Session One

How the Human Brain Works

Prediction Loops

Thoughts/Feelings/Values are Chemical/Electrical in Natre

Brain measures intensity; not values or emotions.

Brain Plasticity

How the Human Mind works

Our 'minds' sections or domains

Thinking (Cognative)

Affective (Feelings;  Values)

​Behavioral

Feelings

Feelings & Values are to experience and be discharged.  We experience difficulties when this does not occur.
 
Feelings are "Caused by the Holder"
​ not a situation or another person.
 

Values

A value is something or worth or importance to us.
They maybe tangible or intangible. 

Values do not have to be logical nor can they be defended by logic or thinking. One can be missing certain common values e.g. the value of human life, the value of independence.

One does not change a value directly by thinking. One changes a value by having a new experience repeatedly until one begins to value what comes with the experience.

There are different lists of core American values. 

Liberty; Self-government; Equality;
Individualism; Diversity;  Unity.

​or

Independence; Privacy; Directness; Equality; Informality; Competition; Time and Efficiency; Consumerism.

All cultures or societies have values that they translate into rules and expectations and require them as guidelines.

The errors of some "beliefs"!!

Attitudes

A settled way of thinking or feeling about someone or something, typically one that is reflected

​in a person's behavior.  Dictionary Online.

Attitudes are a result of the values one holds.

Attitudes are difficult to change. Change in attitudes does not come via thinking but does come

​if core or central values are changed.

 Paradigms

Perceptions

The 'significance' of our 'insignicances'

Session Two


​Your conscious/unconscious behavior
Our Perceptions & Biases Figure-ground principle

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Dangerous Dualism 
The Catsup/Ketchup Quandary.
Pat’s Perception
 
What Makes for a Rascal? 
 
Those Rascal Feelings and Values are
there to experience and be discharged.
​
Humans experience difficulties when this does not occur.
 
Feelings are "Caused by the Holder"
​ not a situation or another person.
 
Suggested Resources:
Games People Play
by Eric Berne.
 
How Emotions are Made
by Lisa Feldman Barrett
 
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Session Two:

Those Rascal Values/Paradigms
All can be Rascals. 
 
Negative Scorekeeping.
See Book One: Life's Rascals:
Communication Chapter Eight   Lenny's Legacy.
 
Examples from the World of Life Including Politics.

​Behavioral Silence & Passivity
 
See Life's Rascals. Book Three: Feelings and Values—Chapter Four: The Deadliness of Silence and Passivity-Aggressiveness.
Truisms: "We think we are thinking people and we are. However, very often, feelings overtake thoughts and values overtake feelings.

Session Three

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To Be Determined by Group Based

Consider:

 
Book Two: Life's Rascals: Change.
 
All things change; All things resist change.



Book Three

 
Time
 
 
Book Three: Chapter Eleven   Tick Tock. The Clock Rules. 


​***  Six Types of Time Usage and Relationships

 
Also view selected videos:
 
How Groups Make Decisions- Handout
 
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Mantras for 2020

 
New to You but Not to the World.

 
More Than Expected.
 
© Dr. D.’s Domains 2020

Change

Time

Relationships and Time


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Six Ways or Levels Where Humans Use Their Time

 This typology speaks to the way that people structure their time

or the six different levels on which people relate.


An extremely useful and potent list ​about time usage and relationship development.


​First developed by James and Joungward and published in their best selling book  "Born to Win".  

• Withdrawal
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• Ritual
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• Past-timing
• 
  
• Activity
• 
  
• Games
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• Intimacy
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​                                  Time as past, present, and future

​How individuals and/or groups make decisions.