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