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The Room Technique on Paper

An imagination technique for flushing out your parts: put a person who triggers you into an imagined “room” — any room your parts want — step outside, and let whatever comes up come up, uncensored. Includes a quick intro plus two complete on-paper demos: Melissa follows rage and grief all the way back to their true source, and Joseph works with an agitated protector fiercely defending a bullied inner child.

Melissa SandfortMelissa Sandfort

4 chapters · 7 lessons · 2-year access

The Room Technique on Paper

$35.00 / one time · 2-year access

Course Details

The Room Technique is a simple imagination technique for UNBLENDING and EXTERNALIZING parts — especially the ones that come up around a person (or a barking dog, or anything!) that triggers you. 

The goal is not to stay calm and centered — that’s the most common misunderstanding of this exercise! The whole point is to flush out your parts: put the triggering person in an imagined room (a cage, a zoo, a bulletproof room — whatever kind of room your parts want), step outside, and let every part that comes up say what it needs to say, uncensored

This course includes a quick intro plus two complete on-paper demonstrations: 

  1. Melissa’s demo — rage and grief toward a triggering person turn out to trace back to their true, much older source, and the session ends in a Self-led boundary: she doesn’t get to hurt me anymore.

  2. Joseph’s demo — an agitated protector who wants to fight, the reasonable manager holding him back, and the bullied inner child they’re both protecting — all heard, and mediated into cooperation by Self.

You’ll learn how firefighters, managers, and exiles each show up around a trigger, and how uncensored truth-telling on paper — not suppression — brings clarity, relief, and real boundaries.

Course Content

4 chapters · 7 lessons

Quick Intro to the Room Technique

  1. videoQuick Intro to the Room Technique-- Video
  2. textQuick Intro to the Room Technique-- Summary

Melissa's Video Demo of the Room Technique

  1. videoMelissa's Video Demo of the Room Technique
  2. textMelissa's Video Demo of the Room Technique -- Summary & Takeaways

Joseph's Video Demo of the Room Technique

  1. videoJoseph's Video Demo of the Room Technique
  2. textJoseph's Video Demo of the Room Technique -- Summary & Takeaways

Next Steps

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