Symbolic Modelling is also known as alert hypnosis, fragmentation therapy and metaphor therapy and is a way for us to relate to the complex world of our thoughts, feelings and bodily sensations. At its heart is clean language, a profoundly respectful questioning process developed by internationally acclaimed therapist David Grove. Symbolic Modelling helps individuals become familiar with their personal metaphors and symbols ("I'm going round in circles," "I feel empty," "I've lost my connection to the spiritual") so they discover new ways of perceiving themselves and their world. When clients use metaphor to describe their inner experience they are revealing something uniquely personal and meaningful. A metaphor is like a hologram, it contains the essence of the whole person; and as a client's metaphors change, so their behaviour, thoughts and feelings change as well. Symbolic modelling is both simple and profound; a powerful tool that helps people to retrieve the lost fragments of personality caused by trauma, illness, conflict and upheaval.

 

Who Benefits

Practically everyone, since metaphor is easier to express than using words to describe how one is feeling. The unconscious mind is very much at home when using metaphor to describe states of mind. Symbolic Modelling is good at unlocking post-traumatic stress and deep-seated emotional problems with out having to relive painful memories.

 

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