COGNITIVE BEHAVIOUR
COACHING FORCOACHING FOR
YOUNG LEADERS
Dr. Renjan Roy Mathew
Clinical Psychologist & Head
Research & Development Department
MedVista
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Break the ice!!!
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This time you
have to
Observe it
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This time you
have to
Analyse it
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Find out the thoughts
Traffic Police
Old man
Aggressive man
Playing boys
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Playing boys
Young man & Beautiful ladies
Politicians
Little master
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Analysis
3 aspects
Mind-
body
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Thoughts,
emotions,
actions
3 aspects
of
human
psych
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Cognitive behaviour thrust
Thoughts Thoughts
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Thoughts
leads to
feelings
Thoughts
leads to
actions
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A 16 yrs old girl
wrote a letter to
her aunt
Take perspectives
•Parents
Read
out the
letter
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Take perspectives
of each group
involved
Discuss in groups
•Parents
•Girl
•Boy
•Elders
•Boy’s friends
•Girl’s friends
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Leaders present
group’s perspective
Open discussion
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Conclusions
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Cognitive Information
Processing
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Processing
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Childhood experience
Schemas
Assumptions & Core beliefs (Normally Dormant)
Critical life situations- activate schemas
Negative automatic thoughts
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Negative automatic thoughts
Negative
feelings
Behaviour
Bodily
changes
More
negative
thoughts
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Situation
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3 people waiting for bus
All have to reach on time
Situation
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All have to reach on time
Driver didn’t stop
Next bus only after 30 min
No alternate means of transport
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•Became sad, said this
happened to me many times,
when ever I have to catch up
some thing on time I fail, Its
coz. of me the driver didn’t
stopped
Mr. A
•Became angry, started
shouting, abusing driver,
system, wife, throw his bag,
red hot!!!
Mr. B
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Mr. B
•Upset but said mentally that
any way I have to wait 30 min
for the next bus, I ‘ll have
breakfast at the nearby hotel, I
have to convince my boss, next
time I should be ready to face
situations like this
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Why different people
respond differently
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respond differently
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The ABC of
Realistic Thinking
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Realistic Thinking
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The ABC of Realistic Thinking
A
•Activating Event or Action
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C
•The Consequences
Eg.
•The bus not stopping for you
•Is presumed to lead to
•Feeling angry, depressed, anxious or happy
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The ABC of Realistic Thinking
A
• Activating Event or Action
• Is presumed to lead to
B
• Your Beliefs or thoughts
• Results in
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B
C
• The Consequences
Eg.
• “I‘ll be late for an important meeting”
• “Nothing goes right for me”
• “This is a good thing to happen”
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Have fun
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Have a
break
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Why you need to think realistically
Leaders: How do they think?
How realistic their thoughts are?
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How realistic their thoughts are?
How well they understand a situation?
LEADERS
Think rationally, act purposefully, deal effectively
We are human beings not animals!
We all have the capacity to think rationally!
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Cognitive
Restructuring: Changing the
way you think
1. Learn to identify your thoughts in response to
events & the interpretation you make
4
STEPS
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2. Learn to challenge/ objectively/ reasonably
3. Restating unrealistic or unhelpful thoughts in a
way that better reflects the reality of the situation
4. Generate more helpful thoughts in to practice
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Identify Your
Thoughts
Habitual unrealistic thoughts
STEP
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• Automatic
• Distorted
• Unhelpful
• Involuntary28
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Awareness of an Object
Mindfulness
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Awareness of an Object
•Draw an object
•Pay attention to details
•Redraw & compare
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Attending to the Thinking Process
• To enhance awareness of how we are the
Mindfulness
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• To enhance awareness of how we are the
producers of our own thoughts
• Close your eyes and say to yourself, I wonder
what my next thought is going to be. Then
become very alert and wait for the next thought.
Be like a cat watching a mouse hole. What
thought is going to come out the mouse hole? Try
it now.
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Identify Your
Thoughts
Work
Backwards
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Use any feelings of anxiety, fear,
discomfort
•There must be some underlying
thought that caused the feeling
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Identify Your
Thoughts
How do I feel
What has been happening recently
Ask
yourself
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What has been happening recently
What do I think about myself
What do I think about the other person
What do I think about the situation?
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A situation where you over reacted
You felt uncomfortable/ panicky
Write down
Imagine
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Write down
A B C
Activating
event/ situation
Beliefs/
Thoughts
Consequences/
Feelings
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Challenge Your
Thoughts
What is the evidence
What alternative views are there
STEP
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What alternative views are there
How likely is it
How much would it really matter
Am I making errors of thinking
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Errors
of thinking!
Catastrophizing
Jumping to conclusions
Overgeneralization
All-or-none thinking
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Mind reading
Discounting or disqualifying
the positives
Mental filters or focusing on
the negative
The fortune teller
Personalization &
omnipotence
Should statements
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Based on what you have learned
Challenge your unhelpful/ negative thought/
beliefs/ assumptions
Challenge
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beliefs/ assumptions
A B C Challenging
Activating
event/
situation
Beliefs/
Thoughts
Consequences
/ Feelings
Alt., errors,
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Restating Your
Thoughts
Unhelpful/
unrealistic
•“I must..”
•I’ve got to
•What if…that
would be
unbearable
Wishful
•It’ll work out
•I don’t care
that
Realistic/
Helpful
•I would like
very much to
•I would prefer
not to
•I will do
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unbearable
•I could not
stand it if…
•I will do
everything I
can do
•If things don’t
go the way I
want, I might
be
disappointed
but I dno’t
have to be
overanxious or
depressed
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Generate
more helpful
thoughts in to practice
"Practice without Theory is
blind, Theory without
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blind, Theory without
practice is sterile"
•Karl Marx
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Watch this
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Go ahead!
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You are the
LEADER
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When the going
gets tough
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the tough keeps
going
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Thank
you
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Cognitive Behaviour Coaching For Young Leaders