Watch the David and Jill FB Show
this Sunday, July 29th, 2018, 3 PM Pacific Time
I hope you can join Dr. Jill Levitt and me live this Sunday for Part 2 of our Shouldy Show! The response to Part 1 last Sunday was outstanding, and I hope you can join us again. If you attend live, you can ask questions and be a part of the show. However, all the shows are recorded so you can tune in anytime on my Public FB page!
Dr. Levitt is Director of Clinical Training at the Feeling Good institute in Mt. View, California. She is a co-director of my weekly psychotherapy training group at Stanford, and is absolutely superb. In addition, when we work together, the chemistry can be pure magic. The photo below was at our recent Sunday workshop on Advanced TEAM-CBT techniques.
On the show on Sunday, Jill and I will illustrate several powerful techniques for zapping your Should Statements, including those you direct against yourself as well as those you direct against other people you feel annoyed with.
Here’s the agenda Sunday:
Outline for the Shouldy Show, Part 2*
with David and Jill
- Brief summary of last week’s FB Show (Part 1 on Shoulds) and goals for today’s show
- Typical Self-Directed Should Statements (with interactions with our live audience)
- I should be a better mother (or father, or therapist, etc).
- I should not judge people who make racist, sexist, or gay-bashing comments. I should try to have empathy for them. I should not dislike them.
- I should be the best at everything I do,
- I shouldn’t make mistakes.
- I shouldn’t need help for my anxiety.
- I should be a perfect mother.
- I should never snap at my children.
- I should find time to exercise.
- I should not be so shy!
- I shouldn’t be ashamed of my son.
- I should have known my patient was feeling suicidal / homicidal.
What are yours?
- Typical Other-Directed Should Statements (with interactions with our live audience)
- That driver shouldn’t cut in front of me in line!
- People should be more tolerant!
- People shouldn’t be so stupid!
- People shouldn’t support this (or that) political candidate. They should see what a loser she (or he) is.
- So and so shouldn’t complain all the time!
- My patient should do his (or her) psychotherapy homework.
- My patient shouldn’t be so resistant, oppositional, and irrational!
- My husband (wife, partner, etc.) shouldn’t be so critical / stubborn / demanding.
What are yours?
- Techniques to defeat Self- Directed Shoulds and Other-Directed Shoulds (with role-play demonstrations between David and Jill)
- Identify the Distortions (since the thought will have many distortions)
- Positive Reframing
- Semantic Method
- Externalization of Voices / Acceptance Paradox
- Paradoxical Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Examine the Evidence (Ellis)
- Double Standard Technique
- Q and A
- Announcements:
- Upcoming Intensive
- New schedule for FB Show with next date announced
* Copyright © 2018 by David D. Burns, MD
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