Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) or “Unblocking”
What is “Unblocking?” Pretty much everyone has a drawer or a box where, over years or even decades, they’ve tossed technology cables, cords and adapters, thinking that they would be useful and needed. You’ve probably got one at home. If you’re like me, when you need something, you open the drawer and find it a hopeless morass of tangled, useless junk. Then you close it, go to the store and buy the cable you need. It may have been in the drawer, but it was just too daunting, depressing and confusing to go there.
In our lives, we often have people, places or things that have become tangled and confusing. We know there is something useful in the relationship, situation or circumstance, but it’s become a daunting, depressing, confusing place to go.
Unblocking is an orderly process, where we commit the time to empty the drawer, separate and untangle the various cables, roll them up, sort through them, discard those that are definitely useless, and put to use those that are. Only we do this with the people, places or things that have become chaotic in that corner of our psyche where we toss such things.
What are you looking for?
- Relief from emotional pain?
- Healing from grief or trauma?
- Stronger self esteem?
- Richer, more satisfying relationships?
- A more fulfilling career?
- Increased productivity and effectiveness in life?
- Personal growth?
- More self-confidence?
Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) and Unblocking techniques and programs, present a new paradigm of safety and effectiveness for the helping professions, and for those seeking such help.
What is “viewing”?
Viewing is an essentially educational activity in which you, the viewer (the client), inspect aspects of your life. This work is considered educational in nature because the knowledge, realizations and insights come from you, from the inside, rather than being judged for you, or given to you from outside yourself. Your job in a viewing session is the most important one, because only you know your own mental and emotional world. This is person-centered work.
Your partner in this process is me, your Facilitator
To assist you to look at troublesome areas of your life, a Facilitator uses:
- A structured form of communication
- A person-centered method; you are the expert on your experience
- Rules built on a paradigm that establishes safety and confidentiality
- Tested, proven techniques
What is a “Facilitator”?
A Facilitator is defined as: a person who uses the process of viewing to help you to perform the actions of viewing to achieve insights and reach your goals. A Facilitator’s function is to help you view your world and thereby to alleviate the emotional charge contained therein.
The term Facilitator is used rather than “therapist” or “counselor” because these terms imply that something is done by one person to another, which is not the case in viewing. Also, because of the educational nature of the subject, not all Facilitators are licensed therapists or counselors.
What is an “end point”?
WAn end point is the point at which a specific viewing activity has been successfully completed. In the person-centered context of this work, your satisfaction and sense of resolution and completeness determine when an end point has been reached, rather than ending according to an arbitrary pre-set time limitation.
An end point occurs when you are satisfied that the area, incident or issue being addressed is complete. One area of life might produce many end points before complete resolution, but each aspect that is addressed, each technique used to address it, goes to its own smaller end point, until the whole area is complete to your satisfaction.
The end point of any activity always includes an improvement in emotional state and an unsticking of attention, bringing one more fully into the present, and often includes a realization and/or new viewpoint on the area being addressed.
This is the point at which a successful viewing session is finished and formally ended. This unique protocol sets TIR and related techniques apart from other methodologies, and is a key component in its effectiveness and success.
It is important for you as a viewer to be aware of this and to schedule sufficient time for your sessions to be taken to an end point. One and half to two hours is about average, though the sessions can be much longer or shorter than that. After you have some experience, you and your facilitator will often have a better idea of what is a normal session length for you. Session length also depends upon the severity or complexity of what is being addressed.
As you work through one area or aspect of life at a time, you will find that areas that seemed troublesome can resolve and things that were painful to think about have had the pain melt away. Life begins to seem more fun, more of an interesting challenge.
Once you reach the point where the effects of past events are resolved and nothing is troubling you much anymore, you can move on to work aimed at personal growth, self realization, and ability enhancement.