<p>Free Attention is being present for your <a href="client"><strong>Client </strong></a>in a non-judgemental way, witnessing them with a warm heart while keeping eye contact on offer all the time.</p><p>Caril Rogers of Person Centred Counselling calls this <strong>Unconditional positive regard</strong>'. The attention for the client is as free as possible from internal chatter and external distractions. It implies also awareness of those inner states that signal that one gets a bit carried away with the material the Client is working on. This type of distraction is called <strong>Restimulation</strong>.</p><p>In a <a href="free-attention"><strong>Free attention Contract</strong></a> the counsellor supports the client with nothing else than his Free Attention presence.</p> <hr />

A co-operative inquiry into Co-Counselling as a personal Development Method

Summary

The work has three objectives.  The first is to evaluate co-counselling using an experiential research model known as co-operative inquiry.  The second is to reflect on the research process itself, and to look at the ways we think about knowledge and construct patterns of meaning.  The third is to place the enterprise in the context of fundamental beliefs about health and health development.  The study as a whole is therefore a personal document rather than a collective one: it is not a report from the inquiry group on its findings.