Core Competencies of Ericksonian Therapy - Introduction with Dan Short, PhD and Scott Miller, PhD 

This work is a great contribution to the Ericksonian field. Thanks a lot for sharing.

always very clear developing the explanation of the theory and practice

Thank you for this interview and for doing this work 🙏. It is an important contribution indeed. I particularly benefited from the discussion on Deliberate Practice and how this requires a high level of self awareness for one to continually be aware, reflect on and examine one's edge and seek to develop around and beyond that edge. This is what we are doing with our clients. To me, there are many ways of looking at Milton... Many ways... One is What did he do? Another is How he did what he did? Another is Why did he do it that way? Another is Who was he being? Another is How did he prepare? Another, What Another is How did he live? What were the core principles and values he adhered to? And there are many books by his students and family members answering these questions. We could put him on the dissection table, so to speak, and examine the parts and/or we could look at the Whole of Milton, the totality of who he was as a Human being, as a Son, as a Sibling, as a Husband, as a Father, as a Grand father, as A Friend, as a Therapist, as a Teacher, as a Mentor, ... The Whole, being so much bigger than the sum of the parts... He was a Larger-Than-Life figure who wanted to ignite that potentiality in us and He showed up as himself in Service of His Patients and he knew how to engage the service of his Mind in service of his Patients. To me, this is the essence of his work, everything else is icing on the cake, so to speak. Where ever he invited his patients to go, he'd go there first. Much like co-regulation.... He let his patients rely on his Resources and Resourcefulness (kindness, patience, caring, comforting, compassionate, understanding, loving, generosity, awareness, brilliance, resiliency, originality, ..., even assertive, confident, ...) until they were able to rely on their own. Milton - in my view - was a Maverick. He did not want others to be him, to mimic or parrot him, he wanted others to find their own voice and their own way to tap into magic and do good work. And this is a sign of a True Master... He was modelling for us Who to Be and How to Be - and not just in the therapy room and with a patient - but in Life and with all our Relations, in Relating with Life itself. He was also, a shape-shifter to me, in a sense that he displayed Attributes that a Patient needed in the context of the Problem or Situation they were Facing. He'd be Who they needed them To be for the Change Process to ensue. So... Who to be First, Then, What to Do and How to do it, and When to do it... And all this is a matter of Being With the Patient, with understanding of the Core Principles an and the Essence or the underlying function they serve. If we think about it, really think about it deeply, and seriously, these principles apply to life, and not particularly to therapy but to every interaction. We can be Natural (Naturalistic), we can live Strategically (live a purpose-driven, meaningful life), we can welcome what life brings (utilizing), we can tailor our responses (to the individuals we meet and situations we find ourselves in), we can be flexible in our perspective (seeing how much of reality is made up and how we can see through the ambiguities we allow ourselves to see), we can employ both faculties of our mind train ourselves to speak creatively (using destabilization in service of the other, as the spice of life) to ignite change from within another...., we can be more expressive, using - as Jeff mentions - the entire palette of words, gestures, expression, voice, ... and (living Experientially) in our day to day communication so that be breathe life into our interactions, we can be optimist (living life through the lens of positive expectancy), yet remaining unattached to a particular result, ... So... There is a scent of universality to the principles Milton so well exemplified and embodied in his life. And it was a way of Relating with life, or I should say a way of Being first and Foremost, because if we are not Being first, our Relations will Reflect back to us that we are not Being... Which is fine, because this is what Cybernetics and Feedback loop is all about... Because then we adjust our Being to the Embodiment of the Desired Attributes, must like a Sail boat in the water... This is just my humble understanding... Thank you for the contribution you are making. May Milton's work continue to touch many to come; May we strive to be as successful in serving others in eliciting change from within, helping them become larger-than-life 🙏. Thank you again 🙏

Enjoyed the discussion and totally agree with the premises. I might add that the differences in the techniques might be related to the differences in the professional disciplines, and the philosophical perspective underlying "deliberate practice". Thoughts?

How can one get access to the Treatment Manual which you are mentioning ?? Because in my understanding it would be useful for anyone working with people be it any form of therapy. It would give them the scope to not only understand Ericksonian Therapy, at the same time would be an opportunity to incorporate it.

Omg I feel like that too 🤷🏻‍♀️worry worry about my clients