Computer-based first-person behavioral change methodology
AssigneeCerebyte, Inc.
InventorsWilliam H. Seidman, Michael L. McCauley
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Abstract
A first-person, field-of-endeavor-associated method for transforming, toward positive deviance, a behavioral change-candidate's performance characteristics in that endeavor field, including (a) exposing a relevant prospective change-candidate to a positive-deviance script which is associated with the mentioned field of endeavor, and (b) in a computer-system-delivered, plural-stage series of verbally-based exercises, and using a pattern describable as “read, feedback, and adapt”, directing the change-candidate, via encouraged, self-first-person verbal expression, and related interaction with the computer system, transformably to embody and personify the positive-deviance script.
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A method for transforming, from outside of, to within, the realm of positive deviance behavior, the behavior of a non-positive-deviant person engaged in a selected field of endeavor comprising,
- treating such a person as a positive-deviance transformable, change-candidate,
- collecting, and distilling to an expressible, verbal change-model, a positive-deviance profile in the relevant, selected field,
- expressing the distillate change-model in the form of an intended, first-person, positive-deviance, model statement,
- presenting the model statement in a readable form to the change-candidate,
- in relation to said presenting, coaching and thereby guiding and encouraging the change-candidate (a) to read, out loud, the model statement, (b) thereafter to re-express it, out loud, in the change-candidate's own, first-person words, and (c) then to record appropriately, in the first person, those change-candidate words, and
- collectively, by said treating, collecting and distilling, expressing, presenting, coaching, encouraging and guiding, at least partially effecting in the change-candidate the intended, behavioral transformation.
A first-person, field-of-endeavor-associated method for transforming, toward positive deviance, a behavioral change-candidate's performance characteristics in that endeavor field, including
- exposing a relevant prospective change-candidate to a first-person positive-deviance script which is associated with the mentioned field of endeavor, and
- in a computer-system-delivered, plural-stage series of verbally-based exercises, directing the change-candidate, via encouraged, self-first-person verbal expression, and related interaction with the computer system, transformably to embody and personify the positive-deviance script.
A first-person, positive-deviance, behavioral change and transformation methodology associated with a particular field of endeavor, and aimed at transforming, toward positive deviance, selected behavioral characteristics of a change-candidate in that field, said methodology comprising
- presenting to the change-candidate a positive-deviance-sourced first-person script relevant to the field, and
- through prompting, and via prompted first-person, self-created expression originated by the change-candidate, promoting a transformation of the change-candidate into a person exhibiting an effective personification of the positive-deviant script source.
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