Clients with borderline issues, trauma survivors, and those with other chronic problems frequently are paralyzed by ambivalence and impulses toward self-hatred and self-harm. Suggestions, interventions, and proposed solutions are often met with "Yes, but" or "You don't understand." In this workshop, you'll learn how to widen your clinical lens so that you'll neither be rigidly attached to any pet theory nor overinvested in having your clients change. You'll discover how to be with clients in their ambivalences and contradictions in a way that permits them to choose to step into the possibility that things can be different. We'll explore stories, task assignments, and techniques of inclusion and permission that can move therapy forward with your most difficult clients. (This session will continue with Workshop 303.)