Phase One: Being-On-This (Past-Oriented Work)

In the first stage (Being-On-This), which works on the individual’s past like psychoanalysts, the goal is to understand and analyze the individual’s past, with the difference that I do this analysis in a systematic and step-by-step manner. This process works in the following pattern:

Fig.2. Hierarchy of Being-On-This

(Johari Fard, 2025)

This stage progresses through Body-Working, Emotion-Working, Cognition-Working, and Attention-Working.

• Body-Working: Engaging with the body consciously, maturely, responsibly, and creatively, including awareness, relaxation, and training.

• Emotion-Working: Emotion-building, or more precisely, conscious, mature, responsible, and creative work with emotion, has three technical parts:1. Release techniques, 2. Externalization techniques, 3. Framing techniques (Joharifard, 2024; 2025).

• perception-Working: Focused on correcting misperceptions, reconstructing narratives, and reframing experiences.

• Attention-Working: Cultivating directed, mindful, and intentional attention as the highest human capacity.