TECHTALK #9:
"NORMAL" SESSION PATTERN

This article outlines some of my "normal" expectations for the pattern of a "typical" session. Your mileage may vary. Mine certainly does!


    >>>> GETTING GOING <<<<

I like to have three hours free for both of us to do the session without interruptions, phones, appointments, or other distractions. The client's life is not in danger while he's in session, and a distraction will not "ruin his case", but it's an annoyance and WILL distract him from handling his case. I like to keep very focussed.

Usually, sessions last around an hour and a half, more or less. Under an hour is "short." Over two hours is "long." Rarely, they go much longer. I don't like to have the pressure of "only 25 more minutes left" on the client. Sometimes it can't be helped. Some auditing is better than no auditing.

I don't assess for food and sleep and drugs and all of that stuff and tell him if he's sessionable or not. If the client says he is ready for a session . . . well, he showed up and he's talking already, so he must BE in session. If he just had two beers and smoked a joint . . . clearly he's Very Sessionable.

If he's doing speed or some other deadly white powder, I won't be auditing him. I'm more likely to move and change my phone to an unlisted number. Those people's cases are a secondary minor problem. Biological suicide, usually accompanied by criminal violence, is their current case action, and you can't do anything relevant for them while they are snorting or popping.

I *ALWAYS* HAVE A COPY [OR TWO] OF THE UNIVERSAL SCALES CHART IN SESSION.

I don't yell "THIS IS THE SESSION!" or "END OF SESSION!" at them. I'm not DOING IT *TO* THEM. It's a cooperative action. WE do it together. The session starts when we agree it does, and start handling his case. The session ends when we agree to stop, and cease handling his case. There isn't any force involved. I'm not slamming him into incidents, and then yanking him back into present time to push him out the door.

Usually I start off with "Tell me about your universe." or some other open general question, just to put the ball in their court and let them start talking. You could probably say "What's Up," "Give me a hint," or "Ready, Set, Talk" and get much the same effect.

Sometimes even that isn't necessary, as they have plenty to say and just start talking. Usually they want to tell me what has happened since their last session, what is happening in their universe, etc: a kind of news update, progresss report, and case assessment rolled into one. In effect, it usually functions as a pretty good description of a "place."

When they're done with that itsa, report, update, or whatever, I go right into "Compare that place to where you are now," and we are off and running. If he responds "Hey, I just told you all about that!" I say "Fine, tell me a place you MIGHT BE," and we keep right on running.

It's not a rigid, tightly defined, exacting process with narrow safety margins. If I forget and ask him two "have been" questions in a row, he may very well not even notice. If he does, and protests that I just asked him THAT question . . . "Thank you," I ask him the OTHER question. It doesn't take an L1Crap, L4Breck, GF40r-not, or CS53rrrxyz to figure out what is going on . . . or what to do about it.

So the client looks at a past place, and compares it to where he is now. Then a future [possibility] place, and compares it to where he is now. Then a past place, and compares. Back and forth.

One thing you will soon notice is that "where he is now" might not be right "here" in session with the auditor where YOU would expect him to be. You may be sitting on the beach in Hawaii auditing, but "where he is now" is his job and family in NYC, the BIG PROBLEM with his favorite team, or the book he is writing . . . or whatever. Wherever he says he is . . . HE IS. There are NO WRONG ANSWERS.


    >>>> GOING CRAZY . . . INTROVERSION <<<<

As he compares places, a piece of his case is going to move in on him. A piece of what he doesn't like and isn't in control of is going to show up and take him [and you] for a ride. What that will be, I have no clue. It depends on him, his tone level, his fixed ideas, the kinds of dramatizations he is stuck in, how he reacts to you, how his girlfriend or boyfriend treated him last nite, a song he heard on the radio this morning . . . and who knows what else.

He may be morose and despondent and not want to talk. He may go unconscious. He may become ragingly angry. He may try to control you by being critical, or whimping and whining. This dramatization, insanity, somatic, mass, introversion, or whatever you call it, is coming from the places [in his mind] he is contacting. It is your job to help him get OUT of them by keeping him comparing them to where he is now, thus making the associations or identifications conscious, rather than unconscious, and thereby dissolving them.

The "trick," difficulty, or pitfall in auditing lies in the fact that the "stuff" you are turning in is, by definition, NOT SANE, so it is not generally going to be aligned with and further or promote the auditing process and the mutuals goals of the client and coach. The "stuff" you turn on is going to distract, impede, obscure, oppose, confuse, prevent, sidetrack, or otherwise interfere with the client looking, seeing, and getting saner. It's been running the client and his life [with undesireable results], and now it's going to try to run the auditor and the session.

So the process gets hard to do if it works too well. If the client gets a LITTLE whacko in session, and SEES that HE is a little whacko [sad, angry, confused, whatever] and can still tell that the wierdness is coming from the places [in his mind] that he's looking at, he's EASY to handle, because there's still plenty of HIM left over that SEES you are helping him through the upset. You need to turn on his "stuff" hard enough that he can SEE IT . . . but not so hard that he CAN'T SEE AT ALL.

If the process turns on his case TOO HARD [i.e, ALL his screws came loose at once and he's suddenly a raving nut and that fact is way too obvious to ignore], then he becomes difficult to handle because he loses the separation between himself and the incidents, and THE SESSION AND THE AUDITOR BECOME PART OF THE PLACE OR INCIDENT. Instead of VIEWING his case, he BECOMES his case, and it, of course, sees the auditor/coach and the session as the EVIL ENEMY in one way or another.

This is displayed at different intensities for different clients, and it's manifestations are constantly changing with the tone level or awareness of the client, but that tension is always there in every session. Sometimes it is so slight and under the surface that you never even notice it, because the client really IS on top of things. Sometimes it becomes so overwhelmingly powerful that the auditor can barely keep track of who is the client and who is the coach and whose case is running what show into which black pit of miasmatic mire.

For example, instead of telling you ABOUT places where he was insanely angry, he may BECOME insanely angry with YOU and start telling you that you're a stupid idiot who can't audit at all and you are ruining his case, bla, bla, bla. Most clients at some point get incredbly whiney and sincerely try to convince you that there are NO MORE ANSWERS to the question, NOT EVEN ONE TINY LITTLE ONE, and they have told you EVERYTHING, ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING, and THEY WILL *DIE* FOR SURE if you *TORTURE* them with that *EVIL* question even ONE more time. [Gee! Did you ever feel like that before?]

The auditor's constant challenge is to keep track of what is REALLY happening, and not get himself lost in the client's wierdness. Sometimes it's so incredibly easy, you don't even think about it. Sometimes it's so amazingly difficult, it taxes ALL of your sanity and ALL of your resources to deal with it and get the client and yourself through it without falling off the deep end into the putrid swamp of mental muck.

The most difficult situation to handle is when the client manages to convince you that YOU and the PROCESS and the SESSION are the things that are crazy, and you need to change what you are doing because you are ruining his life with your pernicious interference. Of course, not buying into this is the key. Sometimes that's easier said than done. The guy who said insanity was not creative was truly out of the loop.

When the client gets obviously bonkers, instead of thinking "Oh god, I've fucked up totally," you should realize that you are doing it perfectly, it's working exactly like it's supposed to, and you just need to separate the session a little bit from the case or place. If he's talking about you, or the session, or the questions, then you just need to get him looking at himself, his case, or the places again.

If he's raging up a storm about what an incompetent schmuck you are and how he'd shoot you dead right now to put you out of your misery as a big favor to you and mankind in general if you hadn't been too much of a sniveling and useless coward to let him bring his .45 into session, you need to ask him some simple little question that gets him to look at HIMSELF, NOT YOU.

YOU are NOT his problem, it's HIM and HIS CASE. His attention on YOU won't do HIM [or you] ANY GOOD AT ALL. You have to put his attention back on him, where it belongs.

"Tell me what's happening with you right now." or "How are you feeling?" or anything like that should get you an "I'm mad at hell . . . because you are screwing me over big time, you lousy piece of shit!" or something on that order. But at least he's made some kind of a statement ABOUT HIMSELF.

Now you can come back with "Did you ever feel like that before?" or "Where else did you feel that way" or "Who else made you feel that way?" or anything like that. You just want to find out WHERE this is coming from so you can compare it to [separate it from] where he is now.

If he comes back with a generality like "Whenever some stupid idiot like you treats me like trash and lies to me" you just pin him down to ANY PARTICULAR. Any question like "Who did that?", "When was that?", or "Tell me about one example." should do the trick.

Once he gives you ANY incident, example or place that is NOT the current session, then you can instantly go to "Compare that place to where you are now." That should separate the session from his case, calm him down, and get him back to working WITH you, rather than attacking you as part of his case.

If he still wants to make you part of the incident, and gives you another generality like "It's all the same" you can pin him down with "tell me some similarities AND SOME DIFFERENCES", or even "tell me a similarity" and then "tell me a difference". [I've never actually pushed it that far.]

That's a VERY EXTREME example of what can go [right] with a session. Usually the client remains conscious that you are there to help them and will cooperate. However, if he goes a little over the edge, no harm done, you just reach over and pull him back with your simple little questions.

If he does get a extreme, and you get rattled and confused or aren't sure what to do, and he manages to plunge you into your own black pits right there in the session, sure, you can screw up and lose control of the session at that point. No great harm done if you do, he will just leave mad, and you might be all bent out of shape too.

If so, it's clearly NOT like he hasn't ever done that before . . . he probably started auditing in the first place to try to control his nasty raging temper, that bent everybody he knew out of shape. So the worst that can happen is you turn on his case hard and can't turn it off and he manages to get your case turned on too. He might go away mad and never come back and tell people for years and years how you totally ruined his life. I guess he was really sane before you messed him up? Not likely! You just need to get a session to clean up your upset and confusion about what you were trying to do versus what actually happened, etc.

You didn't create his case. You didn't do him any actual damage, though he may try to convince you that his imminent suicide will be on your conscience for the rest of your life. And of course, after he calms down a bit and stops screaming, you could take him back into session and he could tell you about how horrible he felt in your awful session, and you could go right into "Compare that place [session, etc.] to where you are now," and repair the bad session and some of his case at the same time.

The crazier people are, the harder they are to audit, because the nuttier things they do in the session. A client who is above death is vastly easier to audit. He may well have a good session even if you are halfway asleep and thinking about dinner tonite. However, he's not totally sane either, and he may also be pitching you wierd curves here and there. A maniacal -30 is always a terror to audit and requires constant vigilance and attention, is very easy to make a "mistake" on, and capitalizes on every real or imagined "error" for his own extremely wierd agenda.

The rough rule of thumb is that they are no saner in session than they are in life.

If everything about their life is a mess and they fight with everyone they know and people all hate them . . . good luck! They will fight with you every inch of the way up tone, and don't be surprised if they blame you for everything that happened to them 10 years before they ever heard your name, and sue you for malpractice.

If everyone who knows them loves them and tells you how sane they are and what a privilege it is to be associated with them in any way, your cosmic good karma has come home to roost in the promised land and laid you a golden egg.

In any case, the more auditing they get, the saner they are and the more they understand how the process works and will cooperate with it and you. Thankfully, not everyone is a psychotic raving violent homicial misanthrope, but you should be aware of the wide range of possiblities, and the few essential basic simple actions you must take to take to handle problems if they come up.


    >>>> GOING SANE . . . EXTROVERSION AGAIN <<<<

It CAN BE a GREAT BLESSING when the case moves into the sessions themselves and HOW they run so strongly that it CAN'T BE IGNORED. If the auditing sessions themselves are looking like your life, you are running fine. If you can SEE that is true, you're tracking your case perfectly.

I was cranking slowly but steadily up through the effort band toward death in my UCP co-audit. Over a few sessions, I started to feel like I was bogged down, not making progress, treading water in the same place, looking at the same kinds of situations over and over again . . . with no resolution . . . STUCK!

Wrong process?

Bad C/S?

Screwed up auditor?

Overrun?

Correction List Emergency?

NO!

NO!

NO!

NO!

NO!

The process was REALLY BITING, and was reflecting EXACTLY what was happening ALL OVER MY LIFE. If I had been too far down to show up for session, of course it wouldn't have worked. But I stayed in sessions and eventually I saw HOW I FELT ABOUT THE SESSIONS THEMSELVES, and I was able to articulate that to the auditor, who had his sneaky little "Gee! Ever felt like that before?" question all sharpened up for me.

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!!!! YES !!!!

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!!!! DOWN AT THE IMPLANT STATION !!!!

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I've had a LOT of Dianetics and run a LOT of whole track and run LOTS of OT3 and had correction lists done by master meter-maids direct from flag who found implants in restimulation, and did all the "right" processes and f/n'd everything and I had *BIG WINS* on those actions. But after all that was said and done, I was STILL *LIVING* DOWN AT THE IMPLANT STATION.

That discovery launched me into a series of UCP sessions where I closely examined the implant stations, design, sequence of rewards and punishments, various theories and styles of implanting, how to tell when the implant is successfully completed, my contributions to the theory and practice of implanting, implant civilizations, how those implant civilizations are dramatized here on earth, my history with those current civilizations, my analysis of the overall effects of implanting, bla, bla, bla. I tore it apart one tiny little piece at a time, until I felt that I thoroughly understood it.

AND I GOT MYSELF OUT OF THE IMPLANT STATION.

AND THAT TURNED ME AROUND THE CORNER AND GOT MY CASE UP TO ZERO, FOR THE FIRST TIME.

AND I DON'T KNOW *ANY OTHER* PROCESS THAT COULD HAVE DONE IT FOR ME BUT UCP.

[Hey! I spent years and years doing all those OTHER processes, just like all the high and mighty out of valence schmuckety-schmuck Flag-Trained AO C/S's ordered, and I DIDN'T EVEN GET CLOSE!]

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Sometimes there is a very clear thread of relevance that runs through all the places examined in a session, and I can see "what this is all about" during most of the session. Very often, that does NOT happen.

Sometimes I will be an hour or more into the session and the client is rambling on and on through a bunch of unconnected places that have NOTHING in common and isn't getting anywhere and nothing is making any sense at all and I can't see ANY PROGRESS or possible resolution.

At these times I find myself thinking that UCP is a steaming pile of bullshit and a stupid unworkable crackpot process, and eventually the client is going to realize this too and tell me what a brain-dead fuck I am for wasting his valuable time on all this nonsense, and I'm so embarrassed for myself I want to crawl in a hole and hide.

Those may be the client's thoughts, the auditor's thoughts, or both.
It may not be important whose thoughts they are.

But I don't usually have the courage to open my mouth and tell him this is all a waste of time and we'd better pitch it in now before we get him and his case even farther afield. So I just keep asking for places and having him compare them to where he is now.

And lo and behold, 40 minutes later, or whenever, he is suddenly talking AGAIN about the FIRST place or places that he looked at in the session, and I can see that he has come FULL CIRCLE, and that these WERE ALL THE SAME PLACE IN HIS MIND [as disconnected as they SEEMED at first], and there WAS a common thread running through ALL of them, and he NEEDED to look at *ALL* those places in order to take them apart . . . like snapping a pearl necklace that is choking him. And he is putting all of that together and telling me *ALL ABOUT IT*.

And then, of course, I think what a brilliant and perceptive auditor I am :)


    >>>> GIFT WRAPPING IT ALL UP <<<<

After the client has looked at some places, pulled in some mass or problem, introverted into it, examined it, seen something about it he didn't know before, and then extroverted from it, [telling me about it], he will often ASK ME what I think about all that.

He has gone from present time, into his case, and back into present time. He has come uptone on this subject, so now he has a viewpoint of his own, which he has just shared with me, and he is LOOKING FOR MORE VIEWPOINTS.

Naturally, I give him my viewpoint. Note carefully that this is NOT evaluation. I don't tell him WHAT to think. I tell him "I think . . . " or "It reminds me of . . ." I ONLY do this when he is extroverted at the END of the session. If he doesn't ask me, sometimes I will ASK HIM if I could make some comments on the session. IF he says yes, I will. This is called . . . [are you ready?] . . . TWO WAY communication.

This is also a VERY USEFUL time in the session to have the client look at the UNIVERSAL SCALES CHART to *SEE* WHERE what he has been looking at in the session falls on the chart, and any progress he is making. This is part of the extroversion phase and is ENORMOUSLY VALUABLE for making the right indications to the client and helping him SEE more clearly.

When he has done enough sessions that he KNOWS where his attention HAS BEEN, and SEES that it is also slowly but surely COMING UP by running UCP, that gives him tremendous POWER over his case, because he can logically and sanely predict his future tone level. This is NOT to be underestimated as a powerful and successful action.

I DON'T run the session to "F/N, cog, and VGI's" and then end it. That's nonsense. The needle floats on arc breaks and hallucinations. [I don't use a meter anyway.] Cognition can easily be hysterical dub-in. Very Good Indicators can be just glee. WE end the session when WE agree it's over. If I think maybe it's time to end the session, I tell the client "I think maybe it's time to end the session," and I ask him what he thinks.

Sometimes he will say "Yes, I'm done for today." Sometimes he will say "I feel pretty good, but I think there is some more to look at and we should run some more places." Sometimes he will say, "I feel really good about it and I don't want to look at any new places, but I need some more time to put it all together for myself." Sometimes he will say "I think there is a lot more to go but it's already been a long session and I feel OK and maybe this is a good spot to end it for today and we'll look at it more next session". WE end when WE have agreed to end. Until then, WE are still discussing it.

I've had some extraordinary sessions where the client came in all fired up about something and started talking and looking and comparing and looking and comparing and explaining and saw everything and figured it all out and told me unequivocally how it worked and that it was all handled and looked right at me with perfect presence and indicated to me that the session was *OVER* . . . and it was plainly obvious to me that it WAS . . . and all I had to do was look, listen, and applaud telepathically . . . and I never said a word.

At times like that, I think I'm ESPECIALLY clever.

WHY MISS OUT?
DO UCP & SEE!

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