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Challenge your Beliefs

Depth · what it can open●●○○2 — reflective
Holding · facilitation2 — facilitator
Trust · group readiness★any
Disclosure · what is sharedoptional

Participants surface limiting beliefs about change — "I have no influence anyway" — and actively transform them into empowering ones, working collectively and in pairs on how such beliefs constrain what people even attempt.

Practical

Time
60 min
Group
12–20 · pairs, small-group
Settings
in-person, online
Materials
Slides, paper, pens; U-shape seating
Mechanisms
cognitive-reframing, dialogic-encounter
Change scope
state → skill · repeatable

Instructions

Where
transitionmakers.nl/tool/challenge-your-beliefs — Transition Makers Toolbox, open
Availability
Open online — published at the link, free to read
Licence
CC BY 4.0 per the Transition Makers footer; its badge links CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 — variant unresolved, see source record

Source link checked 29 Aug 2026 — unchanged since we recorded it on 28 Aug 2026

This directory describes and points home; the instructions stay with the people who made them.

Origin

Hedwig Boer & Miranda Trippenzee (with Margreet Smit), Transition Makers Toolbox (IIS UvA) — Cognitive reframing / hope theory

In this directory via Transition Makers Toolbox

Related: Talking with Pixies (alternative-to)

status: checked · added 2026-08-25