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Is TIR therapy?
TIR maybe considered to be a therapeutic Intervention, whereas we prefer people
consider it as a form of education. To emphasise this point, practitioners of TIR and Applied-Metapsychology are called facilitators, and the work is called facilitation. The client is called a viewer, since it is the process of inspecting his/her mental world, guided by the facilitator that brings about the beneficial effects of the work.
We use the term "facilitator" rather than "counsellor" or "therapist", because:
- Counseling, i.e, giving advice or offering interpretations, is not what a facilitator of TIR does.
- The term "therapy" suggests that something is done by a therapist to a patient to cure the patients illness.
The concept of therapy has evolved to mean more of a working partnership between therapist and client, but the term can still carry a medical connotation.
" ..The teacher does not try to put data into students but instead seeks to draw out of them knowledge that they already possess but have not yet been able to access or integrate.." Socrates
We employ these similar methods, and that is why we refer to this work as viewing, a form of "integrative learning". The viewer is not acquiring new data but is integrating data he/she already has.