Wholistic psychology represents a model for enhancing and developing personal change, that brings together the Ten areas of Health and Wellness, utilizing concepts of:

• Profiling
• Representational systems
• Studying experience
• Frequency, intensity, duration
• Past, present, and future
• Generative development
• Mind, body, brain systems

Wholistic Psychology forms a context for identifying techniques and creates a framework for organizing and gathering knowledge and information about personality in order to identify the best intervention, when to intervene and the establishment of the goal of the desired change.

To create change requires information and knowledge, and we call this initially the present state.  There are signs and symptoms which might maintain a problem state.  We need to know the state of this present state.  There will also be a desired state, an outcome, the goal of the change.  In between these states lies the heroic journey of seven stages – realizing, analyzing, strategizing, organizing, optimizing, containerizing and equalizing.  To make the journey a person needs to put their strengths to work.  Wholistic psychology is a psychology of the strengths movement.  To be effective and to move from present state to desired state means building on strengths – building on the strengths of the situation.

Most psychology is only about half the story – mental illness, personality problems, and the “fix the damage” approach.  Wholistic psychology is also about the other sides, the sides of strengths, what we are capable of (confidence and competence), and the side of potential and initiative.  Wholistic psychology is, therefore, a positive psychology.

Wholistic psychology is about freeing yourself and stepping into the first stage of the heroic journey.  It is about finding out about your most effective resources and applying them to achieve the desired state being sought.  To do this we need to believe, identify resources, learn to play the mind, body, brain machine, overcome weaknesses, communicate, and build strong, positive workable habits.

Do you know anyone who is passionate about their life and work and who seem to spend much of their time engaged in doing the things they really like doing?

These people are playing to their strengths.  Which activities in the past month did you specifically find yourself doing the same?  What were you doing?

Can you find any tell tale signs of strengths in the activities you engaged in during the past month?  How did you make this happen?  What activities in particular made you feel strong, healthy and well?