The premise
Conflicting "parts" are behaviour patterns with different intentions — the ambitious part and the rest part each protect something. The conflict persists because each side's positive intention is unacknowledged by the other. Resolution means finding the shared higher intention both serve.
Protocols
- Six-step reframe: negotiate with the part generating the unwanted behaviour for its intention, then generate better means — see reframing
- Visual squash: externalise the two parts as images in each hand, find what each wants for you at the highest level, notice they want the same thing, and integrate the images as the hands come together
- Parts party formats and chairwork variants used in practice groups
Honest limits
Parts work handles ordinary internal conflict — decisions, ambivalence, self-sabotage patterns. It does not treat dissociative conditions or trauma; practitioners who treat every client as a parts carnival are over-serving the tool. Scope discipline first, technique second.
Practice
The protocols read as theatre on the page and only become real with live work: timing, calibration, and the moment of actually waiting for the part's response. This is advanced-curriculum material in the programme, after the listening base is built.