Moving Beyond Procrastination To Action

Course overview

This 6 CEU seminar will begin by identifying and challenging myths regarding motivation, goal attainment, and productivity. Clinicians will learn how to create an individualized plan for identifying and addressing the ends and motivating factors of clients who struggle to follow through on tasks. The emphasis will be on strategies for building executive functioning skills including developing emotional regulation skills, realistic goal planning, improving follow through, time management, stress and anxiety reduction, and improved decision making regarding what factors are most important to attend to. In addition clinicians will learn to apply principles of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to develop values based committed actions. Finally, participants will be taught how to move clients beyond problem saturated narratives of procrastination to intentional follow through on tasks.