Page 10 - Bounce - TIRW Pre-workshop Guide 2

Everyone of us suffers from unhappiness at one time or another.
Unhappiness can be viewed as the state of having one or more unwanted and unresolved conditions in our lives and environments. Such condition maybe:
Depression
Fear of Men or Women
Terror of Open Spaces
The presence of a car driven through the wall of your living room!
An Inability to Love
Broadly speaking, a facilitator is best described as a helper who wants to bring change to distressing aspects of someone's mental or physical environment. In order to handle a crashed car in one's physical environment, one would need several sorts of "facilitators" - A mechanic, an insurance adjuster, perhaps a paramedic, a tow truck operator... I am sure you can think of some more.
As a TIR facilitator, you regard the contents of peoples' minds - fears, joys, memories of traumatic incidents, etc. - as a part of their mental environment, just as a table is part of their physical environment. In Applied-Metapsychology, the mind is defined, not as the persons identity, but simply as that part of a persons environment that is private, the aspect that others cannot perceive, or have direct access to.