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“I wouldn’t give anything for the simplicity on this side of complexity. I’d give my life for the informed simplicity of the far side of complexity.” - Adam Robinson. Email me at jordanthecounselor@gmail.com
“I wouldn’t give anything for the simplicity on this side of complexity. I’d give my life for the informed simplicity of the far side of complexity.” - Adam Robinson. Email me at jordanthecounselor@gmail.com
Episodes

Wednesday Mar 18, 2020
EP 37: Corona, Social Distancing, and the Psychology of Disgust
Wednesday Mar 18, 2020
Wednesday Mar 18, 2020
"One can imagine how revulsion at the physical signs of suffering, of disease, might have had a benefit in reducing contagion, but it comes at the cost of reducing our capacity for empathy and compassion, which can be very useful in building community."
-Paul Ekman "Emotions Revealed"
Contact me at Jocrharris@gmail.com
P.S. If you enjoyed this check out my other short on John Gottman. He talks about sex and healthy relationships.

Thursday Feb 27, 2020
EP 36: Katy Wells on Curating The Art of Learning.
Thursday Feb 27, 2020
Thursday Feb 27, 2020
Not only is it okay to make mistakes or to fail at something, but it's good in a way. If your not, if your not making mistakes and you're not failing your not growing."
Contact me here: Jocrharris@gmail.com
Watch here on YouTube
Learn a more about Josh here Check out Josh's book here
Also, check out https://theartoflearningproject.org/
P.S. If you enjoyed this, make sure to check out this episode on How to Become a Supershrink. The two are thematically linked.

Thursday Jan 30, 2020
EP 35: Gottman on Affairs and Sex - A Review of What Makes Love Last
Thursday Jan 30, 2020
Thursday Jan 30, 2020
My research findings were not unique. The late sex therapist Bernie Zilbergeld studied 100 couples...to [his] surprise, his overwhelming finding was the unimportance of technique. What [mattered?] The sexually active partners had a closer friendship and were committed to making sex a priority.
-John Gottman "What Makes Love Last"
Contact me at Jocrharris@gmail.com
Check out more about Gottman's Affair Recovery Model here.
Watch on YouTube here.
P.S. If you enjoyed this check out my other review on what DOES make therapist better here.

Wednesday Jan 22, 2020
EP 34: A Critique of Esther Perel and other Charismatic Speakers - an ISP short
Wednesday Jan 22, 2020
Wednesday Jan 22, 2020
The Charismatic {Speakers}: This is the kind of person who spends all their time talking. Lecturing. Weaving shimmering webs of ideas into the air. They’re often quite eloquent and charismatic; listening to them can be great fun. Which is precisely the problem — because in the end, passively listening to someone talk is a really inefficient way to learn. We learn by doing, exploring, discovering for ourselves. By asking questions, interacting, engaging with ideas. (Another reason why Socratic method works so well.)
-Dan Coyle "A Field Guide to Avoiding Toxic Teachers/Coaches"
Contact me at Jocrharris@gmail.com
Check out what actually makes teachers good here.
Watch Perel's lecture HERE
P.S. If you enjoyed this check out my other review on what DOES make therapist better here.

Monday Jan 13, 2020
EP 33: Meet You in McGinnis Meadow - an ISP short
Monday Jan 13, 2020
Monday Jan 13, 2020
"Attunement and responsiveness are hot topics, and the subject of a fair bit of research, in psychotherapy. The former refers to a therapist’s ability to pick up on the nuances of interactions with clients...The latter concept, responsiveness, refers to doing the right thing at the right time, adjusting interventions on the fly to fit the unique and evolving circumstances of the client and therapeutic interactions"
-Scott Miller and Brooke Mathewes
Contact me at Jocrharris@gmail.com
Read the article Meet You in McGinnis Meadow HERE
Watch Monte Roberts HERE
Check out what Micheal Yapko learned from Elephant trainers HERE.
P.S. If you enjoyed this check out my interview with Scott Miller.

Wednesday Jan 08, 2020
EP 32: Mark Andreas on Taming Troubled Teens
Wednesday Jan 08, 2020
Wednesday Jan 08, 2020
Don't get into a power battle, but if you do get into a power battle get back out of it. What I realized is there's not a rule that says once you're in one you have to stay in it. A lot of people feel like once they start down that path they have to stick it out to the bitter end... and it turns out that's just not true.
Contact me here: Jocrharris@gmail.com
Watch on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/mI0cZlqQs-A
Find Mark online here: https://markandreas.com/
Sign up for Metaphors of Movement here.
P.S. If you enjoyed this episode, check out my conversation with Connirae Andreas. She's one of the pioneers in the field of NLP.

Saturday Dec 21, 2019
EP 31: Bil Lepp - a master class in storytelling
Saturday Dec 21, 2019
Saturday Dec 21, 2019
"The most important thing of any storytelling is you can't be the hero of your own stories. Nobody wants me to stand on stage for 30 minutes and talk about what a great person I am. So if anything heroic happens in my stories, generally I'm telling about someone else doing it or I'm watching someone else do the heroic act."
Contact me here: Jocrharris@gmail.com
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Find Bil online here:https://www.leppstorytelling.com/
Check out his YouTube page here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cOv2zJwKA0
P.S. If you enjoyed this episode, check out my conversation with Jeff Zeig. He talks about the connection between the arts and therapy

Monday Nov 18, 2019
BONUS: So you want to be a Supershrink?: the search for informed simplicity
Monday Nov 18, 2019
Monday Nov 18, 2019
About a month ago a friend and fellow therapist asked me to give a presentation to his chapter of GAMFT. At first I didn't know what to present on, then it dawned on me. Since day 1 I've been trying to follow in the footsteps of Milton Erickson. While my journey has been roundabout to say the least, what it's left me with is one question "how do you become a better therapist?" As I collected my thoughts I realized I had answered that question. I entitled the presentation So you want to be a Supershrink?: the search for informed simplicity. Suprsingly the answers to becoming better had nothing to do with what model you use or what theory you expose. So how do you do it? Listen and find out.
If you have any questions, or like this presentation brought to you, free to reach out: Jocrharris@gmail.com
Listen here on YouTube

Monday Oct 28, 2019
EP 29: Jesse Smith and Attachment Based Family Therapy for Suicidal Teens
Monday Oct 28, 2019
Monday Oct 28, 2019

"For me humility is super important. Humility, I think a lot of people think, means humbling yourself and bringing yourself down, But it's also about bringing yourself up. it's about right sizing where you fit."
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Contact Jesse at: jas945@drexel.edu
Learn about the ABFT here.
P.S. If you enjoyed this episode, check out my conversation with Debbie Pridemore. She's another attachment clinician.

Monday Oct 07, 2019
EP 28: Jeff Zeig and the Art of Therapeutic Communication
Monday Oct 07, 2019
Monday Oct 07, 2019

"It's a matter of utilizing, not analyzing, what the client is bringing to you, what exists in the total weave of the therapy situation, learning how to join into that moment rather than trying to instruct in some cognitive about how to get out of that situation."
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Learn More about Jeff here.
Learn about the Milton Erickson Foundation here.
P.S. If you enjoyed this episode, check out my conversation with Connirae Andreas. She also studied with Milton Erickson.
