Their assumptions and attitudes guide their interventions with clients. Therapists have to be open to changing themselves, as they are involved with their clients. They come to see that they are responsible for their own existence and problems and these are not caused by external causes. They examine their values, beliefs and assumptions to determine their validity. The middle phase.
Clients examine their present value system.
They find the kind of life that they want to live and what gives their life meaning. They are encouraged to more fully examine the source and authority of their value system. Implementing their examined and internalized values in a concrete way. 77 Relate to the six propositions of existential therapy and the phases of therapy. Each group to pick a speaker and plan to report to the whole group.