Irvin Yalom is a venerable leader in our field, and an author whose prolific and authentic writing about the experience of being a relational psychotherapist has helped shape the clinical minds of thousands of young therapists. Open Letter to Educators Using Irvin Yalom’s “Love’s Executioner” As A Text in Counseling, Psychology, and Social Work Training Programs. (If you are a white person and you aren’t sure if saying anything at all right now is ok, check out last week’s sketchnote on Robin DiAngelo’s Article “Nothing to Add: A Challenge to White Silence in Racial Discussions” for some helpful points to consider). Willingness – even (especially) as people who may be “experts” in difficult conversations – to enter conversations brave enough to engage vulnerably even when we don’t know what to say can hold space for new levels of authenticity. Most of these pages reference chapters in Irvin Yalom’s canonical group therapy textbook, “The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy.”Īs you might guess from this rundown, I didn’t choose to publish this old set of notes randomly – these instructions for facilitating an effective psychotherapy group are reminders we can all use right now as we navigate brave conversations around what is happening in our country as important discussions are coming to head in regards to racist criminal justice systems, white privilege and fragility, and police brutality.īeing able to hear someone else’s “here and now reality” without interjecting our own commentary can help us be better listeners. In this selection of sketch notes (which it feels more accurate to call “doodle notes,” given my own style of visual note-taking), I summarized the high points of a few chapters from my group therapy class in graduate school. Since we know that information that is handwritten – and especially information that is drawn – is more easily remembered than information that is typed, being able to complete these sort of papers in the form of a sketch note facilitated my own learning and produced some pretty helpful resources that I’m able to share now.
Group therapy was one of several courses during my time at The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology in which I was permitted to turn in book report type papers in the form of sketch notes. In graduate school, I had the privilege of learning under instructors who were mostly very receptive to the idea that not all students take in, process, and organize newly learned information in the same way.
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