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Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
done with this?" Well, Stephen if you're ever going to listen to this
I'm done with it and you were part of that, thank you.
TRIP: You have beautiful ways of saying things, and I want to
share some of them, and also I might ask you also if you want to
do one of your guided meditations, for example, you did flowing
with the Tao, or the walk on the beach. It might be fun for you to
do one of those, but I just thought I'd read something you wrote.
You said, "Healing presence", and this was advice for therapists,
you say, "Healing presence is the key to everything in the
therapeutic encounter; it is the key to everything in any encounter
for that matter. Pay attention to every word as a thirsty man pays
attention to water. Keep your mind silent and don't think of what
you want to say next. Forget your treatment plan; allow your
words and interventions to arise naturally in the moment of the
encounter with the other. Listen intensely and your therapy will
become a healing meditation for your client and for you". That's
beautiful. You write beautifully, and you've written many
beautiful things like that.
RICHARD YOUNG: Thank you.
TRIP: Do you want to comment a little bit more about the therapy
of intense listening?
RICHARD YOUNG: Yes, I would. I've been doing therapy now for
32 years or something like that. I can remember as a young
therapist in the first five years I would spend inordinate amounts
of time getting ready for sessions, reading the case notes, and
planning in my mind what techniques I was going to use next, and
trying to fathom what it was this person would need from me.
And more times than not I would get into as session with this
treatment plan in my head and ready to go, and ready to change
the world, and change this person, and it would just flop, it would
just fall flat. They would come in with some entirely different
thing they wanted to talk about, and would totally screw up my
treatment plan [Laughs]. , I thought that was pretty rude of them
quite frankly.
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