VES®Methods at a glance · Compassionate Inquiry
Compassionate Inquiry and FIVE MOVESUnderstand why, or feel again today?
One path looks for the origin in your story. The other goes to the spot where the feeling sits today. Honestly compared, without putting the other method down.
What it does well
What is Compassionate Inquiry?
Gabor Maté built something brave. Compassionate Inquiry doesn't charge at your symptom. It sits down next to you and asks, quietly: where did this actually start? Where does it come from? Over several sessions, with a person who's genuinely there, you trace your way back to the moment when your pattern once made sense. That's intelligent, warm, serious work. If you want to understand where something comes from, you're in exactly the right place.
Side by side
Two paths, calmly compared.
Compassionate Inquiry
Approach
Asking with compassion: where did this start?
Path
Back to the moment when the pattern once made sense.
Duration
Several sessions, with a person who's genuinely there.
Afterwards
You understand where it comes from.
FIVE MOVES
Approach
Your body shows the one spot where it sits.
Path
Five guided Moves carry your desired feeling right there.
Duration
One session, 90 minutes, one to one with your guide.
Afterwards
Forty days of app guidance, so it lasts.
Four stations, two paths. No better or worse: which one fits depends on what you bring.
And us?
What FIVE MOVES does differently.
We don't ask why. Not because it's easier, but because your body has known the answer all along, and it never gives it in words. FIVE MOVES doesn't go back into your story. We go to the one spot your body shows you in this moment, and that's where what's stuck gets to release. You don't need to understand why you feel this way to feel different today. Maté takes you to the origin. With us, you find your way back to the place where you're safe, in a single session. Both are allowed.
You don't have to understand why. You get to feel again, today.
The method in detail →Coordinate 1 · Lighthouse
Desired feeling
in your heart space. Where you want to go.
Coordinate 2 · Destination
The spot
in your body. Where it sits. That's where it releases.
Fair is fair
What fits when?
Compassionate Inquiry
When you want to understand.
If you want to understand where something comes from, Compassionate Inquiry is exactly the right place. Intelligent, warm, serious work.
FIVE MOVES
When you want to feel again today.
You don't relive the old situation, and you don't have to tell it either. Your body shows where the feeling sits today, and that's where the session resolves it.
Both answers are meant honestly. All methods at a glance →
Often asked
Short answers.
What makes FIVE MOVES different from Compassionate Inquiry?
Compassionate Inquiry gently looks for the origin in your story. FIVE MOVES doesn't need the story: your body shows where the feeling sits today, and that's where the session resolves it.
Do I have to talk about my past in FIVE MOVES?
No. You don't relive the old situation, and you don't have to tell it either. We ask where, never why. That's exactly what without retraumatisation means.
What does a FIVE MOVES session look like?
One session, one to one with your guide, through all five Moves. Your desired feeling leads the way. Then forty days of app guidance in everyday life.
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One session, 90 minutes, from 180 CHF. One appointment is usually enough.
Around 1,000 sessions guided · People whose eyes light up again
so deep. so safe.