Self-awareness
The term self-awareness refers to getting to know and reflecting on the experience and action of one's own person ( self ), for example in challenging situations.
Self-awareness is also called the process as part of his training as a psychotherapist , family therapist or coach where the aspiring therapist or coach the applicable procedures and methods in the client role in yourself experiencing.
Self-awareness (non-therapeutic)
Self-experience in a non-therapeutic framework is made possible by speaking about oneself (in social and therapeutic conversations), by experiencing oneself in groups and group-dynamic processes as well as through borderline experiences , e.g. B. also as part of survival training , extreme sports, training to promote team building or intensive surveys. Self-awareness can help to make people aware of their own behavior patterns , and also to let go. It is not aimed at alleviating a disease.
Self-awareness (therapeutic)
An essential component in the training to become a psychotherapist , family therapist , group psychotherapist , group dynamician and supervisor is therapeutic or group self-awareness. In the role of the person concerned, the training candidate experiences the method and the effect on himself before he applies it to clients. As a result, he experiences related feelings (hopes, fears) and recognizes obstructive resistances and beneficial mechanisms. The relationship experience in the role of the client to the therapist is also essential. For all of the qualified training courses mentioned here, therapeutic self-awareness with a prescribed number of hours is the admission criterion.
Self-awareness is also taught as part of training to become a coach .
Scientific investigations
An overview study on self-awareness in therapist training reported positive and negative aspects of self-awareness in almost the same number. The positive aspects included becoming aware of your own personal conflicts and emotional issues, as well as getting to know the client's perspective. The negative sides included the high costs, fear of possible evaluation in the therapy and often a relationship of dependency when the teaching therapist was also the respective training manager.
Self-awareness group
A self-awareness group is a form of group dynamics or group therapy . The aim is to experience “oneself”, to gain personal knowledge, to develop personally and to learn socially . Topics are personal attitudes, attitudes and values, experience and behavior, as well as their meaning and consequences on interpersonal relationships and the processes in groups. It's about closeness and distance, contact and communication, effectiveness, authority and power. The field of experience is a group of 10 to 12 participants, led by a pair of trainers. In group dynamic training, this process is part of the training group (T-Group). If the focus of a group dynamic training is on self-awareness, one speaks of sensitivity training, which is more about feeling, sensitivity, empathy and the ability to resonate.
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Footnotes
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from July 9, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Therapy training: self-awareness: lots of light, lots of shadow . ( Spektrum.de [accessed on September 9, 2018]).
- ↑ Understanding group processes: group dynamic research and practice
