Pros and Cons (Decisional Balance) exercise
11th December 2015
Role play example:
Now practice this yourselves:
- Select some behaviour or habit that you are AMBIVALENT ABOUT CHANGING
- We will only ask for feedback to the large group on PROCESS and not CONTENT
- So be brave and pick something that is real and has some "bite" in your personal experience
- Divide into 3's to discuss statements about your
- Explore the "cons" first
- Socratic questioning, hypothesising
- NOTE that the QUESTIONING is the intervention here, not some form of Assessment
- "OARS" exercises with a statement
- Open questions
- Affirmations
- Reflecting back
- Summary