{"id":1968,"date":"2014-04-08T08:02:19","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T08:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unk.com\/blog\/?p=1968"},"modified":"2024-02-23T11:19:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T17:19:35","slug":"miracle-question-examples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unk.com\/blog\/miracle-question-examples\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Miracle Question Examples to Use With Your Therapy Clients"},"content":{"rendered":"

Imagine that tonight as you sleep a miracle occurs in your life. A magical momentous happening that has completely solved this problem and perhaps rippled out to cover and infinitely improve other areas of your life too… <\/i><\/p>\n

Think for a moment and tell me… how is life going to be different now? Describe it in detail.<\/i><\/p>\n

What’s the first thing you’ll notice as you wake up in the morning?<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The miracle question, created by Steve de Shazer one of the pioneers of solution-focused therapy in 1988, is a great ‘thought experiment’ and a creative way to devise good\u00a0therapeutic goals.<\/a><\/p>\n

The miracle question basically asks people to make believe, however fantastical it may be in their particular circumstances, that their life\u00a0has already dramatically changed for the better<\/i>.<\/p>\n

So instead of focusing exclusively on how insoluble their problem is, and how difficult life is because of it, it switches attention to what will happen\u00a0after\u00a0<\/i>the problem is dealt with – focusing on the desired future rather than the undesired present. One of the pillars of solution focused therapy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It jumps right over the mechanics of how, exactly, the problem will be solved into the mechanics of how will they live when it\u00a0is\u00a0<\/i>solved.<\/p>\n

It’s a neat and rather fun way of bypassing rigid constraints, black and white thinking, and unshakeable beliefs<\/a> that “things can’t possibly change!”<\/p>\n

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