Audio gold on being a Behaviour Specialist
Tanya Curtis has been known to many as an expert with understanding and supporting people to change their non-preferred behaviours. Many would say she is so good and understanding others that she knows more about why the behaviour is occurring than they are aware of.
So what makes Tanya tick? How does she do it? What are the keys to knowing so much about our behaviour and how to change it?
The truth is, that it is all rather simple. Tanya does not know any more about our behaviour than we do, its simply that she does not see us as the behaviour but the awesome, amazing lovable being we innately are. A fact that many of us tend to overlook when we are trying to change our behaviours, instead seeing us as the behaviour!
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Lasting Behaviour Change With Tanya Curtis
Have you ever tried changing an unwanted behaviour, set new year's resolutions or outwardly claimed that you will never do something again, only to eventually slip back into our old ways and repeat the unwanted behaviours again? With such experiences we would say that behaviour change is indeed difficult and only workable with a lot of effort. But could true and lasting behaviour change actually be very very simple and much easier and more practical than we realise?
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Body Life Skills within a Family - Pracitical Example
A practical and simple example of how The Body Life Skills program can support in a family environment and ask people to take more responsibility for their unwanted behaviours
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Bullying Comes from not Feeling Equipped to Handle Life
People bully often because they don't feel equipping with the skills to handle the circumstances life has placed before them. The bully is no different to their chosen target, they just have a different way of expressing their inner insecurities.
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Honesty Without Judgement is the Key to Understanding Unwanted Behaviour
If we point the finger and another and blame them for their behaviours we are never going to allow them the space to truly heal why these unwanted behaviours are occurring in the first place
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Identifying People as their Behaviours Prevents True Healing
In the labeling of a person as their behaviour we are no longer addressing the behaviours that are going on for that person
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We are Human Beings not Human Doings
A person is not their behaviour and this is a crucial understanding to have if we are ever going to truly change our unwanted behaviours
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We Avoid Responsibility
Could one of the reasons unwanted behaviour is so prevalent in society today is because we avoid wanting to take responsibility for the hurts we carry in life?
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What is Bullying?
Could bullying be more than just victim and bully? Is there more going on here than meets the eye? And what if bullying occurs more than we are willing to realise?.
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Rules, Pictures and Smashed Pictures
Behaviour Specialist Tanya Curtis explains how 'rules', 'pictures' and 'smashed pictures' impact on our lives, and how becoming familiar with these is a very important step towards understanding our own and other people's behaviour.
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Perfectionism and Issues with Winning and Losing
Tanya Curtis explains how Fabic’s Body Life Skills program can be applied to children and adults whose lives are being affected by perfectionism and issues with winning and losing to support true and lasting behaviour change.
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Dealing with Extreme Behaviours - A Case Study
Behaviour Specialist Tanya Curtis shares a beautiful case study of a 7 year old boy that shows the power of meeting your client for who they are and not identifying a person with their behaviours.
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Seeing People for the Awesome, Amazing, Loveable Being that They Are
In this interview, Behaviour Specialist Tanya Curtis presents the importance of seeing people for the Awesome, Amazing and Loveable being that they naturally are. Too often in society people get defined and labeled by their behaviours… a perfect example is a person who is labeled as an alcoholic or an addict… (many carry these labels for life) but this is not actually who they are, and understanding this may just be a very important key to unlocking true and lasting behaviour change.
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The Importance of Holding Myself Equal to My Clients
Behaviour Specialist Tanya Curtis questions the rising rates of ill mental health in our society and shares the importance of walking your talk as a mental health professional and seeing yourself as both a teacher and a student in life
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The Behaviour Scale and Cycles of Medication
Tanya Curtis explains The Behaviour Scale (also known as the 'Anxiety Scale'): a simple and practical tool that supports all clients at Fabic Behaviour Specialist Centre. In this audio Tanya also looks deeper into mental health conditions and the cycle of medication.
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The Difference Between Seeking Relief and Addressing the Root Cause
Behaviour specialist Tanya Curtis explains the difference between seeking relief from symptoms and addressing the root cause behind our unwanted behaviours.
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What are Unwanted Behaviours?
Tanya Curtis' work is dedicated to supporting children, teenagers and adults to understand and change their unwanted behaviours... But what exactly is an unwanted behaviour?
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What Is A Behaviour Specialist?
Tanya Curtis describes her work and qualification as a Behaviour Specialist and shares how this approach differs to psychology.
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Body Life Skills
Behaviour Specialist Tanya Curtis describes the Body Life Skills program, a simple yet powerful 3-step process to understanding and changing behaviour. Based on the principles of Functional Behaviour Assessment, Body Life Skills is supporting lasting behaviour change in people of all ages.
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Where Does Anxiety Come From?
Is anxiety something that just happens or is it something we have complete control over through our choices of how we choose to live? This short clip by Fabic Behaviour Specialist Tanya Curtis explores the real roots of our anxiety and offers great insight into how we may be able to deal with it in our daily lives.
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What is Depression?
Depression is on the rise in spite of our modern day technology and comforts of most peoples modern day lives. It is a very real issue that we should all pay close attention to as it reveals how many of us choose to live when in spite of everything we generally have we feel depressed. Could it be that depression is from our exhaustion and our undelt with hurts? Fabic Behaviour Specialist Tanya Curtis explores this in great detail and reveals where depression truly comes from
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Seeking Relief From Life
Fabic Behaviour Specialist Tanya Curtis shares how most people are not dealing with their loses and instead finding relief from life to offer a false sense that everything is OK when underneath it really is not.
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Smashed Pictures
How do our losses come to play out the way they do? Where does the hurts we carry inevitably come from? Is there more to life than what we often conceive it to be? Fabic Behaviour Specialist Tanya Curtis explores the notion of smashed pictures which are basically images we carry about what we think life should be like that are not met or do not come to play in reality as we initially envisaged they might. Perhaps it is our false perceptions of life that are actually laying the seeds down for failure. Hence the importance of honesty and truth.
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Recognising Our Strengths And Weaknesses
Recognising the areas of life we are naturally strong with and those areas we are not so good with are super important in helping support us all to develop the skills to deal with life.
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Control vs Self-Mastery
Where does our control come from and are we aware of how much we may be trying to control life? As Fabic Behaviour Specialist Tanya Curtis presents, the only way to ensure a true quality of well-being is through self-mastery and not control
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Our Sensitivity To Life
Could it be that our behaviours are influenced our sensitivity to our environment? Generally in society we are far less honouring of how we are truly feeling and what can prompt a person to behave in an undesirable way is actually our sensitivities to the world around us.
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Never Judge Another's Behaviour
Judging another's behaviours never supports them to be closer to who they really are, it only caps them, and holds them as wrong in the behaviour they are currently exhibiting. Yet, we do this a lot, especially as parents. Is there another way to offer behaviour change and support another to be who they really are?
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Building Trust Through Consistency
How often do we say we will one thing and then do something completely different such as saying we will be home at 4 and then not arrive home till after 5? The impact that this has on our relationships with others especially our children is huge and can often lead them to developing that exact same behaviour later in life.
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Creating Images About Life
Our perceptions of life and how it 'should' be or how we 'need' it to be are the very things that set us up to have what Fabic Behaviour Specialist Tanya Curtis terms as "smashed pictures" - a reality of life that did not live up to the image or perception we had placed on it to be. These smashed pictures create our hurts and our losses.
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Our Body Communicating To Us
The way we are handling life is communicated through our bodies. If we are not dealing so well with what life presents to us, our behaviours reflect that we do not perceive we have the skills to deal with it.
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What Is The Difference Between Seeking Relief And Seeking A True Healing
Fabic's Behaviour Specialist explains what it means to truly heal our hurts and issues rather than simply seeking a relief for them
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What Makes The Methodology Of Fabic So Unique
Fabic's Tanya Curtis explains what makes a clients experience of Fabic is unique to other Mental Health Facilities & how it supports people to truly heal.
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What Is A Client's Overall Experience At Fabic
Fabic's Tanya Curtis shares how people are met for who they truly are and therefore understood and not judged for the behaviour's that they have. In this, the client is allowed the space to actually heal through understanding for themselves what they are experiencing.
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What Makes The Experience of Fabic So Different
Fabic's Tanya Curtis explains what makes the experience of Fabic so very different to most other mental health organisations.
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What is an Unwanted Behaviour?
Tanya Curtis explains the meaning of 'unwanted behaviours' and highlights why understanding others is so important when it comes to true behaviour change.
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