{"id":5995,"date":"2014-05-07T15:47:06","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T22:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philborges.com\/blog\/?p=5995"},"modified":"2014-09-24T10:24:15","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T17:24:15","slug":"interview-with-mary-olson-open-dialogue-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philborges.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/07\/interview-with-mary-olson-open-dialogue-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Mary Olson: Open Dialogue in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"docs-internal-guid-81c3d48b-d8da-a325-3f98-c94f19054e08\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"lead\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dialogicpractice.net\/team-profiles\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mary Olson, Ph.D.<\/a> is a family therapist and the founding Director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dialogicpractice.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Institute for Dialogic Practice<\/a> in Massachusetts. As a Senior Fulbright Scholar she traveled to Finland in 2001 she discovered Open Dialogue, <!--more-->practiced by the mental health team at Keropudas Hospital in Tornio, Finland. \u00a0Mary is currently collaborating with founder, Jaakko Seikkula, to bring Open Dialogue to the US.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/94463261?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">We met Dr. Olson at her office in East Hampton, Massachusetts. She let us know that one of the most important skills needed when working with someone who is experiencing an extreme state is to \u201cdrop the clinical gaze\u201d. She mentions that it is key to build a relationship with the affected individual and not to be looking for a diagnosis. \u00a0As Dr. Olson said it\u2019s a sense of \u2018with-ness\u2019 rather than \u2018about-ness\u2019\u2013 of being with rather than doing to that is so powerfully effective.<\/p>\n<p>I left her interview thinking that these high-touch \/ low-tech solutions are the tools we have left behind as we have become more and more mesmerized by the brilliance of our technological wizardry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Olson, Ph.D. is a family therapist and the founding Director of the Institute for Dialogic Practice in Massachusetts. 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