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…]
The motivational worker and the client encounter each other through their contact rebuses, and if a complete motivational relationship is to form, there has to be mutual bonding between them. It is, in effect, a relationship between a contracting party (the motivational worker), with a well-developed capacity for bonding to other people, and the client, … [Read more…]
The Motivtional Worker For the motivational worker, understanding means emotionally conveying to the client that he understands his experiential world. This is not an intellectual process, but an empathetic appreciation of the client’s emotional make-up that places the motivational worker so deeply in his client’s situation that part of him shares the same feelings and … [Read more…]
This emotional attitude involves the motivational worker conveying to the client that he has value as a human being; the client is shown respect regardless of who he is or what he has done. It is a feeling which corresponds to the democratic value of equal worth (Motivational Work, Part 2, Motivational Relationship, pages 36 … [Read more…]
Introduction This emotional attitude involves faith in the client’s own resources – the power he has within him which he does not exploit or fully appreciate. On an experiential level, this attitude is equivalent to self-worth or self-confidence. Although no-one knows what the future will bring, there is a difference when a person has a … [Read more…]
