The strategic debriefing. Incorporating strategic dialogue in the standard debriefing after the scenario

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. The most common debriefing structure usually includes at least three phases, a time to confront reactions and/or emotions felt during the scenario, an analysis of events and a summary or application phase, in which the learning acquired throughout the debriefing is solidified and the major take- home messages condensed. However, using only open-ended questions and/or the puls/delta method, participants' attitudes may remain unchanged and result in only superficial reflections of the scenario. The purpose of this article is to describe and propose incorporating strategic dialogue after the healthcare high fidelity scenario in the standard debriefing. Strategic dialogue alternates analogical and digital language and uses metaphors and paraphrases, guiding the participant to live a corrective emotional experience, the primary cause of the change. The structure of the strategic dialogue is based on the use of questions with the illusion of alternatives, restructuring paraphrases, the evocation of sensations and summary redefinitions, in order to reach the discovery that leads to change. The simulation method is well suited and integrated with strategic communication. Both aim at change, which must first be experienced and then explained. The central focus of strategic short therapy is the corrective emotional experience in which the patient modifies his or her vision of reality through concrete emotional experiences. The change, in order to be rapid and effective, must primarily produce a real personal experience of transformation on a perceptive-emotional level and only then can it be the subject of cognitive reasoning. The change must first pass from the experience phase and only then to the level of cognitive awareness. The strategic language, an effective tool in strategic psychotherapy and business problem solving, is ideal and complementary to the standard debriefing methods, making them more performing and functional because, next to common logic, it makes use of non-ordinary logical language.