Jo Sherring

• Occupational Therapist

• Mental Health Clinician

• Managing Director of

The Maya Academy

The strength of a desire

(cognitive)

Enacting the desire

(behavioural)

Motivation

(cognitive)

Motivated

behaviour

(behavioural)

We only see

Interest

Hope Vision

Belief in

capacityIntuition

Control

Discomfort

Values

interested

Seems obvious!

High or low interest?

Introjected interest? (expectations, pressure, societal norms)

Compliance?

Complacency (people going along with things because they can’t be bothered)

hope

How sophisticated is our

understanding of hope?

Narrative

Resigned to circumstances

Contextual barriers eg. discrimination,

stigma, race, poverty, war, disability,

culture etc.

Hopelessness if often totally rational

vision

Can visualise life once the change

is implemented

Process not an outcome

Can visualise the steps they will

take

capacity

Skills

Strengths

Resources – emotional energy

Supports – you, family, friends

value

How is the change going to make their life better and how much to do they value that?

Is the change congruent with their values?

Is it a deeply held personal value?

intuition

Gut feelings are important

The person may not be very in

tune with it

May indicate a process needs

to happen before they are ready

control

*Autonomy is one of the MOST

important concepts in motivation

*Read up on Self Determination

Theory (Ryan & Deci)

*Extrinsic motivators DECREASE

intrinsic motivation

tolerate the discomfort

*Relates back to values

*Anxiety, grief, loss

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