Introduction - Background to the book; concerning language and its use; the five premises of this book; the five voices; the impact on human conversation; personal and impersonal implications [the axis of communication]. Section 1 - The countdown to what is a person, life cycles and the five phases, the four axis of communication, the development of language from birth. Section 2 - Problem talk; the problems for each identity, the specific problem of addiction as example, the five element expression of the energy that empowers the five voices. Section 3 - Seeing through; explaining, theory; psycho-logic, the ritual of the healing conversation, the narrative process, story as therapeutic tool. Section 4 - The language of going beyond, existentialism, memory and self becoming, discovering self in community; meditational attitude in counselling - use of poetic style, crisis and choice making, feelings, priority circles, intuition, unknowable reality. Section 5 - the deliberative assembly, a basis for the holistic healing conversation, the five identities, identity as relationship, five ways of learning and corresponding states of consciousness, language and change, communication and the art of embroidery; summary of the holistic approach.weiterlesen