Richard Boyatzis, PhD
Creating Lasting Personal Growth and Change
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What You'll Learn
Learn the 5 steps of Richard’s “Intentional Change Theory” and understand how they can support you in seeing lasting changes in your personal growth
Understand why being motivated by your “sense of calling” activates neural networks that increase your openness to new experiences and change, while “setting goals” can activate neural networks that actually close you down to new information
Hear Richard’s insights into why “caring relationships” are essential for personal growth and how you can create your own “personal board of directors”
About Richard Boyatzis, PhD
About Daniel Goleman, PhD
You can learn more about Dr. Goleman's work on his website.
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Very helpful–thanks!
Enjoyable, lots of info that is hard to remember, perhaps writing the imp parts would help. Invigorating! Hopeful! Insightful!
yes…i will listen again and write down a lot of the stuff he explains!!!
Watching you guys and listening from Buenos Aires. Thank you. Much needed words, thoughts and new ways to feel and be better during hard times.
Looks very interesting. Always curious about others’ enumerated steps to change, fascinating to see “sense of calling” vs “goal setting” effects on neural networks and consequences. Goingvto listen now.
Bety useful ando generous. Thanks you!
I enjoyed seeing Richard highlighting the difference between goals and dreams. To me, it appears that the former is more based on extrinsic motivations while the latter (passions/visions/values etc) on intrinsic motivations. The key could be identifying each type deciding the time required to be spent on each.
Enjoy this fresh presentation, practical and useful. Open mi mental set to try (from now on), on how to make more meaningful questions. I am curious to learn more about results of Richard results of his long research. Thanks to share them to us!
Thank you both Daniel and Richard very much for the inspiring conversation. Specially appreciated are the practical and encouraging suggestions. As a professional (intercultural & business) coach two thoughts I do take away to reflect further on: ‘compassionate coaching’ and the statement that task orientation is hindering the ability for human connection. May you be both well, at ease and in peace, namaste.
Following from Europe – Greece
I listen twice with deep interest to Richard and Daniel’s conversation. I had write down as I listened to many prompts and possibilities to pursue. One in particular is the practice of connecting with personal dreams – which I had also heard in a retreat session on loving kindness and compassion with Alan Wallace. As an educator, and parent of a teenager, I am going to talk about ‘dreams’ or ‘passions’ as preferred to goal setting with my young students and will also try my edgy teen. In the past, I had tried goal setting with children which we are asked to do but is so abstract and quite confusing for them… What we often do do is talk about their dreams/visions /passions which always ends with engaging and creative expressions, conversations & thinking. Thank-you so much for this session and the summit.
Wonderful to learn about the 5 discoveries for sustainable change and the idea of Positive Emotional Attractors (personalised)
Very helpful
Incredibly inspiring and resourceful! Thank you so much for the knowledge and wisdom!
I am extremely impressed by the talk of Richard being together with Daniel Goleman. Most inspiring and touching. Thank you so much!!!
Watching nearly every section. Fantastic stuff! Thank you very much!
Wonderful…I am sharing it with everyone…students, friends, acquaintances 🤗🙏
Thank you!
Xcellent!!!
Ir works in cascades. Now at 86yre, I am dreaming my red carpet into the n e x t p h a s e.
Yes.
Dan and Richard, warm greetings from Annie McKee and Fran Johnston’s colleague in Cape Town…….your work and your words have been with me daily in my work since Annie and Fran introduced me to EI in 2005. Thank you! And it’s just lovely to hear you talk in such a caring way about how your research helps us all to understand how we change our selves and the world. With great appreciation…
What great team work between the presenter (Richard) and the host (Daniel). They complimented each other and enhanced the sharing/discussion in so many ways. I have been left with a lot of reflection on the Five Discoveries and how they can work together helping me and those with whom I come into contact. Thank you.
Great talk. I really enjoyed hearing about the ways to connect with others that are healing and positive. One comment about language, Richard used the phrase ‘drug addicts’- it hit me a certain way. I wonder if being someone with a positive approach, the wording could be people that use substances. thank you!
“Who helped you the most in your life?” Very beautifully asked. Tq so much! Metta.
I have found this talk very helpful and charming… Thankyou!
Awesome talk
Love this model
From Jill in South Africa
Absolutely excellent. Simple, clear steps to a better daily life. Thank you Richard
Ali
Brighton, UK
Excellent discussion between two caring and brilliant men. I listened to it twice! Thanks from Halifax Nova Scotia.
Amazing. Thank you.
practical steps
David
Bruce Peninsula, Canada
Wow, thank you so much!
So much kindness and love here.
Very grateful!
Thank you so much for this wonderful gift. You both explained complex concepts and years of research studies through simple words and this made the talk accessible for us all. Thank you for the amazing work you have been doing in these years and for sharing it with us. Ciao from Vicenza, Italy
Inspirational talk, thank you… I am going to research your book, helping people change.
Very rich and useful! Thank you much!
WE could all benefit from learning to ask better questions of each other. The social and emotional learning that could come from this is enormous. As a barber for the past 55 years, I can attest to the value of asking and sharing life experiences. We have all become close extended family over the years, I would never even think of “retiring” from such familiar connections. When asked, in my senior year of high school, what I wanted to be, I remember answering, a smart barber. I have lived the dream!
Exceptionally enriching conversation !! The five discoveries so wonderfully explained.
Thank You.
amazing! Thank you.
Funny that I knew this in a unconscious state but I tried as an adult to be analytical.
So glad to hear this now, to see clearly were I was right and to be able to turn back to the way I feel satisfied and compassionate ant that this can work.
Very grateful . . .
Very inpiringg – thank you!
This feels a lot like motivational interviewing.
I”m feeling really gratefull for the oportunity to listen to so many enlighten people. Thank you all.
Wonderful thank you
I’ll rush with my comment ’cause I don’t want to miss any of these great and experienced scientists who are doing their best to try and help people around the world. Each one of you have been wonderfully clear and precise in your sometimes -not easy-to-explain- topics…specially for Western people, I mean people in this side of the world. Thank you so much! The experts from Tibet are wonderful people as well, so profoundly expressive in their words!Thank you all, from Santiago, Chile.
a gift of wisdom. Thank you
I really appreciated this information, and the dialog we got to learn from. I’ll definitely be investigating more, as change is always a theme I contemplate 🤔
I wonder about Richard’s model, and whether it accounts for the world that’s more complex than how we may have viewed it decades ago. The model seems to reify the status quo, the ‘me first’ model vs. a model of self within a complex culture, where not all of us know how to reach for feedback OUTSIDE our circles, and adapt to more complex cultural contexts now.
Amazing 🙂
An awesome conversation about “Creating Lasting Personal Growth and Change”. Very helpful.
Thank you, Dr. Richard Boyatzis, and Dr. Daniel Goleman.
I found this session the most helpful of the series. Deep yet simple and doable. Am looking forward to reading the book. Thank you from Israel.
Loved it and am so grateful. It was wonderful hearing all of it in one session… after achieving the certificate via Coursera this year, both in Leading Positive Change through Appreciative Inquiry and Conversations that Inspire (Coaching Learning Leadership & Change). I actively use intentional change theory (ICT) and every time I read or listen to Richard Boyatzis on the topic, I gain new inspiration and insight. Also a follower of much of the work he does with Daniel Goleman, it’s the first time I got to experience them interacting. My major takeaway is the reminder for the regular renewal breaks in a day as well as to practice one thing… I will be practicing asking these questions at least once a day.
I look forward to reading their latest work, the article on Survive & Thrive.
Love this presentation. I am a grateful member of the Worldwide Fellowship of Al-Anon and AlAteen for 11 years.
What you have described as results of the studies is so in line with what I have experienced as person in recovery using the 12 Steps of AA, which have been adapted for the Al-Anon program. I have made many positive changes, changed the circuitry of my thinking and sustain this change by “practicing the principles of Al-Anon in all my affairs” in my life.
I love the idea of building and connecting with dreams for my future, rather than goals, and the benefits.
Thank you so much for this entire summit. It has been so informative and inspiring. I have shared it with many friends. You have all made it so clear to understand in layman’s terms. I am not a Psychologist. Yet, I understood all material presented. This summit has been such a gift and a blessing during very difficult times. Thank you all. I wish you all loving kindness.
From Setauket, NY