Models that inform SAI: Helping Skills

Helping Relationships
•Self perceptions
•Perceptions of others
•Intra personal awareness, acceptance
•Inter personal behavior
•Communication skills

Characteristics of a Helping Relationship
Self-perceptions
Perceptions of the other
Intrapersonal behaviors
Interpersonal behaviors
Being fully aware
Possessing high positive regard for the other
Practicing no external evaluation of the other
Considering the other a person in the process of becoming rather than being bound by the past Accepting the full range of one’s own experiences and emotions
Communicating congruently to the full extent of your awareness
Receiving the other as he or she is
Extending warmth, caring, liking, interest, and respect
Entering fully into the world of his or her feelings and meanings and seeing them as he or she does
Acting with sufficient sensitivity so client feels trust

Communication Skills: listening, paraphrasing, reflecting, focusing, structuring, confronting, interpreting, summarizing, intentionality, empathy, reframing

The expression of three key uses of self is modeled in "Non violent communication" (NVC). The attributes and process of NVC can contribute to SAi also. The basics are:
1.Feel 2.Need 3.Request