Drivers and the miniscript

Prepared By

Manu Melwin Joy

Assistant ProfessorIlahia School of Management Studies

Kerala, India.

Phone – 9744551114Mail – manu_melwinjoy@yahoo.com

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Drivers and the miniscript

Working in the early 1970s,

clinical psychologist Taibi

Kahler made an intriguing

discovery. He had followed

up Berne’s idea that the

script may be played out

over very short periods.

Drivers and the miniscript

Second by second, Kahlernoted his subjects words,tones, gestures, posturesand facial expressions. Hefound that there werecertain distinctive sets ofbehaviors which peopleconsistently showed justbefore they moved into anykind of scripty behavior orfeelings.

Drivers and the miniscript

Kahler and his coworkers

listed five of these second by

second behavior sequences.

They called them drivers.

Further study showed that

driver behavior was part of a

wider pattern which Kahler

called the miniscript.

Drivers and the miniscript

Miniscript is a sequence of

script behavior, feelings and

beliefs. It is played out over

a time scale ranging from a

few seconds to a few

minutes. Invariably, it begins

with one of the driver

behavior.

Drivers and the miniscript

Miniscript reproduces over a

short time period, the

process of the entire life

script. Each time I run

through my miniscript, I

reinforce my script process.

Whenever I step out of my

minscript pattern, I help

defuse my script process.

Drivers and the miniscript

The five drivers aredistinctively related to thesix process script types. Byobserving someone’s driverpatterns, you can predictreliably what her processscript will be. Thus bylearning how to detect thefive driver behavior, you cantell a lot about a person in ashort space of time.

Drivers and the miniscript

The five drivers are

–Be perfect.

–Please (Others).

– Try hard.

–Be strong.

–Hurry Up.

Drivers and the miniscript

Each of the five drivers is

signaled by a distinctive set

of words, tones, gestures,

postures and facial

expressions. You have

already learned to use these

clues in making a behavioral

diagnosis of ego states.

Drivers and the miniscript

In looking for driver behaviors,

you need to shrink your time

scale. Driver behaviors are

typically shown within half a

second to one second.

Observing within this short

time span takes some initial

practice if you are not used to

it. But it soon becomes second

nature.

Drivers and the miniscript

The caution “don’t

interpret” applies here, just

as it did when we were

discussing behavioral

diagnosis in general. Stay

with the behaviors you can

actually see and hear.

References

Thank You

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