[Audio] BT10 Workshop 47 – Transforming Survival Strategies – Robert Dilts

Description:

A key issue in brief therapy involves clients’ regression into survival strategies. Survival strategies are activated by a perceived threat to our physical or psychological survival, and include: fight (attack), flight (escape), freeze (paralysis) or surrender (submit). Updating survival strategies involves reviewing key life situations and bringing new resources into these experiences at several levels.

Educational Objectives:

1. Define and illustrate the role of survival strategies in the process of psychotherapy.
2. Present a model and method for transforming survival strategies into a more generative approach to dealing with threatening situations.
3. List the survival strategies that can’t be successfully transformed and what new resources can be utilized in experiences.

*Sessions may be edited for content and to preserve confidentiality*