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Adapting Response Patterns
Depth · what it can open●●●○3 — emotional
Holding · facilitation2 — facilitator
Trust · group readiness★★some
Disclosure · what is sharedoptional
Using Albert Ellis's ABC model (Activating event – Belief – Consequence), participants analyse their own automatic, self-sabotaging reactions under pressure, identify the unhelpful beliefs driving them, and design and practise alternative responses aligned with who they mean to be.
Hold with care
- Examining one's own sabotage patterns borders therapy territory — keep cases work-related and self-chosen, and don't analyze anyone else's beliefs
Practical
- Time
- 90-120 min
- Group
- 4–20 · small-group
- Settings
- in-person, online
- Materials
- ABC worksheets
- Mechanisms
- cognitive-reframing, emotional-processing, behavioral-rehearsal
- Change scope
- skill · repeatable
Origin & where it lives
Transition Makers Toolbox (IIS UvA), on Albert Ellis's REBT ABC model; team adaptation by Thomas Jordan — Rational-emotive behavioral tradition
Instructions: open online
In this directory via Transition Makers Toolbox · Thomas Jordan's IDG Resource Library
Related: immunity to change (alternative-to)
status: checked · added 2026-08-25