Doubling - Giving Voice to the Inner Life

Clients bring a world of thoughts and feelings into the room with them. Only a fraction of those are explicitly expressed. When important thoughts and feelings aren't given an avenue for expression, they retreat into shadow and create the conditions for stuckness and anguish. What can therapists, coaches, and other helping professionals do to help their clients acknowledge and express more of themselves?

Doubling is a core psychodramtic technique that helps clients access unspoken feelings, impulses, and inner truths. When we double, we make a statement in a client's own voice, and then invite them to see whether it is something they want to say themselves, or alter to align with their truth. The result is a deeper empathic connection with your client for you and greater insight and freedom for them.

In this program you will:

• Learn what doubling is and how it can be applied

• See an in depth demonstration of doubling

• Practice doubling

• Discuss how you can use doubling in your role as a therapist, coach, or the like.

This program is one of a series of psychodrama programs that are designed to teach core psychodramatic skills from the ground up. They are focused on skills that can be used in 1:1 situations faced by therapists, coaches, and other professionals. The programs can be taken individually or as a series.

Each program includes:

• An introduction to the essentials of psychodrama

• Experiential practice with:

  • Warm-up and group building

  • Action structures -- including some exposure to role playing

  • A structured sharing process for grounding and integration.

• A demonstration of and practice with a specific psychodramatic skill