definitions and techniques
Solution Projection, SP (Lösungsaufstellung, LA): Consists mainly of the following representative tools:
1) Focus: the representative of the client, who is sometimes – usually at the end of a projection, when a solution has been found - replaced with the client himself in order to let the client feel the energetic-emotional difference to his current system.
2) Goal: the client’s wish or desire; the change that the client wants to happen in his system.
3) Exceptions from the rule (sometimes also dramatic events): singular memories of events or a time when the problem that is desired to be resolved was not a problem, but the system worked as it should have respectively as the client would have liked it to work.
4) Miracle: that has to happen in order to change the system to reach the goal.
5) Context of the miracle: everything that is important to make the miracle happen. Equals the systemic concluding question.
Application:
1) focus > miracle: temporary physical experience of a working system; sensation of how the system would feel, the client himself would feel, if balanced.
2) focus > goal: clearification of the path that has to be taken to change the current system.
Goal Projection, GP (Zieländerungsaufstellung, ZA): basically identical with the Solution Projection, but adding a timeline to observe the goal closer.
Solution Geometric Interview, SI (Lösungsgeometrisches Interview, LI): a technique which is applied e.g. on teams that have a conflict. A miracle is induced, and then the representatives are interviews on the perceived sensational change compared to the situation prior to the miracle. Note: there is not a singular but a plural focus (the team), that is several foci (the team members).
SP, GP and SI are techniques that have been developed in the style of Steve de Shazer’s miracle projection.
Layer Projection, LP (Schichtaufstellung, SA): the host decides to only throw light on special layers of a complex system to gradually resolve a problem layer after layer, with the option to represent the whole system in the end. This technique is also useful if many characters are needed, but only a few representatives are available.
Problem Projection, PP (Problemaufstellung, PA): technique that uses obstacles, negative characters like wrath or vanity, as tools that are intended to be converted into positive resources during a projection to help to reach the client’s goal.
Tetralemma Projection, TP (Tetralemma Aufstellung, TA): abstract technique that only uses three or four characters: the one, the other, both, none of both. This form is especially useful in cases of indecision or difficult choices.
Faith Polarity Projection, FP (Glaubenspolaritaetenaufstellung, GA): a technique that places singular parts of the client’s faith structure in the picture to analyze the client’s relation to the single factors; e.g. love, structure, enlightenment. The focus is guided through the picture and is asked to articulate the difference in his perception when coming closer and leaving again the single dogma-areas. Alternatively a free element is used to indicate its point of closest connection, e.g. wisdom.
Host: systemic analyst who facilitates the projection and guides the process of resolving the client’s questions.
Client: the person that asks the host to let a projection happen; Euphemism for patient (in a broad, psychological sense).
Barometer: non-personal representative who indicates differences in energy levels that seem appropriate for the respective projection.
Personal Dogma (Glaubenssatz): abbreaviated and condensed message of one’s believes that is sometimes even unconsciously repeated in one’s mind, e.g. “money is dirty”, “only blood sweat work is real work”, etc.
Systemic Concluding Question: After the host has listened to the client’s elaborations and suggested the characters of the projection, he asks the clients a concluding question to sort of seal off the system. This question can be formulated as such: “Is there anything else that you think we should to make your miracle happen?”
To talk in the off: the host/facilitator changes from the projection guidance to a meta-level at which the projection is analyzed for the participants. This only happens if a projection is conducted for teaching purposes. To indicate the return to the original projection guidance level, the host simply says “I am back” and continues to guide the projection.
Cataleptic hand: from classic greek: katalepsia; medicial term: mental or nervous condition inducing partial or overall physical stiffness, sometimes similar to rigor mortis. In systemic analysis the cataleptic hand is used as a tool to remove the source of the focus’ incapability to concentrate on his desired goal or wish – usually if he stares somewhere on the floor. In other words, a kind of psychological rigor mortis is resolved by inducing awareness of something that the client was not aware – usually an event or person from the past that he mistook for his goal.
Representation-Return-Ritual: to be applied whenever one had an unpleasant interaction in the “real world”, e.g. a therapist called you a megalomaniac although he should not judge in the first place, and had no indication for such a judgment in the second place.
How is the RRR to be applied?
1) If the is the questioned relationship is to be continued: > The representative of the person who gave the client a negative emotion gives an apology.
2) If the relationship is to be cut lastingly: > a cushion of pillow representing the negative emotion is symbolically returned by the client to the representative of the negative emotion’s emitter.
Systemic Principles:
1. Non-Ignorance (Nichtleugnung):
Is everybody who is part of the system included?
2. Right of Participation (Recht auf Zugehoerigkeit):
concerns all system-elements
e.g. a man moves from Tyrol to Vienna to live with his partner and her children;
he feels a permanent restlessness and unhappiness and asks for a systemic analysis.
It turns out that he left his 12 year old son from first marriage with his mother in Tyrol.
3. Acceptance of Priority:
a. growth orientated systems: growth within an organism
positions of sandwich children: triangle children tend to be
- team workers
- very creative
- often over exerted
b. reproductive systems: creation of a new organism
positions:
- man usually right
- women left
because external representation always on the right side.
c. pure participation systems
4. Better Performance and Competences
5. Systemic Principles of Balance:
- more balance in good terms
- less balance in bad terms
- exact check and balances are separating
- the debtee has the right to remind
- the debitor is guilty if he denies the right to remind
Language:
Personal pronouns always refer to the sex of the representative, also if the represented system involves abstract and asexual characters.
1) Focus: the representative of the client, who is sometimes – usually at the end of a projection, when a solution has been found - replaced with the client himself in order to let the client feel the energetic-emotional difference to his current system.
2) Goal: the client’s wish or desire; the change that the client wants to happen in his system.
3) Exceptions from the rule (sometimes also dramatic events): singular memories of events or a time when the problem that is desired to be resolved was not a problem, but the system worked as it should have respectively as the client would have liked it to work.
4) Miracle: that has to happen in order to change the system to reach the goal.
5) Context of the miracle: everything that is important to make the miracle happen. Equals the systemic concluding question.
Application:
1) focus > miracle: temporary physical experience of a working system; sensation of how the system would feel, the client himself would feel, if balanced.
2) focus > goal: clearification of the path that has to be taken to change the current system.
Goal Projection, GP (Zieländerungsaufstellung, ZA): basically identical with the Solution Projection, but adding a timeline to observe the goal closer.
Solution Geometric Interview, SI (Lösungsgeometrisches Interview, LI): a technique which is applied e.g. on teams that have a conflict. A miracle is induced, and then the representatives are interviews on the perceived sensational change compared to the situation prior to the miracle. Note: there is not a singular but a plural focus (the team), that is several foci (the team members).
SP, GP and SI are techniques that have been developed in the style of Steve de Shazer’s miracle projection.
Layer Projection, LP (Schichtaufstellung, SA): the host decides to only throw light on special layers of a complex system to gradually resolve a problem layer after layer, with the option to represent the whole system in the end. This technique is also useful if many characters are needed, but only a few representatives are available.
Problem Projection, PP (Problemaufstellung, PA): technique that uses obstacles, negative characters like wrath or vanity, as tools that are intended to be converted into positive resources during a projection to help to reach the client’s goal.
Tetralemma Projection, TP (Tetralemma Aufstellung, TA): abstract technique that only uses three or four characters: the one, the other, both, none of both. This form is especially useful in cases of indecision or difficult choices.
Faith Polarity Projection, FP (Glaubenspolaritaetenaufstellung, GA): a technique that places singular parts of the client’s faith structure in the picture to analyze the client’s relation to the single factors; e.g. love, structure, enlightenment. The focus is guided through the picture and is asked to articulate the difference in his perception when coming closer and leaving again the single dogma-areas. Alternatively a free element is used to indicate its point of closest connection, e.g. wisdom.
Host: systemic analyst who facilitates the projection and guides the process of resolving the client’s questions.
Client: the person that asks the host to let a projection happen; Euphemism for patient (in a broad, psychological sense).
Barometer: non-personal representative who indicates differences in energy levels that seem appropriate for the respective projection.
Personal Dogma (Glaubenssatz): abbreaviated and condensed message of one’s believes that is sometimes even unconsciously repeated in one’s mind, e.g. “money is dirty”, “only blood sweat work is real work”, etc.
Systemic Concluding Question: After the host has listened to the client’s elaborations and suggested the characters of the projection, he asks the clients a concluding question to sort of seal off the system. This question can be formulated as such: “Is there anything else that you think we should to make your miracle happen?”
To talk in the off: the host/facilitator changes from the projection guidance to a meta-level at which the projection is analyzed for the participants. This only happens if a projection is conducted for teaching purposes. To indicate the return to the original projection guidance level, the host simply says “I am back” and continues to guide the projection.
Cataleptic hand: from classic greek: katalepsia; medicial term: mental or nervous condition inducing partial or overall physical stiffness, sometimes similar to rigor mortis. In systemic analysis the cataleptic hand is used as a tool to remove the source of the focus’ incapability to concentrate on his desired goal or wish – usually if he stares somewhere on the floor. In other words, a kind of psychological rigor mortis is resolved by inducing awareness of something that the client was not aware – usually an event or person from the past that he mistook for his goal.
Representation-Return-Ritual: to be applied whenever one had an unpleasant interaction in the “real world”, e.g. a therapist called you a megalomaniac although he should not judge in the first place, and had no indication for such a judgment in the second place.
How is the RRR to be applied?
1) If the is the questioned relationship is to be continued: > The representative of the person who gave the client a negative emotion gives an apology.
2) If the relationship is to be cut lastingly: > a cushion of pillow representing the negative emotion is symbolically returned by the client to the representative of the negative emotion’s emitter.
Systemic Principles:
1. Non-Ignorance (Nichtleugnung):
Is everybody who is part of the system included?
2. Right of Participation (Recht auf Zugehoerigkeit):
concerns all system-elements
e.g. a man moves from Tyrol to Vienna to live with his partner and her children;
he feels a permanent restlessness and unhappiness and asks for a systemic analysis.
It turns out that he left his 12 year old son from first marriage with his mother in Tyrol.
3. Acceptance of Priority:
a. growth orientated systems: growth within an organism
positions of sandwich children: triangle children tend to be
- team workers
- very creative
- often over exerted
b. reproductive systems: creation of a new organism
positions:
- man usually right
- women left
because external representation always on the right side.
c. pure participation systems
4. Better Performance and Competences
5. Systemic Principles of Balance:
- more balance in good terms
- less balance in bad terms
- exact check and balances are separating
- the debtee has the right to remind
- the debitor is guilty if he denies the right to remind
Language:
Personal pronouns always refer to the sex of the representative, also if the represented system involves abstract and asexual characters.