Enhance your practice as a South African psychologist with 'Advanced Awareness: Strengthening Presence & Perspective.' This talk explores noticing more within yourself, clients, and conversations, moving beyond self-awareness to foster flexibility and responsiveness, crucial for impactful therapy and support.
Advanced awareness is the ability to notice more: within yourself, within the person you're supporting, and within the wider context of the conversation. It goes beyond self-awareness, drawing on principles from coaching psychology to help you work with greater flexibility, curiosity, and responsiveness in the moment.
Sections
In this talk, you'll explore how developing advanced awareness can help you move beyond habitual ways of thinking, recognize patterns that might otherwise go unnoticed, and create new possibilities for insight and change. Rather than relying on fixed techniques, you'll learn to adapt your approach based on what is emerging in each conversation.
You'll also be introduced to the AWARE Model, a practical framework designed to help you translate these ideas into everyday practice.
Through the session and accompanying reflective activities, you'll develop practical strategies that can be applied across coaching and other helping professions to support deeper conversations and more meaningful outcomes.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this talk, participants will be able to: