Abstract:

Introduction: 7C's is a framework to develop out of a 25 years professional existence within the NLP community. It is a pluralist modality incorporating perspectives from Ontology, Phenomenology, Constructivism, Cognitivism, Behaviorism and many more. The 7C's Framework believes the best evidence for the validity of its approach is the lived lives of clients and trainees. Taking an Action Research approach, 7C’s recognizes the utility of embedding more quantitative methods to discover what works in its research design, however, is in itself more skewed towards an inductive ideographic methodology.

Objectives: The purpose of this paper is to build upon a previous article, published in "Journal of Experiential Psychotherapy", and to explore specifically how a therapist using the 7C’s approach would operate. This is in contrast with the previous paper which described how 7C’s had developed from within the NLP community. The intention is to begin to build a theory of 7C’s with reference to the psychological literature.

Methods: With the use of a single case study, the author describes a new framework and method for working therapeutically, which has emerged from his 25 years practice as a psychologist specializing in psychotherapy. In this paper he provides a broad step by step guide and rationale for working with clients.

Results: The results of this case study were positive and supported by appropriate psychometrics. The process shows how the client’s previous existence was explored, marking out key areas of work in bold which emphasized the inductive nature of 7C’s and the discovery and creation of new resources, known within 7C’s as "Super-Heroes".

Conclusions: This case history represents just one way of working within the 7C’s Frame. However, it also signposts the importance of recognizing context and the inductive creation of "Super-Heroes" to generate authentic resources to deal with the problems within each context as a general process common to all 7C’s work.