Naomi Feil

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Naomi Feil

• Validation Workshop

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Validation Principles

• Feeling, when validated, lose their strength
• When ignored, feeling gain strength
• Early, well established emotional memories stay

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Validation uses EmpathyWhat is NOT Empathy

• Sympathy
• Confrontation
• Diversion/Distraction/Redirection
• Insight-oriented therapy
• Reassurance
• Therapeutic lie
• Patronizing

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Verbal Validation Techniques

• Centering
• Rephrasing
• Polarity
• Preferred sense
• Reminiscing

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Humans have many level of awareness/consciousnes
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Non- Verbal Validation Techniques

• Centering
• Close genuine eye contact
• Taking emotional temperature
• Saying their emotion with same emotion
• Ambiguity
• Touch
• Relating movement to need
• Music
• Mirroring