Aim 1. Illustrate that values can change and evolve through time in the context of a transcendent self. |
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Practicing the “autobiography of dreams exercise.” This exercise explores how values evolved throughout a person's life and explore events of success and failure (Audio 7)
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Exploring in detail two of the participant's values by answering why they are important, how moving towards and away from these valued directions makes him or her feel, and what opportunities of advancing towards them the person has lost (Activity 11)
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Aim 2. Exploring the long-term consequences of rigidly engaging in RNT versus behaving with flexibility towards the own values. |
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Aim 3. Establishing goals and objectives that permit advance towards own values. |
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Illustrating the importance of establishing value-related goals to advance towards the own values (Video 13)
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Establishing realistic, concrete, and verifiable medium-term goals related to the participants' values (Activity 12)
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Aim 4. Exploring time management and establishing specific daily activities towards values. |
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Illustrating how engaging in RNT impedes engaging in valued behaviors in daily life related to the established goals and objectives (Video 14)
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Analyzing in detail the participant's daily activities during a business day and a weekend day to help him or her to realize how is he or she managing time and under which function is his or her behavior at those times (Activity 13)
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Aim 5. Identifying the psychological barriers to advancing toward values and establishing an agenda for several days focused on advancing towards previously defined goals. |
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Illustrating psychological barriers (i.e., aversive private events that may arise when advancing toward values) and how the person can react to them (Video 15)
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Identifying the participant's psychological barriers when they begin to move towards values in daily life (Activity 14)
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Planning daily activities by focusing on what is the goal of each activity, what barriers may arise when moving towards values, and what could they do to keep going even in their presence (Activity 15)
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Aim 6. Summarizing the main contents of the program. |
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