Hey Chris,
For motivation you ask (may not be exact language off the top of my head, but more or less):
“Can you remember a time you were totally motivated in the context of [career/relationship/etc]? Can you remember a specific time? Go back in your body see what you saw, hear what you heard, and feel the feelings of being totally motivated, and now rewind the movie of your memory to the moment just before you got motivated. What is the feeling you felt right before you got motivated?”
Then they will say something like “determined.” Or it may not be a feeling… could be something like “well I was being really creative.” That’s fine too.
“Is determination/creativity important to you in your career?”
“Yes.”
For threshold: “If you had all the [values they gave you so far] in your [career/relationship/etc], what would make you leave?”
They give you one or more values. “Is that important to you in your career?” “Yes.”
“Ok so if you had that [the value(s) that would make them leave] AND all the [values they gave you via standard elicitation], what would make you stay?”
They give you one or more values. “Is that important to you in your career?” “Yes.”
“If you had that and everything above, what would make you leave?”…
And so on. Keep alternating between what would make them leave and stay until they say “Nothing would make me stay.”
These scripts should be in the book Time Line Therapy and the Basis of Personality and/or the values elicitation script in the Master Prac manual.
Cheers!
Adam Mayer