https:\/\/bodytheology.co.za\/2018\/11\/28\/the-power-of-storytelling\/<\/a> ). I have touched upon some of it in previous blogs and shall expound them further in 2019:<\/p>\n[desideratum\/ plural noun: desiderata – something that is needed or wanted or required<\/em>]<\/p>\n\n- We should explore what \u201cdeep listening<\/em>\u201d entails and how we protect ourselves from compassion fatigue.<\/li>\n
- We should explore how language work in the body (of which the brain is part off) and enable clients to \u201cfind the words that work<\/em>\u201d. We still tend to divide brain and body, body and mind.<\/li>\n
- We should explore the gap between experiences and language, the space or moment between what we experience before we try to put those happenings into words or narratives \u2013 we should find ways to explore the unsaid<\/em>.<\/li>\n
- IPNB (Interpersonal Neurobiology) refers to interpersonal attunement<\/em> as the experience of a sense of emotional attunement with another attentive individual. I want to go further – as therapists (narrative or pastoral) it is not only an emotional attunement we experience with our clients. We form an \u201cinter-embodied understanding<\/em>\u201d with the person sitting across us. We should explore what this means.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Then storytelling becomes more than just the telling of stories, but together we author a coherent narrative, \u201cweaving their stories into our own stories<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWhile the telling of stories can be therapeutic, not all storytelling is therapy.\u201d \u2013 Jacob In this blog, I would like to sketch a few desiderata for narrative therapy flowing from the power of storytelling (https:\/\/bodytheology.co.za\/2018\/11\/28\/the-power-of-storytelling\/ ). I have touched upon some of it in previous blogs and shall expound them further in 2019: [desideratum\/ …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bodystory.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bodystory.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bodystory.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bodystory.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bodystory.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bodystory.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348,"href":"https:\/\/bodystory.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions\/348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bodystory.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bodystory.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bodystory.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bodystory.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}