Whole Person Wellness

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Psychological
The Cognitive Landscape
Beliefs and Worldview
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Personal Awareness Growth Model
FUTURE
Self
PRESENT
PAST
2011
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Why is change difficult? Change as an internal
Battle The Divided Self
Our goodness
Our shadow
Plato
Buddha

• Current Divisions in Psy
• Mind vs. Body
• Left vs. Right
• New vs. Old
• Controlled vs. automatic

Freud
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What are we changing? in ourselves and our
clients?
Review concepts below Talk about how changes in
each can Change the course of ones life?
Perception The process of understanding or
making sense of our sensory experiences. Beliefs
The ways in which you structure, evaluate, and
create meaning in the world around you. What you
think is true or real. Identity is your
subjective understanding of self, a set of
behavioral or personal characteristics by which
an individual is known. Values Those things
that are important to you a collection of
conscious or unconscious thoughts and feelings
that guide your life Self-Efficacy efficacy
comes from the Latin word efficacia meaning the
ability or confidence to achieve a desired
result. Attitudes Learned predispositions to
respond favorably or unfavorably towards
something.
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Our OpportunityPsychological Self

• Discovering, affirming, re-scripting or
  recommitting to
• Beliefs
• Personal Mission and Values

René Descartes- "Cogito ergo sum"
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The Power of Beliefs
Under all that we think, lives all we believe
Antonio Machado
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• I dont pretend to have all the answers. But
  the questions are certainty worth thinking about.
• -Arthur C. Clarke

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What becomes of them?

• Two sons grow up in a home of a bitter and cruel
  father who abuses alcohol, drugs and them. The
  father eventually goes to prison for the murder
  of a liquor store cashier
• A women turn sixty five years old and is in
  fairly good health but is struggling to find
  meaning
• A young women is violently mistreated and raped

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Here is their stories

• One son, Greg, becomes a violent criminal like is
  father Jesse becomes a successful business man
  is married with two children and dedicates much
  of his spare time to charity.
• Hulda Crooks (1896-1997) Affectionately know as
  "Grandma Whitney" she successfully scaled 14,505
  foot Mt. Whitney 23 times between the ages of 65
  and 91. She had climbed 97 other peaks during
  this period.
• Oprah Gail Winfrey (born January 29, 1954) is the
  American multiple-Emmy Award winning host of The
  Oprah Winfrey Show, the highest-rated talk show
  in television history. She is also an influential
  book critic, an Academy Award-nominated actress,
  and a magazine publisher.

Its not what happens that shapes usits the
beliefs we attach to it!
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What is a belief?

• The ways in which you structure, evaluate, and
  create meaning in the world around you. What you
  think is true or real.
• Research into Beliefs
• George Kelly- Constructs
  The Psychology of personal Constructs
• Norman Cousins-Belief
  The Anatomy of an Illness
• Albert Ellis- Belief
  Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy
• Aaron Beck- Schemas
  Cognitive Psychology

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Beliefs and Behavior
Perception Candice Pert
Beliefs
Body Bernie Siegel
Feelings David Burns
Relationships William Glasser
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Beliefs and Tables
How are beliefs like tables?
Judgment
Opinion
Experience References and Associations
Conviction
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Are Beliefs always true?

• Belief- are what we think is true or real
• Rene Descarte- Cartesian doubt
• Socrates' five step system of proving something
  true
• Offer a statement/idea
• Exceptions?
• If exceptions, we modify for more preciseness or
  prove false
• Nuance (a subtle distinction or variation)
  statement
• Truth- difficult to disprove

Adapted from Boeree, 1999
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Discovering Beliefs

• What do you believe about ___________?

• What would you have to believe in order to do
  what you have done? Or are doing?

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Discovering Beliefs

• Beliefs about self (identity)

• Core beliefs about reality (worldview)

• Beliefs about future (Purpose, Values Self
  Efficacy)

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Core Beliefs How do you construct reality?
Beliefs about self

1. What is a person made up of (body Mind or body,
   Mind, Spirit)?
2. Are humans free to choose or determined by
   biology?
3. Are people essentially good, selfish, evil or
   broken?
4. How are people alike? Different?
5. What is truth? Can truth be known? How does one
   learn this truth or knowledge? (Epistemological)
6. Are there moral laws? What is the origin for
   moral laws? Do laws apply to all people?
   (Ethical)
7. Does life have a purpose? Is it given to us or do
   we create it?
8. How did we come to be? Did we evolve? Were we
   created? Both? What is you expression of faith-
   more (something is going on we cant see) or no
   more (what you see is all there is)?
9. What happens to people when they die?

and reality?

• No more- Naturalism
• More-
• A. Theism- Judaism, Christianity, Islam
• B. Pantheism- Hindu, Zen Buddhists
• C. Panentheism
• Integration or other
• No idea

How is this relevant to work in Human Services?
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Beliefs about
Nationality
Naturalists
Race
Assisted Suicide
Religiousity
Child abuse
Environment
How can your beliefs help or hurt clients?
Sexual orientation
Politics
Abortion
Education
Islam
Parental Rights
Capital Punishment
Welfare
Economics
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Beliefs Professional Integrity

• How can you balance personal values with a
  respect for clients views?

Choice Other- centered, Do no harm
Responsibility Health and safety
Deep respect for the beliefs and values of others
plus an ongoing critique of our own
Personal beliefs and values
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Time in

• Discuss your understanding of worldview with
  your group.
• How does beliefs effect and affect how you look
  at self and others? Worldview?

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Psychological
The Cognitive Landscape
Mission Statement values
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Personal Awareness Growth Model
FUTURE
Self
PRESENT
PAST
2011
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Personal Mission Statement
We detect rather than invent our missions in
life - Viktor Frankl
http//www.youtube.com/watch?vr_jzqFCInoEfeature
related
Wangari Maathai
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Beliefs What is the purpose of your life?
Your mission statement can be a compass and a
destination !
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The End in Mind Exercise
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Personal Mission Statement
Everyone has their own specific vocation or
mission in lifetherein they cannot be replaced,
nor can their life be repeated. Thus, everyones
task is as unique as is their specific
opportunity to implement it. - Viktor Frankl

• Discuss your 75th Birthday Party Exercise with
  your small group. Can you begin to see key themes
  or values highlighted? This will help shape your
  mission statement and detect your key values.
• For extra help complete online mission statement
  builder
• http//www.franklincovey.com/msb/

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"If you don't stand for something you will fall
for anything." -Malcolm X
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Imagination and Values Milton
Rokeach (Professor of social psychology )

• Terminal Values

• Instrumental Values

• goals that individuals would like to achieve
  during their life times

• preferable ways of behaving

Espoused Values vs.
Presenting Values Values we say we hold
Values that show up in our life
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Discovering Values Awareness Choice

• Complete handout- Values Our Behavioral and Life
  Compass
• Critic your results- What does your life say?
  Espoused values vs. presenting values?
• How can you increase your commitment to espoused
  values?