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I wish to thank the professors and students of Gdansk
University for inviting me to your beautiful city. I hope that you will find
this talk interesting, and that you will attend the demonstrations of systemic
coaching that I will present this evening.
Success in any field can be inhibited by behaviors and
symptoms generically called mental illness. These symptoms can affect people of
all ages, races, cultures and class. They range from acute, short-term distress
to chronic, long-term impairment.
Acute, short-term symptoms are often associated with
identifiable stressors. The most common symptoms result from physical stress,
such as dehydration, infection or exposure to poisons, toxins or stimulants.
Acute emotional stress may also result from overwork or a relationship change.
The symptoms of chronic stress may appear to be independent of
identifiable stressors. Although attributed to genetic factors or biochemical
imbalances, many symptoms of chronic mental illness appear to be closely
associated with a person’s relationships.
Most people can solve their problems, even severe problems,
without professional assistance. The steps by which most people naturally and
spontaneously solve relationship problems are the basis of our Systemic
Coaching.
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We offer an existential approach to
life and death, freedom and bondage, responsibility and consequences. We
coach people to search for sense of life and deal with senselessness by
exploring self-awareness as part of the totality of human existence. |
Our systemic coaching offers systemic diagnosis for
relationship behavior, and effective relationship solutions for many symptoms
diagnosed as mental illnesses. Our systemic diagnosis evaluates a person’s
history, behavior and subjective experience of time, emotions and relationships.
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Individual Systemic Coaching Flowchart ]
About Mental Illness
Biological perspectives of mental disease describe mental
illness as body processes, whereas psychological perspectives emphasize a
person’s history and environment. Some people appear to inherit a vulnerability
to mental illness.
People who are unable to care for themselves may require
institutional treatment. These people can be referred to appropriate health
professionals for evaluation, psychometric testing and treatment.
We acknowledge that both psychobiology and environment play
important roles. We perceive people as products of their genes, of their
families and of their cultures. Our personal histories shape the manifestation
of our genetic and biological factors.
A general coaching question is, "How do you want to make
sense of your life?"
[ Schizophrenia
] [ Depression ] [
Anxiety ] [ Bipolar
Disorder ]
Diagnosis of Mental Illness
Behaviors that violate societal rules are often perceived as
signs of mental illness. However, behavior considered deviant or sick in one
culture may be perceived as normal in another. Some states of consciousness that
may be diagnosed as mental illness in the West may be valued as essential human
experiences in Eastern cultures.
| Clarifying relationships with
people who have died is part of our systemic coaching. In the west, if
you talk to "dead people", you are crazy! In old Hawaii, if you don't
talk to dead people, you are crazy! |
At the end of a busy day - have you ever sat and gazed at a
wall mindlessly? I have, and probably you have too. It's a normal reaction to
stress. In addition, most people acknowledge periods when their ability to cope
was limited by an emotional stress reaction to overwork or a crisis. Life crises
are often associated with mental health symptoms in otherwise healthy people. We
coach people to resolve the crisis - and then the symptoms may "magically"
disappear.
What is the difference between normal and abnormal? The usual
answer is that a normal person copes with abnormal conditions in a timely
manner, whereas an abnormal person does not. A Soulwork perspective is that
“normality” exists on a hierarchy of actualization. What is normal in one
context is abnormal in another.
Many health professionals refer to the Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM IV) or the International
Classification of Diseases (ICD). Both the DSM and ICD define mental
illnesses by unique symptoms and characteristics. However, the described
symptoms often overlap, differ from person to person, and people may
simultaneously display more than one set of symptoms.
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We ask
people what they want; we help people define their goals (goalwork) and which,
if any, relationships may impede progress. We help people identify relevant life
challenges in an appropriate sequence for resolution. Then we coach people to
follow these steps in the sequence they chose.
We coach people to define healthy goals and to define the
relationship conditions that allow those goals to be accomplished. Often, mental and physical health problems seem to evaporate
during our coaching, without
specific intervention.
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[ Developmental
Disorders ] [ Personality Disorders ] [
Adjustment Disorders ]
We welcome friendly people who are motivated and
emotionally stable. Enhance your career with life relationship coaching skills.
Coach people to gain clarity, dissolve success and relationship issues. Coach people
to build success and quality relationships. Coach people to fulfill their dreams.
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