文档介绍：“在场”的力量力量场
I was recently reminded of this belief when I and several other Red Cross volunteers met a group of 1)evacuees from 2)Hurricane Katrina. We were there, as mental health professionals, to offer “psychological first aid.” Despite all the training in how to “3)debrief,” to educate about 4)stress reactions, and to 5)screen for those needing therapy, I was struck again by the simple healing power of presence. Even as we walked in the gate to the shelter, we were greeted with an 6)ardent burst of gratitude from the first person we encountered. I felt appreciated, but vaguely guilty, because I hadn’t really done anything is a noun, not a verb; it is a state of being, not doing. States of being are not highly valued in a culture which places a high priority on doing. Yet, true presence, or “being with” another person, carries with it a silent power―to bear witness to a passage, to help carry an emotional burden, or to begin a healing process. In it, there is an intimate connection with another that is perhaps too seldom felt in a society that strives for ever-faster “7)connectivity.”I was first 8)hurled into an 9)ambivalent presence many years ago, when a friend’s mother died unexpectedly. I had received a phone call from the hospital where she had just passed away. Part of me wanted to rush down there, but another part of me didn’t want to intrude