Friday, June 18, 2021

Observing your Scripts

Broad Framing (see “Thinking Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman) is the practice of thinking of decisions in the context of other decisions. Rather than the specific (uncontrollable) outcome of any one fork in the road, what you are really trying to refine is the underlying process of decision-making. How do you make your choices? In terms of Narrative Therapy, you are reflecting on how your scripts work. What are your cornerstone events? What are your drivers? What are the ways that you think that often sit underneath your conscious thinking? In this particular situation, given your history, and the way that you think and feel about things, how are you likely to respond? That is what you really want to do the work on. Constantly owning, and being conscious of your underlying scripts. The stuff we are normally not even aware of. And it is really complicated. We are not necessarily going to be able to understand everything. We can get better at observing ourselves and our repeated behaviours.  



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