Open Up Your Perceptions and Beliefs to Facilitate Change

Confidence & Self-AwarenessChange & AdaptationAll employees≈ 20 min

Key skill: Mindset & discernment towards AI

Summary

Question your limiting beliefs to reduce stress and conflict at work. Byron Katie's Work method — four questions and a turnaround — helps you change how you see a situation, yourself, and others.

Target audience

Anyone who wants to promote a model of collaboration that inspires, encourages self-questioning, and builds accountability.

Learning objectives

Sort out which beliefs make our work easier and which make it harder.
Change how you view a situation or person to reduce stress.
Recognize that our thoughts and beliefs are the source of our negative emotions.
Understand that our emotions follow our judgments and beliefs.

Module outline

StorytellingAn exploration of how beliefs affect wellbeing at work, through Tom and Kim's stories
ArticlesLimiting beliefs vs. helpful beliefs · The 3 perception filters method: Selection, Distortion, Generalization · Byron Katie's Work method: a practical example
Expert videoAn introduction to the 4 questions and the turnaround that upend our belief system
AnchoringA quiz and True/False questions to dig deeper and lock in what you've learned
Memo cardA downloadable coaching memo card: the key takeaways from the expert video
CommitmentConcrete examples to help you define your own commitment
BonusA selection of videos to go further (TED, YouTube)

Models & methods

Byron Katie's Work method (4 questions and a turnaround); distinction between limiting beliefs and helpful beliefs.

Research-based

The Work method, formalized by Byron Katie in her book Loving What Is.