Source: Judith DeLosier, based on the SCORE pattern by Robert Dilts and Todd Epstein

Select a problem.

Create your four spaces.

Find a movement pattern expressing the symptoms and a pattern expressing the cause.

Break state, then go to the Outcomes space, and find a movement pattern expressing the desired outcomes and the effects of the desired outcomes.

Moving through all spaces, discover a dance that integrates the movement from cause to effects.

Discover a missing resource. Find a movement for the missing resource and integrate it into your movement expression.

Repeat this to fully integrate the movement expression.Test.

Solve problems by enhancing your intuition and body wisdom through movement. This pattern promotes the mind-body relationship in a way that accesses and mobilizes deep resources, creating a self-organizing pathway toward a resourceful and relevant state. In this pattern, we will think of a challenge as existing in a problem space.

The key elements that we will consider for this are in the acronym S.C.O.R.E., which stands for Symptoms, Causes, Outcomes, Resources, and Effects.

You will be asked to express yourself in movement and dance, but we are talking about a personal form of expression for which there is no pressure to perform for anyone else. These are expressions that you find within yourself and express in whatever way you discover.

Step 1: Choose a problem. #

Select a problem that you would like to solve. Choose a problem that seems as though it will require an expanded frame or insight in order to be solved.

Step 2: Make four separate spaces. #

Think of them as being in chronological order. Remember that a symptom means the thing that tells you the problem is there. Desired effects refer to the long-term effects of the outcome. Go to a meta-position and select a location for each of the following four items: Cause Symptom Outcome Desired Effect

Step 3: Find a movement pattern expressing the symptoms. #

STEP onto the Symptom space. Access the symptom (problem) experience. Find within yourself a pattern of movement that somehow expresses that experience.

Step 4: Find a movement pattern expressing the cause. #

STEP into the Cause space. Discover how the feelings and movement associated with the symptom space can guide you to a sense of the cause of the symptom. Find the movements that express the cause state.

Step 5: Break state, then go to the outcome space, and find a movement pattern expressing the desired outcomes. #

Break out of state and into the meta-position.Step into the outcome space. To create a fully associated experience of the solution state, the state that you desire, Discover and express the movements that express this state.

Step 6: Find a movement pattern expressing the effects of the desired outcomes. #

Step into the desired effect space. Explore how it feels to fully experience the results of your desired outcome. Spend enough time to deeply experience this.

Step 7: As you move through the spaces, find a dance that integrates movement from cause to effect. #

a. Step into the Cause location and slowly walk through all four spaces. b. Pay attention to how your body intuitively connects the symptom and outcome locations. c. Repeat the entire walk several times until you feel the dance is a single dance that transports you from the cause space to the desired effect space.

Step 8: Discover a missing resource. #

9. Move out into a meta-position and explore what feels like your dance is missing. See if there is a sense of a missing resource that this feeling can bring your attention to.

Step 9: Find a movement for the missing resource and integrate it into your movement expression. #

Go through your spaces, find a movement expression of that missing resource, and add it to your dance. Find a movement expression of that missing resource and add it to your dance.

Step 10: Repeat this process until the movement expression is fully integrated. #

Repeat the movement through the spaces until it feels like a fully integrated personal movement expression.

Step 11: Test. #

In the coming days, notice if new solutions occur to you, or if you spontaneously act them out in some way. As you encounter challenging situations, explore how your way of being physically can express more of your resources in some way through body language or how you move your own internal sense of energy and emotion.