I first heard about Video Interaction Guidance (VIG) in December 1996 when I attended a two-day introduction to this method of training given by Raymond Simpson and Hilary Kennedy, two psychologists who had brought VIG over to Scotland from the Netherlands, where it originated. The numbers of practitioners being trained in Britain has grown steadily and there are now about two hundred, using VIG in a variety of contexts.
Before I attended this introductory course I knew only that this method of training involved video, and it just looked at someone's strengths. I felt unsure about how you could help someone change without also talking about their difficulties , was this just brushing all those things under the carpet and simply 'looking on the bright side?'.
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