2. At the end of the day I’ll know this
conference has been a success for me
if _____________________.
3. Overview
• Understanding your brain’s built-in hard-wired
reward-and-planning system
• Asking 2 questions
• Strategic behavioral inquiry: How exactly did
you do that?
4. Assumptions
• Everybody’s doing the best they can
• Every behavior serves a function
• Behavior is not incomprehensible or random
• Behavior follows patterns which reveal
themselves to the curious observer free of
prejudice or blame or theory
17. Preferred States Inventory
1. Call to mind a “peak” moment
– When was this?
– Who was there?
– Where were you?
2. Clarify sensory detail
– What exactly did you see?
– What were you hearing?
– Was there texture? Temperature?
– Were there smells?
18. Preferred States Inventory
3. Identify the highlight moment
– What was the very best part of all that? If you had
to choose just one moment?
4. Say hello to your body
– What were you feeling, in your body, right in the
middle of all that?
– Where exactly – in your body – did you feel that?
– What words would describe that feeling?
29. The reward-and-planning system
• Anticipate goal (state)
• Identify tasks
• Sequence / problem-solve
• Block out distractions
• Get the reward
30. Ways the reward-and-planning system
can go wrong
• Anticipate goal (state)
• Identify tasks
• Sequence / problem-solve
• Block out distractions
• Get the reward
31. Ways the reward-and-planning system
can go wrong
• Anticipate goal (state)
– Strategies:
• Preferred States Inventory
• Letter from the future
• Look for the goal-behind-the-goal
32.
33.
34. Ways the reward-and-planning system
can go wrong
• Identify tasks
– Strategies:
• Coaching
• Interview someone who’s already done it
• Vocational counseling
• Weekly planning session
35. The best defense against the
manipulation of our attention is
to determine for ourselves – in
advance - how we want to
invest it.
- E. Goldberg
36.
37. Ways the reward-and-planning system
can go wrong
• Sequence / problem-solve
– Strategies:
• Coaching
• Project management
• Review your successes and strengths: What evidence
do you have that you CAN do this?
• Psychotherapy
• Morning 10-minute review
• Mind-mapping software / apps
40. Ways the reward-and-planning system
can go wrong
• Block out distractions
– Strategies:
• Eliminate distractions
• Increase salience (what’s in it for me?)
• Morning 10-minute review
• The Body Double
• StayOnTask app
43. Ways the reward-and-planning system
can go wrong
• Get the reward
– Strategies
• Maintain boundaries
• Ask “what about this do I want?”
• Get clear about your preferred states. Recognize
your unique body-based neurological blueprint for
happiness. Be honest, own it.
99. Objectives of SBI
• Specific behavioral strategy
• What feeling-goals were associated with the
goal?
• Motivational level on a scale from 1-10
100. Benefits of SBI
• Affirms the value of coachees’ unique internal
experience
• Emphasizes the culture of self-regulation
• Encourages metacognition
101. Assumptions of SBI
• Everybody’s doing the best they can
• Every behavior serves a function
• Behavior is not incomprehensible or random
• Behavior follows patterns which reveal
themselves to the curious observer free of
prejudice or blame or theory
103. HEDYDT?
• How
• Exactly
• Did
• You
• Do
• That
• ?
104. HEDYDT?
• How (a technology)
• Exactly (a precise “recipe,” a sequence of
actions and thoughts and images)
• Did (post-mortem)
• You (accountability, reality-based)
• Do (behavioral, practical)
• That (situation-specific)
• ? (open, genuinely curious inquiry)
105. Personal Application
• What habit or practice have you intentionally
developed? And How Exactly Do You Do That?
• What bad habit persists? And How Exactly Do
You Do That?
• End-of-day QI
106. Collect data – allow yourself to fall in
love with the truth
107. Family/Social Application
• Think of the most important relationship in
your life right now
– What do you most admire about him/her?
– If you had a magic wand, what might you change?
– What could you do to improve the relationship by
10% in the next 24 hours?
108. Clinical Application
• What recurring behavioral problem is showing
up in your clinic or classroom?
• Note: we aren’t asking “why did you do that,”
but rather “how exactly did you do that.”
Appendix A
111. Summary
• Understanding your brain’s built-in hard-wired
reward-and-planning system
• Asking 2 questions
• Strategic behavioral inquiry: How exactly did
you do that?
113. Let’s stay in touch!
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An intervention to increase coachees’ insight about their unique and specific patterns for desired and undesired behaviors. SBI is an approach which is non-judgmental but reality-based, and invites participants to fall in love with reality and to desire reality even more than we desire denial and excuses. SBI assumes that behavior is logical, not random and not incomprehensible. That our behavior follows patterns which are discernible by the curious and engaged observer free of prejudice and blame and theory.
NeuroanatomyNeurotransmittersPhenomenology of dopamine and serotonin
This is a very abstract or ouside-in understanding of human motivation. We’ll be moving towards in increasingly inside-out understanding.
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Emory University neuroscientists James Rilling and Gregory Berns. They found that the act of helping another person triggers activity in the caudate nucleus and anterior cingulate cortex regions of the brain, the parts involved in pleasure and reward.Ss instructed to plan 5 acts of kindness during week. Lyubomirsky, S., Sheldon, K. M., & Schkade, D. (2005). Pursuing happiness: The architecture of sustainable change. Review of General Psychology, 9, 111-131.
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NeuroanatomyNeurotransmittersPhenomenology of dopamine and serotonin
FIGHTING NUN IN MYSTERY BOX: WHY IS THIS FUNNY? WE HAVE EXPECTATIONS BASED ON AGE, STATUS, ETC.Preschool Run simple errands (e.g., “Get your shoes from thebedroom”). Tidy bedroom or playroom with assistance. Perform simple chores and self-help tasks withreminders (e.g., clear dishes from table, brush teeth,get dressed). Inhibit behaviors: don’t touch a hot stove; don’t runinto the street; don’t grab a toy from another child;don’t hit, bite, push, etc.
FIGHTING NUN IN MYSTERY BOX: WHY IS THIS FUNNY? WE HAVE EXPECTATIONS BASED ON AGE, STATUS, ETC.Preschool Run simple errands (e.g., “Get your shoes from thebedroom”). Tidy bedroom or playroom with assistance. Perform simple chores and self-help tasks withreminders (e.g., clear dishes from table, brush teeth,get dressed). Inhibit behaviors: don’t touch a hot stove; don’t runinto the street; don’t grab a toy from another child;don’t hit, bite, push, etc.
FIGHTING NUN IN MYSTERY BOX: WHY IS THIS FUNNY? WE HAVE EXPECTATIONS BASED ON AGE, STATUS, ETC.Preschool Run simple errands (e.g., “Get your shoes from thebedroom”). Tidy bedroom or playroom with assistance. Perform simple chores and self-help tasks withreminders (e.g., clear dishes from table, brush teeth,get dressed). Inhibit behaviors: don’t touch a hot stove; don’t runinto the street; don’t grab a toy from another child;don’t hit, bite, push, etc.
FIGHTING NUN IN MYSTERY BOX: WHY IS THIS FUNNY? WE HAVE EXPECTATIONS BASED ON AGE, STATUS, ETC.Preschool Run simple errands (e.g., “Get your shoes from thebedroom”). Tidy bedroom or playroom with assistance. Perform simple chores and self-help tasks withreminders (e.g., clear dishes from table, brush teeth,get dressed). Inhibit behaviors: don’t touch a hot stove; don’t runinto the street; don’t grab a toy from another child;don’t hit, bite, push, etc.
FIGHTING NUN IN MYSTERY BOX: WHY IS THIS FUNNY? WE HAVE EXPECTATIONS BASED ON AGE, STATUS, ETC.Preschool Run simple errands (e.g., “Get your shoes from thebedroom”). Tidy bedroom or playroom with assistance. Perform simple chores and self-help tasks withreminders (e.g., clear dishes from table, brush teeth,get dressed). Inhibit behaviors: don’t touch a hot stove; don’t runinto the street; don’t grab a toy from another child;don’t hit, bite, push, etc.
FIGHTING NUN IN MYSTERY BOX: WHY IS THIS FUNNY? WE HAVE EXPECTATIONS BASED ON AGE, STATUS, ETC.Preschool Run simple errands (e.g., “Get your shoes from thebedroom”). Tidy bedroom or playroom with assistance. Perform simple chores and self-help tasks withreminders (e.g., clear dishes from table, brush teeth,get dressed). Inhibit behaviors: don’t touch a hot stove; don’t runinto the street; don’t grab a toy from another child;don’t hit, bite, push, etc.
NeuroanatomyNeurotransmittersPhenomenology of dopamine and serotonin
NeuroanatomyNeurotransmittersPhenomenology of dopamine and serotonin
NeuroanatomyNeurotransmittersPhenomenology of dopamine and serotonin
Insight re: match b/t activities and PSI
EXPLAIN WKSHOP’S PURPOSE, INCREASE SALIENCE, RELATE TO PRIOR K’LEDGE
APPENDIX F p.a7: WRITE DOWN ?S YOU’VE HAD TO THIS POINT
Small group: id activities in each of 4 quadrants
Clarifying the 1stquestionWhy is it important that our clients are engaged in commitments and obligations and relationships which are fun?
Clarifying the 2nd question
Clarifying the 1stquestionWhy is it important that our clients are engaged in commitments and obligations and relationships which are fun?
Feel free to substitute a more meaningful word: engaging, pleasant, rewarding. (but not “necessary” or “the right thing” b/c these are more abstract and more distal to the brain-based experience of reward). Fun is proximal to the neurochemistry of actual human brain functioning.
A big leap: the 2 questions are intimately bound together
Motivational blueprintAlternatives: authority, peer group, mediaNB: many of us are shaped and influenced by peer group, authority, and media (buddha, dharma, sangha). U and your coachee may acquiesce to different authority, and u cn still do great work tgthrAuthority of the bodyBut what if what feels good to me is to eat 5 chocolate pies or to punch the mailman in the face? Is that okay?Two responses: 1) value of community; snd 2) neuroscience (emory research)Emory University neuroscientists James Rilling and Gregory Berns. They found that the act of helping another person triggers activity in the caudate nucleus and anterior cingulate cortex regions of the brain, the parts involved in pleasure and reward.Ss instructed to plan 5 acts of kindness during week. Lyubomirsky, S., Sheldon, K. M., & Schkade, D. (2005). Pursuing happiness: The architecture of sustainable change. Review of General Psychology, 9, 111-131.
Google calendar w/ text f/uSupportive check-ins
Can’t decide whether it’s important? Watch tvvs study french: make it vivid
Body doubleHarder than a 3/10?Increase saliency: stimulantrx, “nothing tastes as good as thin feels” – brain cant tell the difference b/t real and imagined….but real is vivider, pairing dull/difficult tasks w/ intrinsic reward (e.g cape, med student)
EXPLAIN WKSHOP’S PURPOSE, INCREASE SALIENCE, RELATE TO PRIOR K’LEDGE
STUDY BOX
Make task shorter, build in breaks, use salient r+ for afterwards, make steps more explicit, make task more appealing (beat the clock, write steps down on slips of paper, in jar)
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Getting to the gym – esp after full day’s work – is harder than a 3 / 10.
Delete 30 FB friendsDelete 3 “friends”Delete 2 commitments or obligations which arent fun or important (trauma survivor at txgiving; west boylstonhxical society; I decided to stop eating foods that make me feel bad)
An intervention to increase coachees’ insight about their unique and specific patterns for desired and undesired behaviors. SBI is an approach which is non-judgmental but reality-based, and invites participants to fall in love with reality and to desire reality even more than we desire denial and excuses. SBI assumes that behavior is logical, not random and not incomprehensible. That our behavior follows patterns which are discernible by the curious and engaged observer free of prejudice and blame and theory.
Grandma’s # cake – mess up 1 thing…Likewise, you have a recipe…. – change just 1 thing, and u get a diff. outcome.
29 times a month he made curfew. That’s great executive fx !
If you drive your car off a cliff you will be punished. Not “artifically” but naturalistically and organically. I want my client to know how to text when texting is exactly the right choice. And how to resist text messages in settings which organically punish texting. (like what?)I want her to know exactly when to swear. And to know how to avoid swears in settings which naturalistically punish swearing. (like what?)
MYSTERY BOXHAVE ST / VP PUT NAMES OF ATTENDEES IN HATAPPENDIX A p. a2: TO DO