Syllabus “INVEST” Level 1

PART 1: Understanding our brain & Behavior 

Section 1 : The Central Ideas of Self-Awareness and growth 

  1. Introduction to the Course
  2. Introducing the Wise Mind
  3. Albert Ellis’ Barriers to Effective Listening
  4. The Levels of Growth &Development in Life Part 1
  5. Connecting Thoughts, Emotions & Behaviour
  6. Understanding Destructive Behaviours
  7. Quiz 1 : The Perception Quiz (How we see things differently)

Section 2 : How the mind works ( irrational thinking)

  1. Why We Think, Feel & Act How We Do
  2. We ALL Think Irrationally, Including YOU!
  3. RATIONAL: Irrational vs Rational Beliefs
  4. EMOTIVE: Unhealthy vs Healthy Negative Emotions PPT
  5. BEHAVIORAL: Unconstructive vs Constructive Behavior
  6. Intellectual vs Emotive Understanding
  7. 3 Levels of Thinking

Section 3: Emotional Disturbances and irrational beliefs

  1. Playing By the Rules: 3 Core Beliefs
  2. 2 Types of Emotional Disturbances
  3. Evaluative Thinking: 4 Dysfunctional Ways We Assign Meaning
  4. Must #1: Approval (I must be approved of by others to be worthy.)
  5. Must #2: Judgment (Others must do “the right thing” and meet my expectations) 6. Must #3: Comfort (Life must be easy, without discomfort or inconvenience.)

Section 4 : Changing Your Perspective (Interference)

  1. The Power of Perspective
  2. Reframing Negative Situations
  3. Positive Thinking and Affirmations

Section 5 : Changing Underlying Beliefs

  1. Challenging Irrational Core Beliefs
  2. Changing Negative Beliefs into Positive Ones

Section 6 : Wise Decision the foundations

  1. Fear: The Sabotage of Our Best Intentions
  2. Schwart’s Theory of Basic Human Values
  3. Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
  4. The Adapted Version of Maslow’s Hierarchy

Section 7 : Belief Development and Modification

  1. Aaron Beck’s Cognitive Conceptualization
  2. The Three Realms of Confidence
  3. Metaphor: The Development of Belief
  4. The Mistaken Beliefs Workbook
  5. The Stages of Belief Development
  6. An Overview of Classical Conditioning
  7. An Overview of Operant Conditioning
  8. Everyday Examples of Operant Conditioning (Article)
  9. The Timeline of Belief Development: Part 1
  10. The Timeline of Belief Development: Part 2
  11. Sourcing Limiting Beliefs: Demonstration Set-Up
  12. Sourcing Limiting Beliefs: Demonstration Part 1
  13. Sourcing Limiting Beliefs: Demonstration Part 2

PART 2: How our body response to what happening to us 

  1. Conscious, Subconscious, & Unconscious Mind.
  2. Wheel of emotions
  3. Libet experiment
  4. Mind Body Connection
  5. Connection between thoughts and emotions and energy and physical disease 6. PERMA
  6. Yin Yang Qi
  7. Between psychology and Oriental Philosophy
  8. Sympathetic and parasympathetic system
  9. Vagus Nerve
  10. 3 Brains: Head / Heart / Gut
  11. Resilience
  12. Brain Lobes
  13. The role of Amygdala
  14. Brain waves
  15. Mindfulness meditation

PART 3: Understanding the TRAUMA

  1. Tauma : what it is and how our body assimilated it
  2. The 3 E’s of Trauma and the basic truth
  3. The PTSD understanding the after trauma symptoms and body resorption of it 4. Trauma recovery Tips; Self regulation technique and treatments
  4. Emotional regulation patterns
  5. Phase of trauma recovery

PART 4: Understanding the different treatment of the TRAUMA 

  1. Meditation

(Transcendental, Loving-kindness, Mindfulness)

  1. Meridian-based psychotherapies : EFT.
  2. Somatic Experiencing Therapy
  3. Tension & trauma releasing exercise
  4. Trauma focused CBT (TF-CBT)
  5. Dual Awareness technique