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so someone in the thread here gave a prompt but it asks the LLM to *be* an ideal parent. i don't think that is a good idea. the protocol is not about the facilitator of the protocol becoming an attachment figure, it's about developing the internal resource to model a secure one
otoh @vibepreserver says just use 4o and i agree, in voice mode. I did a half an hour voice chat with it and asked it to guide me in an ideal parent figure protocol scene step-by-step. it did pretty well without any further prompt work fwiw
this is def a different experience than having an attuned human facilitator present, but i can see myself using it in between sessions. and it seems "safer" than using LLMs directly for therapy because of the indirection involved
@annafordable evocation vs invocation is HUGE. "petitionary prayer" does not (in my experience) help with distress unless I also pretend I *am* the thing prayed to. (this is part of why praying to a monotheistic god sucked for me; the "active ingredient" is sacreligious!)
@annafordable Yeah agreed it feels wrong to still outsource the attachment when the practice is about developing and imagining the Ideal Figure for yourself. I like 4o to serve as narrator, crafting scenes for me to imagine where there IS an IPF.