3.4 Territory–Specific Interventions

3.4 Territory–Specific Interventions Intervention Selection Principles

• Match intervention to client’s window of tolerance
• Consider their existing practice-framework
• Start with grounding before expanding
• Always titrate intensity Territory 1 Interventions ACT-Values Clarification:
• “What matters most deeply to you?”
• Use values card sort
• Explore gap between values and actions Mindfulness-Basic Anchoring:
• 5-4-3-2-1 sensory grounding
• Breath counting
• Walking meditation Parts Work–The Seeker:
• “What part of you is searching?”
• Dialogue with the restless part
• Explore what it’s protecting Territory 2 Interventions ** ACT-Defusion Techniques:**
• “I’m having the thought that I’m going crazy”
• Leaves on a stream for unusual perceptions
• Thank your mind for its concern Constellations–Energy Mapping:
• Use objects to represent new sensitivities
• Explore relationship between them
• Find right distance-position 3rd Wave CBT–Normalizing:
• Psychoeducation about consciousness states
• Validate without pathologizing
• Build distress tolerance Territory 3 Interventions IFS–Exile Work:
• Identify wounded young parts
• Unburden through witnessed experience
• Reparent with Self-energy Constellations–Family Patterns:
• Set up family system
• Identify entanglements
• Healing sentences and movements NLP–Timeline Therapy:
• Float above timeline
• Identify pattern origins
• Resource younger self Territory 4 Interventions ** Active Imagination:**
• Dialogue with vision figures
• Ask what they bring-need
• Establish ongoing relationship Somatic–Energy Practices:
• Gentle movement to integrate visions
• Breathwork for grounding
• Body scanning for messages Mindfulness–Open Monitoring:
• Witness visions without attachment
• Note arising and passing
• Rest in spacious awareness

Territory 5 Interventions Mindfulness–Formless Practices:

• Shikantaza (just sitting)
• Mahamudra pointing out
• Natural awareness ** ACT–Present Moment Contact:**
• Being with what is
• Dropping struggle
• Resting in experience Integration Practices:
• Art-music-movement
• Nature immersion
• Silence and stillness