INKOVEMA Podcast „Well through time“

#123 – free leg – supporting leg.

From security to uncertainty in counselling and back again.

In conversation with Rolf Balling

Well through time. The podcast about mediation, conflict coaching and organisational consulting.

Rolf BallingGraduate in business administration (University of Cologne) with a focus on social psychology, 7 years in management functions (marketing/controlling) at Alcatel-SEL AG, then 10 years as head of the management training and organisational development department, training in TA up to teaching transactional analyst in the field of organisation (12 years part-time), Training in group dynamics (2 years part-time), training in systemic counselling (7 years part-time), from 1990 to 2002 establishment of PROFESSIO GmbH, academy in the field of human resources, as teaching trainer and managing partner.

Contents:

People need security and yet live in a fundamentally insecure world. Even in a highly developed, scientifically sophisticated society that is insured down to the last detail and secured in everyday life, feelings of insecurity (fears) and thoughts of uncertainty (concerns!) are not uncommon. This is especially true in view of the disintegration of old certainties in our western world in the wake of BREXIT, TRUMP, CORONA and the RUSSIA WAR.

In the podcast, we look at everyday strategies and mental airbags for coping with all this – and remaining navigable even in conflict-laden situations.

Standing strategies

  • We think ahead and avoid situations that we perceive as potentially threatening. appear.
  • We actively utilise available security systems such as legal frameworks,
  • Insurance, labour contracts or healthcare systems.
  • We keep supplies and tools that are useful to us in the event of threats. could bel
  • We enter into contracts for mutual assistance in times of need.
  • We keep fit so that we can face life's threats powerfully and intelligently.
  • We attach ourselves emotionally to partners, friends, like-minded people, role models, nature and places in order to feel secure in a sense of connectedness.
  • We use psychotherapeutic methods to strengthen our adult ego.
  • We use experience, science and world narratives to construct a theory of what is happening in our environment. In this way, we achieve an "understanding" that enables us to take targeted action.
  • The experience of self-efficacy confirms that we are an active "player" with influence in the interactions of world events.
  • We transcend our world view in such a way that we can see ourselves as part of a whole that transcends our thinking.

Further reading:

  • Rolf Balling. From security to uncertainty and back again, in: Journal of Transactional Analysis, Volume 39, 2022, p. 212 ff.

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