Jo Sherring is an occupational therapist and mental health clinician who is the managing director of The Maya Academy. The document discusses various factors that influence motivation such as interest, discomfort, hope, vision, belief in values, control, and intuition capacity. It provides commentary on each factor and how to help clients overcome barriers to enacting desired changes. The Maya Academy provides free videos, commentaries, posters, and tools and will soon offer courses to help break down walls and facilitate motivation.

1. Jo Sherring

2. • Occupational Therapist
• Mental Health Clinician
• Managing Director of
The Maya Academy

3. The strength of a desire
(cognitive)

4. Enacting the desire
(behavioural)

5. Motivation
(cognitive)
We only see
Motivated
behaviour
(behavioural)

6. Interest
Discomfort
Hope Vision
Belief in
Values
Control
Intuition capacity

7. Seems obvious!
interested

8. High or low interest?
Introjected interest?
(expectations, pressure, societal
norms)
Compliance?
Complacency (people going along
with things because they can’t be
bothered)

9. hope
How sophisticated is our
understanding of hope?

10. Narrative
Resigned to circumstances
Contextual barriers eg. discrimination,
stigma, race, poverty, war, disability,
culture etc.
Hopelessness if often totally rational

11. vision

12. Can visualise life once the change
is implemented
Process not an outcome
Can visualise the steps they will
take

13. capacity

14. Skills
Strengths
Resources – emotional energy
Supports – you, family, friends

15. value

16. 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?

17. intuition

18. 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

19. control

20. *Autonomy is one of the MOST
important concepts in motivation
*Read up on Self Determination
Theory (Ryan & Deci)
*Extrinsic motivators DECREASE
intrinsic motivation

21. tolerate the discomfort

22. *Relates back to values
*Anxiety, grief, loss

23. Helping break down
the wall
-Videos
-Commentaries
-Posters
-Tools
-Courses (soon!)
Most things free…
www.themayaacademy.com.au

25. jo@themayaacademy.com.au
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