Steven Hayes' "The Liberated Mind" offers a comprehensive guide to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). It explores the nature of psychological suffering and introduces practical techniques to manage difficult emotions and thoughts. The book emphasizes the importance of accepting inner experiences rather than fighting them, and it guides readers toward living a more values-driven life. Hayes draws on his extensive clinical experience to illustrate ACT principles and provide actionable strategies for personal growth. The book is widely regarded as a seminal work in the field of ACT and has helped countless individuals improve their mental well-being.
In this week’s podcast, we explore how pro-social principles and tools can help groups collaborate more effectively together by creating safe spaces, to be honest about what they want, what they fear, and how this shapes the way they choose to work together.
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You’ll Learn:
- [02:32] - Paul explains why collaborating with each other is often challenging at work.
- [04:18] - Paul shares why we often struggle to appreciate the differences in each other.
- [05:40] - Paul outlines the prosocial process and how it might help us to collaborate better with each other.
- [07:48] - Paul outlines the eight-core design principles that guide the prosocial process.
- [16:58] - Paul shares an example of how the prosocial principals and tools can be applied in workplaces.
- [23:36] - Paul offers some simple questions we can use to help create more prosocial ways of working together.
- [27:45] - Paul offers some tips for dysfunctional teams to become more prosocial and collaborate better together.
- [30:26] - Paul enters the lightning round
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