Safety issues make Vulnerability difficult to practice in workshop
format in the client role, with peers and supervisors looking on. At the same time, the vital
interpersonal context of this task makes it difficult to practice on your
own. As an exercise to do by
yourself, try to remember a point in your life when you felt vulnerable, in
despair or at the end of your rope.
Then, spend 30 to 60 minutes journaling about that time. As you do so, try to imagine that you
are writing a letter to an important, caring person in your life (either past
or present), someone you feel you could trust to tell this to.
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