Entering Inner Images by Eva Madelung Barbara Innecken

Author:Eva Madelung, Barbara Innecken
Language: deu
Format: epub
Publisher: Carl-Auer Verlag
Published: 2018-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

RE-I MPRINTING

Re-Imprinting and Changing the View of Past Trauma

The NIG element of re-imprinting is concerned with traumatic experience in the past, as opposed to the life path exercise, where the primary focus is on the search for resources. In addition, this exercise represents an interface between family constellations and NLP. The book NLP und das Familien-Stellen [NLP and Family Constellations] (Stresius, Castella, u. Grochowiak 2001) describes this interface and its therapeutic applications.

Imprinting means leaving a mark, an indelible influence. Re-imprinting, an NLP procedure developed by Robert Dilts (Dilts, Halbom a. Smith 1990), is essentially a procedure for making a new mark, a new impression. Using re-imprinting, beliefs formed by traumatic experiences in the past are re-worked to become congruent with the current, different situation. This new impression allows for an altered view of the past, present, and future. As opposed to Dilt’s version, the NIG version of re-imprinting is more systemically orientated and has been modified by the introduction of the figure of the “old person”.

Leaving the present problem and the image of a good solution, the client looks for an experience that seems to be a source of the current problem. She goes back to the relationship system of that time, and tries to look at the situation from the viewpoint of the imprinting person, that is, the person centrally involved in the traumatic experience. She begins to experience her own positive intentions as well as the positive intentions of the imprinting person in the past, and begins to alter her viewpoint. In this way, old beliefs can be dissolved and new beliefs developed that are more appropriate to the current situation. She is supported in this by the neutral observer (meta-position) standing outside the events, and the mature, wise, old person that she will someday become. The insights gained in this process are then used in the search for solutions in the future.

Re-Imprinting is not only useful for working through traumatic memories from childhood; it can also provide access to systemic connections. For example, an interrupted reaching-out movement of a child may have been caused by the child’s long stay in hospital, but also by her mother’s inner withdrawal, which in turn was perhaps caused perhaps by her early loss of her own mother. If, based on information from the interview, the therapist sees indications of such possible entanglements in connection with the problem, systemic orientated re-imprinting is the tool of choice. If a family constellation in a group seems more appropriate for the client, re-imprinting can be used either as preparation for the constellation or as a follow-up method afterwards.

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