{"id":379,"date":"2009-07-26T09:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-26T09:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.wpdude.com\/test\/?p=379"},"modified":"2009-07-26T09:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-26T09:25:00","slug":"technique-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/07\/technique-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Technique Head"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> \u201cLearn all your theories and techniques as well as you can, and then be prepared to set them aside when you meet the miracle of the miracle of the living soul in front of you.\u201d \u2013 Carl Jung <\/em>
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Most trainers annoy me. Consultants, coaches and therapists too. Their head\u2019s are full of techniques that confuse them and me. They can\u2019t just be and get on with it \u2013 life\u2019s too complicated and dynamic for silly models. I\u2019m often the worst culprit trying to think about NonViolent Communication, Integral theory, NLP and somatics at the same time while asking my housemate to pass the ketchup…in a really clever way naturally. The result is that I get the brown sauce if I\u2019m lucky and the ketchup poured on my head if I\u2019m not. People don\u2019t like having techniques done on them. People like authenticity flow and ease \u2013 and mostly our silly techniques don\u2019t cut the ketchup.<\/div>\n

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Ultimately the training I\u2019m interested in is working at the level of being rather than tips and tricks to manipulate others. This takes some of the edge off \u201ctechnique-head\u201d as I\u2019m working on myself. I dislike much of the NLP I\u2019ve seen as it seems to be more about getting what you want than personal transformation \u2013 but practitioners of any art can be irritating technique heads. Even while working on yourself there is still a conscious incompetence (obvious and annoying) and conscious competence phase (sometimes even more obvious and annoying).<\/div>\n

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So what to do? Give up learning new stuff all together? Well no. It takes practice to learn, but once deeply assimilated techniques stop being clunky and become invisible. If you can hear the phone itself it doesn\u2019t work well…yet. For me the key is to practice explicitly with permission from others involved\u2013 in my experience people don\u2019t mind this and you won\u2019t make an idiot of yourself. When you get good at whatever, you forget you\u2019re even \u201cdoing\u201d something. If you\u2019re remembering and referring back to theory, you\u2019re still in the practice stage and I\u2019d say it\u2019s polite to put your learner plates on and let everyone know.<\/div>\n
Technique Head So What<\/span> \u2013Until you\u2019re so good you forget – ask permission – you\u2019re annoying.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Aboodi Shabi of Newfield for the quote.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cLearn all your theories and techniques as well as you can, and then be prepared to set them aside when you meet the miracle of the miracle of the living soul in front of you.\u201d \u2013 Carl Jung Most trainers annoy me. Consultants, coaches and therapists too. Their head\u2019s are full of techniques that confuse them and me. They can\u2019t just be and get on with it \u2013 life\u2019s too complicated and dynamic for silly models. I\u2019m often the worst culprit trying to think about NonViolent Communication, Integral theory, NLP and somatics at the same time while asking my housemate <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9xvDN-67","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}