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To plan, or not to plan?

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If I were to ask you ‘what type of person are you’? What would your answer be?

Are you a planner?

Or, do you just ‘hope for the best’, with no real plan in mind?

I guess I used to be a planner, but I’ve moved a little away from that in more recent years and I’m now more of a ‘suck it and see’ kind of person, with a healthy mix of planning. This move away from rigid planning has actually served me well, as a hypnotherapist. I wonder why that would be…and which is the best way?

The case for planning:

  • Planning in the form of scripts, can be a valuable learning tool, when used with flexibility i.e fit the tool to the client, not the client to the tool.
  • It can allow the inexperienced therapist some reassurance.
  • It can stop you going off on a tangent, if you have a tendency to so that.
  • Planning can help you reach your goals.
  • It can help you allocate resources e.g a budget.

The case for NOT planning:

  • It is too restrictive to plan rigidly before a client’s visit.
  • It is more time consuming to plan exhaustively before a client arrives, especially since you’re unlikely to use the material anyway.
  • Working ‘in the moment’ usually yields the best results.

Did you notice something interesting there? Did you notice that planning has its place; sometimes it is a weakness and sometimes it is a positive?

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