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Creating change through deeper awareness

09/03/2025

Are you ready to deepen your Constructed Awareness® practice?
Level 2 Training begins in just one week.

For therapists who have completed Level 1, this is your opportunity to expand your skills, refine your orientation work, and bring an even greater depth of presence into your clinical practice.

Join us as we step further into the heart of CA where awareness, not willpower, opens the way to transformation.

Payment plans available. Register now at constructedawareness.com/trainings

08/29/2025

So often in therapy, and in life, we feel the pull to do something when someone is struggling. The urge to fill space, to offer solutions, or to make the pain go away can come from our own discomfort more than from what the other person truly needs.

In their conversation, Jandira Zaki and Tyler Orr bring this tension to light, showing how the shift from filling to holding creates room for something deeper. When we can stay present, nonviolent, and aware, what emerges belongs to the person themselves, not to our need to fix.

This is the heart of Constructed Awareness®. To practice curiosity, nonviolence, and presence, allowing awareness itself to be transformative.

Listen to the full conversation on the Constructed Awareness Podcast, and learn more at constructedawareness.com

08/27/2025

Fear and curiosity move in opposite directions. When fear takes over, the brain narrows into survival mode. But when curiosity arises, it displaces fear and opens space for new possibilities. In that openness, creative solutions emerge, and presence becomes possible.

This insight resonates deeply with Constructed Awareness®. Fear closes. Curiosity opens. And in that opening, transformation begins.

Where in your life could curiosity soften fear and create space for something new?

At Constructed Awareness®, we invite curiosity as the first step toward presence and transformation. Learn more at constructedawareness.com

08/25/2025

Dayhana Ray, LCMHC, reflects on a powerful shift in perspective. Realizing the therapist’s role is not to change the client, but to honor their expertise over their own lives.

This clip is a reminder that real healing starts when we let go of control and center the client’s experience.

Discover how CA honors the client’s wisdom and fosters real healing at constructedawareness.com

08/22/2025

“Learning about my sensation orientation and what that means for how I process information and experiences not only allowed me to put my internal experience into words but also to learn how to better communicate that experience to others. It allowed me to learn skills for expanding my window of tolerance and being present with distressing thoughts and sensations. The more I was able to sit with my own distress, the more I was able to create space and be fully present for my client’s distress.”

Gloria Cave MSW, LCSW, CCAC
SME Orientation Style

Discover your own Orientation Style and explore more about Constructed Awareness® at constructedawareness.com

08/20/2025

Leah Sampson, LCSW, shares a powerful lesson she wishes she had learned earlier in her career. That simply seeing, hearing, and caring for someone can create the foundation for safety, connection, and empowerment.

Watch as she reflects on how this insight, shaped by her experience with CA, can shift a client’s experience and open space for change, presence, or simply being.

Learn more about Constructed Awareness® and how it supports safety, connection, and presence at constructedawareness.com

08/18/2025

Are you actually choosing what you think and feel?

In this clip, Tyler challenges the myth that we control our emotions and explains why Constructed Awareness (CA) doesn’t try to change a client’s experience through willpower.

Emotions are automatic, like a zebra’s fear when it sees a lion. Trying to force change often makes things worse.

Instead, CA helps clients deepen awareness of their experience, even the hard parts, and trusts that change will follow.

For more on this awareness-centered approach to change, visit constructedawareness.com

08/15/2025

“Exploring emotions in terms of the three building blocks opens up a more dynamic and tangible way for clients to express what they’re experiencing, far beyond just labeling their emotions. It’s become a vital part of my rapport and connection with clients.”
Stephanie Levin
MA, LCMHC, CCAC
MSE Orientation Style

Discover your own Orientation Style and explore more about Constructed Awareness® at constructedawareness.com

08/13/2025

Phil Stillman shares how integrating the three building blocks of Constructed Awareness—thoughts, sensations, and external perception—has enhanced his DBT groups.

By framing mindfulness exercises through these domains, clients can discover what actually grounds them.

Learn more at constructedawareness.com

08/11/2025

Why is it important to notice sensations?

In this video, Tyler explains how Constructed Awareness helps lower the “sensation gate” so we can tune into what’s happening in our bodies sooner.

Without access to sensation, we miss key signals, like when a boundary is being crossed or what we actually want in a moment.

CA teaches us to connect with these cues before they become overwhelming, helping us navigate life with greater clarity and self-understanding.

Learn more at constructedawareness.com.

08/08/2025

Everyone orients their awareness in a unique way. In Constructed Awareness®, we explore three primary orientations: Mental, Sensation, and External.

This post highlights the External Orientation, where your environment is your primary mode of regulation and connection.

Which one feels most familiar to you?

To explore your own orientation style, take the Constructed Awareness Scale at constructedawareness.com

08/06/2025

Everyone orients their awareness in a unique way. In Constructed Awareness®, we explore three primary styles: Mental, Sensation, and External.

This post highlights the Sensation Orientation, where sensation is your primary mode of regulation and connection.

Which one feels most familiar to you?

To explore your own orientation style, take the Constructed Awareness Scale at constructedawareness.com

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