A short monologue by David Jones in which he reflects on clinical practice and transformational change. He emphasizes creating a clinical context where the clinician does not come with fixed answers but instead trusts a dialogue with the patient to reveal solutions, positioning himself as witness rather than sole authority.
What I have found is the most. The most important thing when I see transformational change in my patients is that I have the faith to create a context where I don't have the answer. Where I walk into a room and I just simply let the answer emerge. Because I come with a lot of information, I come with a lot of knowledge. I have a certain architecture I use for sorting that. But to actually go into a room and create a context where something happens between it emerges from us just talking and listening, where I'm not the answer man, where I let that one go and have the faith that something will emerge that will change my life while it's changing their life. That's the hardest thing for me because my training is that the buck stops here. That I have to somehow play 62 card pickup until I pick up the right card. And that's going to be. I'm a good doctor if I figure out which card it is. And it's not like that. It actually. The big things where the walls fall down and something magical happens is where I'm just there. I just have to be a witness of what's happening and to have the faith that that will happen and not get into that thing where my reputation. I don't want to be embarrassed all those things, but I just simply say together we're going to find an answer. And I may have some of that. I know that you're probably the one that's going to come up with an answer and we're just going to have a dialogue here until we figure this out and then something happens.
