Coping With Change
The questions listed below are designed to help you break the mold of resistance and gain a more realistic and proactive approach to change. These same questions can be adapted to a group discussion.
- What am I telling myself about the change? What do I fear losing? What are we telling ourselves about the change? What do we fear losing?
- Is it really true? Is everything I’ve/We’ve heard or said about this change accurate? (Just because you believe it doesn’t necessarily make it true). How much valid evidence is there to support my/our automatic thoughts and the accuracy of my/our beliefs?
- Assuming that what I/we believe is true and the evidence supports the accuracy of my/our beliefs, how realistic are the consequences of this change? What’s the probability (based on evidence) of these implications coming to pass?
- What are the alternative ways to interpret this change?
- What do I/we really want from this change? What would I/we like to see happen?
- Based on what I/we want to gain from this change, what can I/we influence? What can I/we control?
- What initial steps can I/we take to gain what I/we want?
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