No conceptual psychotherapy techniques<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Most Western schools of psychotherapy are based on a conceptual theory and teach therapists to use conceptual methodologies and techniques.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lisa<\/a> (coaching chatbot) doesn\u2019t use any of these techniques as instruments on the user. This is also not done in the case of human-to-human AURELIS coaching. This is a reason for not calling it \u2018therapy\u2019 but \u2018coaching.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n AURELIS coaching techniques do exist.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n These are ways in which the human coach can attain more empathy and Compassion. The human coach is the instrument toward the client, inviting the latter toward self-Compassion. This is not pity. It is, indeed, meditation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lisa emulates a human coach when AURELIS techniques are used in Lisa-coaching. The aim of this is also meditative. No instruments are used toward the user. Here, too, Lisa is the only instrument.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This gives the user as a total person a high degree of freedom. Lisa explicitly takes care that this freedom doesn\u2019t turn into chaos \u2015 very important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meditation, making vertical contact<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Meditation is a fuzzy term with many different meanings. Probably the most consistent meaning \u2013 also as used in AURELIS \u2013 denotes a letting go of (the idea of) exclusively conceptual thinking. This feels like human depth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One may use the term this way for formal meditation on a cushion. For instance, Zen monks can spend many hours in such formal meditation during many days to attain \u2018enlightenment.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n Interesting as this may be, neither the intensity nor such intensive aim is necessary for an attitude to be called meditative. Common to both is the \u2018vertical contact,\u2019 the going to the subconceptual<\/a> level within oneself or in communication with others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n AurelisOnLine = meditative sessions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n All the (1200 freely available) sessions in AurelisOnLine<\/a> also have in common the autosuggestive, meditative invitation to temporarily let go of the strictly conceptual way of thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This way, they form a consistent integration with Lisa’s coaching. Lisa regularly refers to them and invites the user to use them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Autosuggestion, inviting this communication<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n