clients discover their own inner wisdom
- 58:00 – How to connect with Jandita and resources on Constructed Awareness
...more
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By Tyler Orr
Episode 6: CA and Nonviolence

- 00:00 – Welcome and introduction to Jandita Zaki
- 02:40 – Overview of CA and its first principle: awareness brings change
- 04:55 – Ron Kurtz’s influence and the concept of “violence” in therapy
- 07:20 – Jandita’s personal experience discovering nonviolence in CA training
- 12:05 – Filling vs holding space: therapist discomfort and the urge to help
- 19:10 – Sitting with silence vs holding silence in session
- 23:30 – Resistance, duality, and how advice-giving creates tension
- 25:50 – Helping interns move from fixing to presence
- 28:10 – Mindfulness as repression vs mindfulness as presence
- 32:40 – Sitting with emotions without promising outcomes
- 37:05 – Nonviolent language: “I want you to” vs invitational phrasing
- 41:40 – Co-regulation, childhood experiences, and emotions as involuntary
- 46:10 – Cultural perspectives on emotions like anger
- 50:40 – Eurocentric therapy vs CA’s flexible building blocks of experience
- 55:40 – How CA helps clients discover their own inner wisdom
- 58:00 – How to connect with Jandita and resources on Constructed Awareness
...more