Jon Connelly > Quotes

“Not only are the professors not demonstrating how to do psychotherapy, they are not observing their students as they begin doing it. Instead of seeing what is being done, the student describes it to the supervisor in weekly supervision sessions. Their supervisors, who have never met the students’ clients, are attempting to improve the students’ work without ever having observed”
― Jon Connelly, Life Changing Conversations: A Single Conversation Can Be A Life-Changing Event

“Human beings are the only life forms that are pre-occupied. By pre-occupation, I am referring to anything that takes someone out of the present and decreases their power. Pre-occupations include guilt, shame, resentment, grief, anxiety, heartbreak, chronic pain, self-consciousness or worry. Conscious pre-occupation is a distraction and it drains energy from what there is to do in the present.”
― Jon Connelly, Life Changing Conversations: A Single Conversation Can Be A Life-Changing Event

“Jon is masterful at creating new meaning experiences using novelty, warmth, humor, playfulness, imagery, metaphor and movement.”
― Jon Connelly, Life Changing Conversations: A Single Conversation Can Be A Life-Changing Event

“Sometimes, people have experiences that leave a negative impression. It is often the meaning that the mind has attached to an experience that continues to have a troubling influence. Our human minds automatically attach meaning to things based on prior experiences. People don’t choose meanings. What something means is never the person’s fault, but psychotherapists offer blaming interpretations by saying things like, “You need to stop carrying that.”
― Jon Connelly, Life Changing Conversations: A Single Conversation Can Be A Life-Changing Event

“My passion is to fearlessly and creatively pursue what is in the client’s best interest and to make it possible for people to live happy and productive lives.”
― Jon Connelly, Life Changing Conversations: A Single Conversation Can Be A Life-Changing Event

“The ethics classes stress that the therapist should make sure not to greet people they have worked with in public in order to protect the secret that they have been seen. In doing this, the therapist is buying into the belief that it is shameful to seek assistance with psychological issues.”
― Jon Connelly, Life Changing Conversations: A Single Conversation Can Be A Life-Changing Event

“The belief that one should “do no harm” was coupled with the even stronger belief that one should avoid being sued. This concern causes therapists to approach the process of facilitating positive change to be diluted with fear and timidity.”
― Jon Connelly, Life Changing Conversations: A Single Conversation Can Be A Life-Changing Event