The Support Relationship
Documents by W.David Hoisington, Ph.D.
Introduction: The Support Relationship
Chapter 1: Model of Mind
Chapter 2: Model of Change
The healing relationship helps to facilitate the direct experience of shifting from suffering into well being. The support relationship is one entered
for the purpose of supporting the individual on their personal of returning to this experience of well being, of understanding the process and
then to recreate it on their own without the teacher/guide. It is proposed that the nature of the support relationships which we create for others
depends on our relationship stance - meaning how we stand in the helping relationship with another. It is also proposed that this relationship
stance is connected to our Model of Mind, our Model of Change and our overall ideas about a professional helping relationship.
Please be aware that this is an older document, and it needs to be updated. It is kept available to the public because the overall conceptions are
important to consider.
Chapter 3: Model of Relationship
This chapter never was written because examination of the how people think about a compassionate helping relationship led to the Theory of
Compassion Development. This theory suggests that there exists a wide range of experiences that can define “helping support”? Fitting
compassion into the picture led to the Theory of Compassion Development and this led to writing the Mystic Relationship
Chapter 4: Training Skilled Support Help
Chapter 5: Research and Future Considerations
This chapter was to examine all the literature on human service support relationships, and combine that information with the information
presented on the nature of the triarchic helping relationship theory.
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Seeking the Soul of Life
A quest of compassion and finding our “true self”
in the midst of a hectic world
