Sublime

I was excited by process work’s determination to embrace the disavowed aspects of our experiences, and its efforts to go beyond solutions to our problems towards more sustainable approaches to body symptoms, near-death experiences, relationship issues, extreme states, and large group conflict situations.

Katherine Sarafian, another Pixar producer, credits the clinical psychologist Taibi Kahler with giving her a helpful way of visualizing her role. “One of Kahler’s big teachings is about meeting people where they are,” Katherine says, referring to what Kahler calls the Process Communication Model,

So I started trying to help my clients listen to their troublesome parts rather than fight them, and was astounded to find that their parts all had similar stories to tell of how they had to take on protective roles at some point in the person’s past—often roles that they hated but felt were needed to save the client.

Self-Observations

Shin Somatics pedagogy is based on several key principles. Shin appreciates both the mental, analytical proficiencies and the intuitive, feeling capabilities of participants. Because it is a creative system that values integrative ways

“the success of an intervention depends on the interior condition of the intervener.”