Overview
The human mind can be our greatest ally or our most troublesome enemy if we don’t fully understand it or how we can manage it. The wise mind model is a basic model which helps us understand ourselves by looking at the mind not from a scientific perspective, but from a more practical perspective.
Benefits
When we access the Wise Mind we are able to:
Maintain or regain calmness when attacked or confronted.
Intuitively sense what will calm emotions when in the heat of internal crisis or conflict.
Find clarity of choice when confused. Be sensitive to the state of others in our decision making. Maintain effective emotion-regulation (especially during times of extreme crisis and challenge)
Overview
Many people believe that negative events cause them to act in certain ways. However, research tells us that our reactions are based on our beliefs about the situation rather than the situation itself.
Benefits
This ABC Framework helps individuals begin identifying their limiting beliefs and build awareness of how they think. (How in control are you really?).
By identifying thoughts that are often irrational, illogical and unhelpful, they can start to dispute them and begin to practise replacing them with healthier alternatives.
Overview
When we are aware of ourselves we become aware of our own ‘’dysfunctions’’, how it is that we are being effective, and ineffective, and we therefore can better identify how it is that we must change.
Benefits
Self-awareness centres on recognizing and managing our emotions.
The ability to recognise and understand your own thoughts, feelings, and emotions.
Self-management is your ability to regulate your behaviours, thoughts, and emotions in a productive way.
Social-awareness is the ability to understand social and ethical norms for behavior and to recognize family, school, and community resources and supports.
Social Influence is the ability to influence positive social and or cultural change.
Overview
All of our relationships require us to choose to connect with someone through their preferred learning styles/modes.
Benefits
Learning is more efficient or more effective if students are taught utilizing their preferred learning styles or approaches that have been specified as their learning style.
Overview
Science once told us that the human brain stops developing in childhood, however, we now know that the brain is constantly evolving and changing.
Benefits
A view of Growth and Fixed Mind sets and what it leads to.
A growth mindset: in this mindset, people believe that intelligence and talents can be improved through effort and learning.
A fixed mindset: in this mindset, people believe that their intelligence is fixed and static.
Overview
The Victim sees life as happening to them and feels powerless to change their circumstances. Victims place blame on a Persecutor who can be a person or a situation. Being powerless, the victim ostensibly seeks a rescuer to solve the problem for them.
Benefits
Understanding and escaping from the power game called the Victim drama triangle, and how to recognise and manage it effectively.
Overview
Our beliefs and expectations about others, influence our actions towards others.
Benefits
The cycle of a self-fulfilling prophesy - Appreciating the impact of positive or negative expectations on the performance of an individual or a group. Our beliefs about others influence our actions towards others, which in turn impacts others beliefs about themselves, which causes others actions towards us, and then ultimately reenforces our beliefs about others.
Overview
The quality of the relationships that we keep is often going to be determined by how well we are able to communicate.
Benefits
Improve your communication skills which are going to be valuable tools that involve us listening, hearing and speaking.
Become aware of what you intend to say versus what you actually say. Understand what the receiver hears, and what the receiver thinks you meant
Overview
To maintain the respect and trust in any relationship (personal, intimate or professional), it’s crucial that our decisions and actions are founded on reality (and not upon a misinterpretation of the facts).
Benefits
Learn the critical thinking skill of how to reach a conclusion based on evidence or reasoning.
Making inferences requires us to analyse information and draw conclusions based on evidence.
Overview
The core assumptions of CBT are based on the assumption that the quality of our thoughts impact how we relate to our life’s experiences. This means that the attitude and approach we take towards life, relationships and people will influence the outcomes we experience throughout life.
Benefits
Get an insight into Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is a treatment approach that provides us with a way of understanding our experience of the world, enabling us to make changes if we need to. It does this by dividing our experience into four central components: thoughts (cognitions), feelings (emotions), behaviours (actions) and physiology (your biology).
Overview
Cognitive distortions are internal mental filters or biases that increase our misery, fuel our anxiety, and make us feel bad about ourselves. Most of the thoughts that automatically pop into our minds are distorted in some way; they may be unrealistically negative or selective to a fault, ultimately leaving out important information.
Benefits
Understand the internal mental filters or biases, called Cognitive distortions. Learn how to identify these common cognitive distortions, how to challenge them and ultimately place them with more helpful, realistic thoughts.
These cognitive distortions typically result in a negative change in mood and lowered self-esteem.
Overview
This model can serve us as an excellent self-reflection tool for comparing the perception we have of ourselves to the impression that other people might have of us - within itself, this can become a guide map for making personal developmental improvements.
Benefits
Learn this very useful tool called the Johari Window model that provides us with a useful format for representing our personal experience of life (and our degree of self-awareness) from four alternative perspectives.
Overview
A metaphor used to illustrate the difference between the actual world and our understanding of the world as we perceive it to be. The 'map' is our understanding of the 'territory' of reality, and we must be careful to remember that the map is not the territory.
Benefits
Realise the difference between the actual world and our understanding of the world as we perceive it to be. The 'map' is our understanding of the 'territory' of reality, and we must be careful to remember that the map is not the territory. The map is not the territory – its just all that we can see.
Overview
We make peace with our truth once we accept that which is true, but it is up to us whether or not we make peace with that truth or not and whether we take responsibility for such truths. A person will need to confront themselves by identifying what behaviours, attitudes or beliefs they have which are not working for them and take responsibility for these things.
Benefits
Through having a deep awareness of our current choices, we can mindfully process the decisions we make in the future and how that can impact our way of living.
The only thing we have control over in life is how we choose to respond and react to situations.
Overview
Beliefs can be defined as the mental acceptance or conviction in the truth or actuality of some idea something that is accepted, considered to be true, or held as an opinion.
Benefits
Understand the true nature of what form as a belief and how we use beliefs to help us understand the world around us. A person's beliefs will guide them in their decision making and response to situations. Beliefs are usually formed in childhood or any other significant formative experience. It's important to remember that not all of our beliefs are true. (Beliefs are not facts).
Overview
Goals are what our desires become when we set deadlines to them to make them a reality. To feel like you’re moving forward and making adequate progress in life, it’s crucial that the goals you commit to pursuing play a part in driving you toward accomplishing a greater vision for your life as a whole.
Benefits
Why it is essential to establish what our Goals are, and how to use this to achieve what we desire in life.
Goal setting allows you to take control of your life’s direction and also provides you with a benchmark that can be used to determine whether you’re making progress towards these goals or not.
Overview
Locus of control refers to a person's beliefs about how much control they have over what happens to them in their life and how much influence they have over what happens in the world around them.
Benefits
Review your beliefs about how much control you have over what happens to you your life and how much influence you actually have over what happens in the world around you.
The Locus Of Control tool.
Overview
Perceptual Positions is an excellent technique and can be very useful in shifting a person’s perceptual filters of experience. This helps you gain valuable insights into another individual’s experience of the world.
Benefits
Perceptual positions can be used to help an individual to step back from their limited perspective to get distance from their emotional interpretation of any given situation.
Perceptual Positions is an excellent technique and can be very useful in shifting a person’s perceptual filters of experience.
This tool allows us to experience three separate sensory perspectives of an event, from that of our self to another and an objective observer.
Overview
Jean Piaget stages of cognitive development looked at how children construct a mental model of the world. Piaget didn’t believe in the concept of ‘fixed’ intelligence, arguing that it instead relied on cognitive maturation which was influenced by environment and socialisation
Benefits
Understand the different perspectives and views on cognitive development throughout a persons life, and how it plays a role in our behaviour during these various life stages
Overview
Based on the principles of WILLIAM GLASSER M.D, a world renowned Psychiatrist and author of several books – one being Choice Theory - a new psychology of personal freedom. Choice Theory is an internal control psychology and deals with why and how we make the choices that determine the course of our lives.
Benefits
Gain insight into Choice Theory - a model of hope and empowerment.
It helps you to gain the confidence to develop healthy coping skills to handle the most difficult circumstances.
’Between stimulus and response there is a space.
In that space lies our freedom to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom’’. Viktor Frankl
Overview
CBT practitioners are concerned with a client's actions, but it is helpful to understand how behaviour occurs at the neurological level. This is an overview of the physiological functions associated with various mood states and behaviours. Why should you take an interest in behavioural neuroscience? Science has made major advances in understanding how the brain structure and physiological aspects affect behaviour.
Benefits
An insight into neuroscience being the study of the nervous system – from structure to function, development to degeneration, in health and in disease.
It covers the whole nervous system, with a primary focus on the brain. Incredibly complex, our brains define who we are and what we do.
Overview
ACT is similar to mainstream CBT in that it outlines how feelings, thoughts and behaviours interact to create or maintain maladaptive approaches to life. ACT is built on the premise that it is a person's reaction to their thoughts and feelings that ultimately makes a difference, not their reaction to external events.
Benefits
Gain an understanding of this therapy technique and the benefits it has
An ACT therapist would encourage a client to identify what they are feeling, but then learn how to move on from the negative emotions.
The therapist would invite the student to sit with their anger and sadness.
They would then ask what the client could do next and whether their proposed actions would fit in with their personal values and life goals.