Hello everyone. Tim Carey has agreed to answer questions relating to the Method of Levels (MOL). We are going to try to use this blog for that purpose. If you have a question for him, please post it as a comment and he will respond.
Thanks,
Fred Good
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
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Wow! A chance to ask Tim Carey questions. Ok, here goes.... Hello Dr. Carey. I learned about PCT and MOL a few years ago and have applied the concepts to my daily life (work and home). Recently (last 4 months), I've been counceling friends (just 2 thus far) using MOL. I keep the sessions to one hour long...give or take a few minutes.
By doing that, am I getting in the way?
Hi Jason,
Nice hearing from you. Thanks for the question. It's great to hear that you're trying out MOL. The issue of session length is an interesting one. There's absolutely no reason why a session should be an hour (or 1/2 an hour, or 47 minutes or any other specified length). Often in work settings it's necessary to put a time limit around appointments for scheduling and organisational purposes. In Scotland my appointments were 30 minutes and over here they're 60 minutes. With the 30 minute appointments we would sometimes finish earlier than that and sometimes go longer (if there were no appointments after the one I was in I would go longer if I thought it was useful). The same thing happens with the 60 minute appointments. I don't really see the setting of appointment times as getting in the way but it's a good question to think about. The whole point of MOL is to help people shift their awareness up. How far up you go probably depends on the time you have and the mobility of the person's awareness. People are different. For some people a time constraint may be a little stifling and for others it might provide useful structure. I remember once trying out some different ways of working in Scotland and I booked out some extended time slots. With a couple of patients I just saw them until we both thought we should end with no preconceived notion of how long that would take. The sessions ended up beign 1.5 to 2 hours long but they were the only sessions we had. In your situation it might be interesting to experiment a little. Try some sessions without the hour long limit and see what happens. Maybe at the beginning discuss with the other person that you'll go for as long as they are finding it helpful. You might go logner than an hour and you might go shorter. Whne you do set the hour time limit, ask the other person at the end of it what they thought about how it ended. The issue of "are you getting in the way" can really only be answered by the client anyway (because they're the ones you're getting in the way of!) so those answers might be really helpful for improving your practice.
I hope that answer has been of some help and isn't too long winded!
Warm regards,
Tim
Tim,
Thanks for the response, and no, it was not long winded. I really appreciate you taking the time to respond and I also appreciate that someone is managing a blog like this one.
I do MOL sessions for people because it fits the picture in my mind of the kind of person I want to be: a helpful person. While I am "leading" an MOL session, I am controling for "being helpful." And, so, my questions stem from that reference perception.
I'm a little concerned that stopping the MOL process would hurt in some way.
Is there a point during the process where I would NOT want to stop?
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