Hermes’ Web Series:
11 Introductory Videos
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How People Are Put Together.
Psychologist Jerry Fjerkenstad, creator of Hermes’ Web, explains basic principles of using Hermes’ Web to explain the dynamics of human behavior and how people are put together.
Making Ideas Visible
Hermes’ Web helps people structure their mind so they can see an idea!! Don’t just talk -make it visual! Soon your client will say: “I see!!”
Meet the Barrier!
The Barrier separates Worlds: ego & core, head & heart, a leader & their followers. And, every Barrier has filters built-in that alter or block messages going out or coming in.
The Toad needs values!
The Toad is Instinctual Sexuality & needs to be integrated into relationships that seek intimacy & stability. A Toad Farewell Party (Bachelor’s Party) doesn’t do the job!
The Hoberman Sphere: A Magic Tool!
The Core is the place where everything connects! Is the core alive & breathing, contaminated, or so hard-core it takes meth to blow it open? What is the state of the soul! Learn how the core works & its dynamics.
Family Values When It Matters Most!
How to values get planted deep enough that they hold up under pressure and don’t melt away? How do we teach EQ (emotional intelligence), core-level change and developing a conscience?
Getting a Message Across
Hermes the Messenger can move easily between worlds and make sense in each: that is the goal of Responsivity - to translate messages into differrent learning styles so they can be effectively communicated!
The Lawyer
Tell the Lawyer to Shut Up!! Lawyer Mode prevents accountability and stops the therapeutic process, wasting time and money!
The Perfect Servant!
Is it lip service or true love; a great employee or a budding saboteur? Perfect Servants store up resentments, hunger and vengeance in their core. Divorce Court starts in the hidden core! When we are desperate for love we can silence our core until it bursts!
The Ultra Toad!
A Toad ignored or hidden becomes contaminated, amoral, even lethal, especially when barricaded. Say hello to Slime Time!
The Nuclear Reactor: Managing the Contaminated Core
Reactors work—but what about the waste that lasts forever? Is your reactor safe or volatile? Are Donuts your primary solution to stress & pain? Who’s in charge of the control board: individually or culturally?
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Some Have The Death Star Inside Them
We all have a “+” or “-” sign in our core, which represents the kind of mirroring we got growing up, and our bottom line under stress.
Responsivity Matters When People Want To Change.
Jerry explains to visitor LuAnn what Responsivity is all about and why it’s so important to successful therapy, teaching and change.
If They Can "See" it, They Get it!
Both parties need to be free to say what they “see” - needs to be true for both of us! That facilitates core-level change!
Responsivity Makes Core-level Change Digestible!
Responsivity utilizes icons to connect across long distances re: life experience - like wormholes in outerspace. Finding a language we both speak!!
The Wild Things Are What We Evolved From!
Where The Wild Things Are is a great story that shows what our adulthood evolves from, for better or worse!
Human Duality is the Biggest Problem.
We too easily forget about the core and are surprised when it goes renegade or creates a 2nd world at odds with the values we espouse. We need to establish, at the minimum, a detente or entente between those two worlds!
People Need To Feel Seen To Want To Change
Few things are more important than mirroring: we need to be seen and recognized, as we are, even if it is problematic. Change requires mirroring as well: precision defines the cure!
My presentation for MnATSA 2022: a Sex Offender Treatment Conference. A tutorial on a responsivity-based approach to sex offender treatment which can apply to many therapeutic and personal situations.
AN EXPERIMENTAL OPEN HOUSE!
Inviting the local people in to see what the toys are all about - an intro to responsivity and trying to make sense of life and its violence and how to treat it!
What Rules In the Human Core.
Mirroring makes us who we are, whether we were mirrored well or not. Bottom line: know your core and figure out how to manage it, especially under duress.
THE ORIGINAL HERMES’ WEB VIDEO, starring Peter Moore and the late William Byrd Wilkins and directed/written by Pam Nice.
Here you see Hermes’ Web in action with a client in situ as well as later in a post-treatment interview: a candid, no-holds-barred interchange interspersed with reflection and explanation!!