It is maintained by many advocates of experiential orientations in psychotherapy that you will not have lasting shifts in your perception of yourself and of the world with mere cognitive understanding of the problem or even of the solution. You need to experience it, feeling the shift happening inside you. That experientially felt movement has the power to bring about lasting change.
I have found it difficult to convey the therapeutic effects of group therapy in single conversations ABOUT group therapy. When the conversation shifts into a mode of feeling and experiencing it, it seems much more potent.
What do you think about it? Have you had experience with group therapy that relates to this differentiation between thinking about it (non-productively) and then feeling it experientially? I would love to hear about that!
Ildiko
