Written by Eugene Morgan
Milton Erickson uses anything and everything that a person brings to the office. Whenever someone walks in Erickson’s office, Erickson would always look for something in that person to use to aid change. What someone saw as a liability, Erickson saw as an asset that’s useful to aid change. Erickson never stops looking for resources in a person to use for his/her benefit.
Utilization means to take what we got and build on it. But sometimes we have a tendency to focus on our limitations; in other words our weaknesses. Instead, use our strengths as resources and turn our weaknesses to assets to help cope and to deal with our problems.