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Therapy session with Will and Sean
In the early part of the film, Will start to have a therapy session with Sean, he was quite resistant to reveal himself and share his past stories at the beginning of the session, which is understandable considering his traumatised childhood and socio-economical status. With the high level of cultural intelligence and cultural capabilities of Sean, Will starts to feel secure and safe with Sean’s presence, which guards down his defending mechanism and express his emotions and feelings. By establishing mutual understanding and rapport with Will, Sean brings out positive effects on obtaining Will’s trust and redirects Will’s approaches to life. This is an excellent example of what Holley & Steiner (2005) defined a safe Space is, in which “to encourage participation and honest sharing of ideas (Boostrom, 1998; Latting, 1990)”. Sean was attentive on Will’s story, didn’t push him to change his behaviour and saw him with unbiased view, which affected to
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The longer the time they spent together the more personal history needs to be answered by Will. As Skylar notices Will’s injured soul and begins to have conversations with Will about his true life. With Skylar’s intervention to Will’s life, he starts to get upset and loses his will for engaging in relationship and trust. Therefore, we could sense the components of “unsafe space”, especially personal characteristics, according to Holley & Steiner (2005)’s journal. As Will is sarcastic, closed-minded, opinionated, refuse to listen Skylar’s opinion and also he looks intimidated, insecure and feel vulnerable with the relationship with Skylar. However, these issues are eventually sort out with thoughtful support and non-judgmental behaviour from Skylar, and it led them to have open and honest communication at the

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