Develop the Preferred Story/Solution

PACO 500

Discussion Thread: Develop the Preferred Story/Solution

After reviewing the readings and other course content, imagine moving your predetermined care seeker (i.e., Crossroads’ Care-seekers: Bruce, Joshua, Brody, Justin, or Melissa) through Phase Two.

NOTE: These discussions require that you draw upon ALL required course resources to substantively develop each phase in our Solution-based, Short-term, Pastoral Counseling process. Use the following headings to organize your post.

• Rapport and Relational Alignment. Consider the progress your care seeker has made from Phase One. Briefly discuss how you will continue to build rapport in Phase Two. Describe how you will shift your relational style to best align with the care seeker’s style (i.e., use DISC language) and current behavioral position (i.e., attending, blaming, or willing). Discuss how you would respond if you learned that your care seeker’s style is different than you predicted in Phase One.
• Phase Two Distinctive Features. Narrate the movement of the care seeker through Phase Two’s distinctive features (i.e., purpose, goal, chief aim, role/responsibility, and the use of guiding assumptions). Apply pertinent insights and techniques from the required course resources.
• Supportive Feedback Break. Describe the Supportive Feeback Break. What portrait, definition(s), key thought(s), or assessment insight from the Quick Reference Guide might be utilized in the supportive feedback technique?
• Phase Two Marker. Describe a marker that indicates you have collaborated well and are ready to move into Phase Three.
• Food for Thought. Based on the “Analysis Grid for Guiding Biblical Counseling and Spiritual Formation,” describe the importance of using a structured approach.