11.4.1 Exercise:
Practicing Two Chair Work
Training in two chair work is best carried out in experiential learning workshops in which trainees practice it in both client and therapist roles. We strongly recommend that you experience Two Chair Work in the client role before you attempt to facilitate someone else in it. Doing so will improve your confidence and empathic attunement. This task really doesn’t make sense until you’ve gone through it from the inside and experienced its potential difficulties and power for yourself.
Once you have some experience in the client role, you can begin to
practice facilitating someone else’s two chair work, using what you have
learned to keep yourself on track.
Materials designed to
accompany the book Learning Emotion-Focused Therapy: The
Process-Experiential Approach to Change from APA Books.
©2003 Robert Elliott, Jeanne Watson, Rhonda Goldman, and Leslie Greenberg
http://www.process-experiential.org/learning