7.5.2. Exercise: Marker Work
Second, on your own or in a training workshop, do some marker work:
Spend a few minutes attending to your inner experience; ask yourself, “What has
my attention right now? What is
occupying my mind?” Then give
yourself a few minutes to identify one or more “preoccupying issues.” If you are doing this on your own,
write them down; if you are in a training group, share one if you feel safe
doing so. Next, reflect on the
qualities of this marker: See how many of the following apply to it:
•interesting
or puzzling
•powerful
or troubling
•undifferentiated,
global or abstract
•mostly
about something external
•a
more specific marker that you already know about (such as a conflict split)
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