Toolbox -Working with Individuals May 2022
The document is a training manual for Imago Professional Facilitators working with individual clients. It supplies a complete toolbox of structured interventions, scripts, and exercises designed to guide facilitators through the full therapeutic process, from the initial intake to termination. The manual begins with weekly sentence‑stem prompts for dyadic reflection, then explains techniques for deepening dialogue (open‑ended questions, mirroring, focusing, silence) and for “shallowing” when a client becomes emotionally overwhelmed (breathing, counting, grounding actions). It provides a detailed script for the first meeting, outlining how to establish safety, elicit the client’s present concern, map present and desired future states, explore associated emotions, and co‑create a working contract. Subsequent sections present concrete tools: Parent/Family Contract worksheets, the Defensive Reactivity/Conscious Response Circle (a step‑by‑step schema for recognizing triggers, fears, desires, and conscious responses), the “Stories We Live Within” narrative‑reframing exercise, and a session‑by‑session dialogue framework that uses mirroring, sentence stems, and summarising. Two goodbye processes are described – one for mourning past relationships and another for releasing old relational patterns – each with role‑play scripts and mirroring prompts. Additional modules cover non‑regressive childhood dialogue, the Lost Self Dialogue (both for facilitator trainees and for client use) to uncover childhood messages and develop new supportive messages, and an Imago Feedback Process for self‑reflection, peer feedback, and instructor feedback. Throughout, the manual emphasizes the facilitator’s stance (attunement, empathy, validation, external perspective) and provides concrete language (sentence stems, mirroring phrases, validation statements) to operationalise Imago theory in individual work.
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Weekly Sentence‑Stem Prompts for Dyadic Self‑Reflection
A series of structured prompts for each training week that guide participants to explore personal history, loss, childhood influences, cultural messages, intentions, and behavioral change.