Consider

Have they sought medical help, and has there been a thorough investigation?

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UTS

Currently, in their daily life, are they experiencing engaging with UTS (Unconditioned Threat Stimuli)?

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​Use the principles as checklists and the ‘V Scales for Sorting’ as you ask yourself questions about their presenting issues.

Use your Havening checklists (EMLI, ELFS, and the V Scales for Sorting) as you begin to ask yourself questions about their presenting issues.

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• What connections, associations, patterns or similarities do you notice in the information?

• What knowledge and frames do they have to understand their experience?

• How much of the time are they using their sympathetic and parasympathetic system? Use the V Scale for Sorting and make a mental note of whether they are pessimistic or optimistic about different topics (cues).

• What activates (cues) their survival system?

• What are they affirming most often? And is this helpful or unhelpful?

• What CASEs do they experience often? How often they are making adrenaline and cortisol, or habitually cortisol and oxytocin, or DOSE?

• Which element of CASE do they access easily? Is it Cognitive, visual or auditory, narrative (dramatic arcing), or abstract? Is it reflective or imaginative? Do they pay attention to their Autonomic system? Do they notice Somatosensory information such as chronic pain or sensations of pleasure or discomfort? What metaphors do they use to describe their somatic experiences? Or do they name emotions and focus on those ideas? Or do they communicate their CASE using emotions (signalling calm, signalling disgust, fear, anger, or signally safe, social, happy, contented, etc.)? Are they often unwell (immune system of CASE)?

• Do they fear any elements of cases they experience? Such as unwanted images (flashbacks), unwanted internal dialogue (intrusive thoughts), unable to access images and fear ‘black’ or ‘fog’. These are all Cognitive of CASE. Or are they fearful of a quickening heart rate, feeling slow and heavy, wanting to leave or not go somewhere, feeling unable to move, or being fast to rage? Does chronic pain or other sensations like creeping skin, itches, blushing, sweating, black dog, heavy cloud, or knife in back worry them? Do emotional responses concern them? Are their emotional experiences actually autonomic and somatic experiences? (Once they understand Autonomic and Somatosensory, will their perception change?

• How do they currently sculpt their brain? How do they care for themselves (sleep, nourishment, exercise, enjoying life)?

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EMLI

• Are they recalling an event or multiple events, or is there no recalling (Event of EMLI)? Do they fear recalling or imagining?

• Are they expressing about experiencing feeling alone, isolated, unloved, misunderstood, ‘different’, ‘weird’ or left out? (Meaning [abandonment] of EMLI)

• Have they lost something valuable to them? Or do they fear losing something? (Meaning [loss] of EMLI).

• What is their landscape like at this time? Use the V Scale for Sorting and make a mental note of what they find Risky (Landscape of EMLI).

• Are they experiencing a sense of being trapped, stuck or blocked? (Inescapable of EMLI).

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ELFS

• Are they recalling an event or multiple events, or is there no recalling (Event of ELFS)? Do they relish recalling and imagining?

• What is their landscape like at this time? Use the V Scale for Sorting and make a mental note of what they perceive as Rewarding. (Landscape of ELFS).

• Are they expressing about experiencing feeling free to make choices shape themselves (Freedom [sense of] of ELFS)?

• Do they feel comfortable in their own skin, able to express themselves, and feel fine with taking up 'room' (Safety [sense of] of ELFS)?