CGC6: Framing and Metaphor
Welcome to this chapter!
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Metaphors are a powerful tool. When you can learn to dive into the land of metaphor, completely different perspectives can show up. Metaphors allow the client to access a different part of their brain, effectively accessing a new resource they probably didn’t know they had. With this new awareness, new perspectives and solutions will become available.
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Exercises
- Use metaphor or framing to help a client look at their situation in a new way this week.
- Come up with new ways to find metaphors: for example, elements from nature (animals, plants, landscapes, and weather patterns), a hobby (cooking, sports, etc.) or types of vehicles (from tricycles to supersonic jets). What other elements could you use?
- Think of a situation or challenge in your own life and find a metaphor that describes the situation. Create a story staying with the metaphor (and not “reality”). See what new realizations occur to you.
- Consider new ways to frame a situation. How might you look at a situation from outside?