Online Individual Counselling and Couples Counselling Support Worksheet

From the Tension of Duality to the Emergence of Triplicity

This visual representation is to aid in reflection and enhance understanding of The Dualities that can arise in intimate relating, with the correlating “Third New Thing” that can only be born through the tension created by the dualities.

Whether you are in any intimate relationships or not, consider any potential polarities you struggle with. For example: Togetherness / Solitude, Privacy / Transparency, Freedom / Attachment, and so on. Look at the wheel or download the worksheet and print it off to look at various examples of how these dualities can show up and cause potential tension in yourself as well as in your relationship(s). Spend time contemplating the pairs of dualities. What is your relationships with each pole? Then, contemplate the triplicity that emerges through the two. This is a great journal exercise or conversation topic with a partner, close friend, or in individual counselling or therapy, and of course couples counselling and therapy.