Overgeneralizing, mind reading, jumping to conclusions, and assumptions are just a few of the thinking traps that impede performance. Successful communication and wellbeing are dependent on the ability to focus, challenge and reframe automated behaviors. Learn to stay solution-focused rather than problem-focused. Understand how becoming self-aware of the processes allows you to understand clients and co-workers more effectively.
Program Agenda:
- Thinking Traps
- Personalization, Externalizing, Jumping to Conclusions/Mind-Reading, Overgeneralization and Catastrophic Thinking
- Working with reframes and refocus to challenge thoughts
- Relearning our ABCs (challenging beliefs)
- Discuss activating events, beliefs, and consequences (ABC model)
- Learning the interconnectedness of beliefs, thoughts, emotions, and actions
- How these present in ourselves
- Once we understand them in ourselves, it can help us to understand others
- Disputing Beliefs and Evaluating Positive Effects of Factual Substitution
*Short Q&A exercises during each section
Learning Objectives:
- Learn common cognitive traps and how to redirect focus
- Learn the relationship between events, beliefs and consequences
- Practice parsing beliefs and consequences
- Experiment disputing, reframing, and evaluating problem thoughts
*50 or 100 min lecture/workshop