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Jeffrey Zeig, PhD
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Resilience: Dictionary Definition
Resilience
Making the Moment Visually Alive
Resilience
Medical Dictionary re∙sil∙ience definition Pronunciation: /ri‐ˈzil‐yən(t)s/ Function: n 1 : the capability of a strained body to recover its size and shape after deformation caused especially by compressive stress 2 : an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change <EMOTIONAL< span>resilience resilience (rɪˈzɪlɪəns) — n 1. Also: resiliency the state or quality of being resilient 2. ecology the ability of an ecosystem to return to its original state after being disturbed 3. physics the amount of potential energy stored in an elastic material when deformed Resilience: Thesaurus
Main Entry: Bounce
• Definition: Spring • Synonyms: , bounciness, bound, , buoyancy, elasticity, flexibility, give, hop, recoil, resilience , springiness
Main Entry: Stamina: • Definition: strength, vigor
• Synonyms: energy, gutsiness, indefatigability, intestinal fortitude, power of endurance, resilience , resistance, starch, staying power, toleration, vitality, zip • Antonyms: Apathy, lack, laziness, weakness
Main Entry: Staying Power: • Definition: stamina • Synonyms: backbone*, endurance, fortitude, grit, guts*, gutsiness, heart, intestinal fortitude, legs, power of endurance, resilience , tolerance, vitality 1
Resilience: Thesaurus
Main Entry: Elasticity
• Definition: stretchiness • Synonyms: adaptability, adjustability, flexibility, fluidity, give, malleability, plasticity, pliancy, resilience , rubberiness, springiness, suppleness • Antonyms: rigidity
• Main Entry: Flexibility
• Definition: elasticity, adaptability • Synonyms: adjustability, affability, complaisance, , docility, extensibility, flaccidity, flexibleness, give, limberness, litheness, plasticity, pliability, pliancy, resilience , springiness, suppleness
Sculpting Exercise
Working from the “bottom up”. • Antonyms: constraint, inelasticity, inflexibility,
Sculpting Exercise I
• One person, the subject, sculpts himself into a posture (which can be kinetic) that represents either rigidity OR apathy OR fragility (chose one) , and silently finds a metaphoric title that represents that posture. The group must ask how specifically the person represents the title. • The group secretly meets and decides on a minimal behavioral change that would alter the somatic sensations, making them worse. Tell the subject to make that change. The subject then decides whether or not the alteration changes the title. The subject does not tell the group the title, but can say how the title changed. • If the suggestion does not change the concept, then the group has to ask for another small change that does change the word (which represents the person’s experiential reality). Sculpting Exercise II
• One person, the subject, sculpts himself into a posture (which can be kinetic) that represents a specific aspect of resilience:
bounce, staying power, flexibility, staying power, elasticity (chose one one) , and silently finds a metaphoric title that represents that posture. The group must ask how specifically the person represents the title. • The group secretly meets and decides on a minimal behavioral change that would alter the somatic sensations, making them better. Tell the subject to make that change. The subject then decides whether or not the alteration changes the title. The subject does not tell the group the title, but can say how the title changed. • If the suggestion does not change the concept, then the group has to ask for another small change that does change the word (which represents the person’s experiential reality).
Sculpting Exercise I‐A (Variations)
• One person, the subject, sculpts himself into a posture (which can be kinetic) that represents rigidity OR apathy OR fragility
(chose one) , and silently finds a metaphoric title that represents that posture. The group must ask how specifically the person represents the title. • The group secretly meets and decides on a minimal behavioral change that would alter the somatic sensations, making them worse. Tell the subject to make that change. The subject then decides whether or not the alteration changes the title. The subject does not tell the group the title, but can say how the title changed. • If the suggestion does not change the concept, then the group has to ask for another small change that does change the word (which represents the person’s experiential reality). Variation I: Have the person describe his reality in the sculpture. Have the person state the titles rather than keeping them silent. Variation II: Make an ironic change.
Sculpting Exercise II‐A (Variation)
• One person, the subject, sculpts himself into a posture (which can be kinetic) that represents a specific aspect of resilience:
bounce, staying power, flexibility, staying power, elasticity (chose one one) , and silently finds a metaphoric title that represents that posture. The group must ask how specifically the person represents the title. • The group secretly meets and decides on a minimal behavioral change that would alter the somatic sensations, making them better. Tell the subject to make that change. The subject then decides whether or not the alteration changes the title. The subject does not tell the group the title, but can say how the title changed. • If the suggestion does not change the concept, then the group has to ask for another small change that does change the word (which represents the person’s experiential reality).
• Variations I: Have the person describe his experience.
• Variation II: Have the person state the title openly
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Therapist Sculpting Exercise III
• Have someone act as the therapist and mirror your problem sculpture. Check with the subject to be sure that you are reasonably accurate. Describe your phenomenology and somatic sensations from the position of their sculpture.
• Variations: Make it worse; make it better. Describe the changes. State the title for the sculpture in each case. The subject can make a small positive or negative change in the therapist’s sculpture of his problem. Conduct the same process with solutions.
Depression—Sculpting Exercise III‐A (Variation)
Have the entire group mirror the problem or solution sculpture and have each describe his/her reality in the sculpture. Sculpting Exercise IV
Sculpting Exercise V
• Do the same exercise with a solution, e.g., happiness, enthusiasm, creativity, etc. Do two versions, one in which you increase it and one in which you decrease it.
• Have the patient use the entire group to construct a solution sculpture, each person representing a separate facet of the solution.
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Jeffrey K. Zeig, Ph.D. 2011
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• Set your posture in relationship to the group
• Change the group in relationship to the person
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