The Cycle Of Change
The Cycle Of Change – Step 3
Cycle Of Change
It is important to get a sense of what your Change journey looks like to further help you navigate your way through the process of putting change in place.
The following Cycle of Change diagram demonstrates the Five significant steps through to succeeding in making change in our lives.
The Five stages of change are:
Precontemplation
Not yet acknowledging that there is a problem behavior that needs to be changed
Contemplation
Acknowledging that there is a problem but not yet ready or sure of wanting to make a change
Planning/Determination
Getting ready to change
Action/Willpower
Changing behavior
Maintenance
Maintaining the behavior change
Relapse
Returning to older behaviour’s and abandoning the new changes
Cycle Of Change 2
At Impact, we see the word of ‘Relapse’ to mean a ‘Wobble’ or a ‘Blip‘ We also see this moment as an opportunity to learn what we can do differently at the planning stage.
The transtheoretical model of behaviour change assesses an individual’s readiness to act on a new healthier behavior, and provides strategies, or processes of change to guide the individual through the stages of change to Action and Maintenance.
*Prochaska and DiClemente 1982 Cycle of Change Model
Transtheroretical Therapy