From Office to Online: Navigating the Virtual Space with Fiona Sutherland & Julie Duffy Dillon

 
 

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notes from the conversation

Why seeing people virtually is not the same as in-person

How we can set things up in a way that both honours health and wellbeing, and client connectedness

Keeping the client in charge at all times

Remembering that this is still a relational space

What might come up for a client can they may or may not bring up with you

Feeling the step from live to virtual as a form of distancing and rejection - WE know this is not rejection or emotional distancing but if it is felt as such, needs to be dealt with as such….


What they might need

  • Set it up well from the start

  • Clear communication, not only focussing on “what has to happen” but also what your client needs from you whilst you are working virtually

  • Take the time to ask about THEIR experience of Gotmoving live to virtual - this matters

  • Center THEIR needs at all times, even when things come up for us (take it to supervision!!)

  • Reassurance whilst sitting with uncertainty

EMPHASIS POINTS

  • slow down

  • check in

  • redefine the process (eg. “progress”, “recovery” etc)



What might come up for US in this process?


  • Clients experiences of fear, distance might feel like rejection to us, they might cancel, reschedule

  • We’re feeling the distance and might over-compensate

  • It might remind us of distancing from our own history.

  • A “flattening” of the relation-ing

  • A feeling of “working” harder

  • Feelings of incompetence

 
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