When I supervised motivation workers this week, I was once again reminded of the risk of being burnt out, especially when you are afraid of your client. This situation reasonably often appears in my supervision groups. The staff is all the time confronted with very destructive and out-going behavior. If you do not have control … [Read more…]
The fundamental importance of the emotional relationship with the client to motivational work has certain consequences. In short, the motivational worker can only work with the clients with whom he feels a motivational relationship, and from this follows several corollaries. It influences the selection of clients. The most efficient motivational work occurs with the clients … [Read more…]
There is a third kind of client relationship to add to the motivational and demotivational relationships. This third relationship is based on the non-contact rebus. It means that the motivational worker has the converse of a relationship and thus has no feelings for the client (Motivational Work, Part 2, Motivational Relationship, pages 135 – 148). … [Read more…]
A typical reaction that the motivational worker can have in his demotivational process is to withdraw from the client completely. This is because he feels so bad about the relationship that his only way to escape his disquietude and stop the depletion of life energy is to break off contact (Motivational Work, Part 2, Motivational Relationship, … [Read more…]
Applying the metaphor of the preceding blog, the rock starts to crack when the motivational worker enters a demotivational process. He does not have enough life energy to detransmute his client’s contact rebus. He has to make increasing use of the more ‘economical’ way of handling pain – transmuting it into detransmutation. He gives less … [Read more…]
