Now I See A Person Institute Podcast

Creating safe conversational space for everyone to be heard.

How safe conversational spaces lead to wellness. In journeys to wellness, it is important rather than calling it mental health challenges, we create a space where the person's voice is heard and how their voice is prominent. As Harlene Andersen says it is about being a conversational artist. We consider how we hold these conversational spaces as sacred. 

It is dark inside a box.

We reflect on a person we are in conversation with. This person's powerful expression on mental health services goes as follows:
"People who received diagnoses shouldn't let themselves get discouraged because the mind is so much bigger than the categories and our mind and our experience are so much bigger than those made to put us in a box. It's dark inside this box."

Revisiting the past and seeing people through their authentic lens

Our clients are usually given a diagnosis before coming to NISAPI. Diagnoses unfortunately can paint an alternative identity of deficiency, self-doubt, and of being incurable. It can leave the trauma and person hidden in the picture of treatment. Revisiting the past and seeing people through their authentic lens. Also, revisiting the work of Harry Goolishian. Please see www.nowiseeaperson.com 

Celebrating Tom Andersen

This week's podcast will reflect my mentor Tom Anderson. Tom was a Norwegian psychiatrist, Professor of Social Psychiatry at the Institute of Community Medicine, University of Tromsø, Norway, and he is recognized worldwide.  

Horse Ranch to Home Ground: Healing Families Via Telehealth

Just sharing our ideas and experience of those of our clients who thrived during the pandemic and beyond. Please see our blog on Mad In America https://www.madinamerica.com/2022/05/horse-ranch-home-ground-healing-families-via-telehealth/ or visit our website www.nowiseeaperson.com for further information. 

International Certificate Collaborative Dialogic Practices (ICCP)

Now I See A Person Institute offers a certificate program in International Collaborative Practices sponsored by the Houston Galveston Institute and Taos Institute (please check the ICCP link to view two programs in the United States and programs globally-Europe, Northern Europe, Central Europe, Czech Republic, Asia, South America, & Central America), a certificate program in CEACRM, and a hosting program for learners to spend weeks or months through the Taos Institute.

Community of Support

As part of our ongoing qualitative research at Now I See A Person Institute we interviewed two more families this week. One of the themes they both talked about was the community of support and the power of relationships that helped their healing process as a family.

’Extraordinarily normal’

It is in our title and our signs and business cards - Now I See A Person. That is what we do we see you as a person and not as a diagnosis that may have defined you or limited you in the past. We genuinely care and genuinely have hope that everyone can heal. There is the genuine therapeutic moment when the client and their family no longer see deficiencies and we know they are on the road to 'extraordinarily normal'. 

Process Ethics

An introduction and reflection of thoughts on process ethics is designed with the goal of constructing and assessing alternative ideas of ethics in therapy. Please go to our website www.nowiseeaperson.com where our intent is to explore how traditional content ethics in therapy can be honored but also supplemented to allow process ethics to flow from the partnership of client and therapist. 

NISAPI:Healing with Horses

Now I See A Person: Healing with Horses Underserved Populations from Trauma