The fifth week Individual behaviour.

So how do you change behaviour? That is one of the things I’ve been wondering about for some time now. Because obviously, if you want to save the environment, you have to start changing behaviour.  Let’s look at behaviour change at the personal level.

 

(http://www.adultmeducation.com/FacilitatingBehaviorChange.html)

First, you start with Precontemplation. At this stage, “nothing” is wrong. You might hear people talking about change of behaviour and it might be something you ought to change, but you don’t feel like doing it.

Contemplation

Now, you start thinking about the things you want to (or need to) change. While thinking about that change, you might come to the conclusion that you really want to do it. But for now, you only think about it. Nothing more.

 

Preparation

Now you start preparing yourself for that change. What do you need to get there? What do you have to give up? Is it really worth it? And how are you going to work it through? So you think about strategies in order to achieve your change. And you decide to really do it.

 

Action

Now comes the work. You are really going for that change! By doing (or not doing) the things you were thinking of in the previous stage. Put your thoughts into actions. And keep doing the things needed for that change.

 

Maintenance

Now you’ve reached your goal, you’ve got to maintain were you are. This is very difficult, especially when relapses occur where you fall back into the “old habit”. The wisest (but not always easiest) thing to do is to pick up where you left off. Start anew. Keep your goal in mind. And when relapse occurs again, you just start over again. And wiser. Until you’ve reached true maintenance, where you’ve won the game and have really changed.

So how do we get a group or more persons to change?

If you want to change a group, you don’t need everyone. You just need to get a “critical mass” of individuals within the group to change and the rest will follow automatically. Because we all want to fit in and if a certain behaviour is seen as normal, we quickly adapt to it. When more and more people start to change, the rest will ask their selves: What’s in it for me? And if it means they have to change in order to belong, than this will trigger more change ( Group motivation). http://www.bdinstitute.org/

 

(http://www.danpontefract.com/to-really-drive-enterprise-2-0-forward-we-need-a-behaviour-change/)