​Motivation is a complex, misunderstood, and often elusive state of physiological readiness to initiate task-based demands that we would tend to avoid, which are often academic or professional expectations. Resistance, or the opposite of motivation, is a meaningful signal that something is not meeting our needs, either within the external social context or our internal neuroceptive and nervous systems. The ability to initiate tasks not only requires executive functioning skills, it also requires the ability to somatically attune to our bodymind and mobilize our Autonomic Nervous System to a state of physiological readiness. At Colorado Coherence Collective, we refer to this practice of maximizing openness and minimizing resistance within the bodymind as "Mobilizing Motivation". Read more about Executive Functioning Skills and Mobilizing Motivation. 

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Mobilizing Motivation: Executive Functioning Coaching is designed to support adults, young adults, and teens with executive functioning challenges to gain a deeper understanding of their strengths and needs related to motivational style, neuroceptive and nervous system responses, and executive functioning skills. Learning about these topics independently can be helpful to increase awareness, but meaningful lifestyle change most often occurs when this knowledge is paired with nonjudgemental self-reflection, applied skills development, and a commitment to behavioral experimentation. When we engage in these efforts in community with competent professionals in a supportive, nonjudmental, and collaborative context, rather than independently or in isolation, the resulting lifestyle change can be transformational. 

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Mobilizing Motivation: Executive Functioning Coaching involves:

• Assessing current executive functioning skills and abilities, specific to your areas of need

• Understanding motivation, interoceptive awareness, and decision-making styles/processes

• Reflecting on alignment between current functioning, hopes, fears, expectations, personal values, and perceptions of self

• Observing bodily sensations, emotions, thoughts, behaviors, and communication in order to identify unhelpful patterns, interests, learning preferences, and needs

• Understanding the meaning in our experiences of resistance, avoidance, openness, and initiation in order to overcome obstacles to success.

• Determining specific goals (behavioral, personal, academic, professional, etc.) objectives or steps, and intervention methods that will lead to desired goals, outcomes, or changes.

• Learning about executive functioning skills and neuroscientific theories that may explain our patterns of thinking, feeling, behaving, and communicating.

• Exploring personal preferences and research-based physiological (internal) and environmental (external) conditions for motivation and task-initiation, including nervous system regulation and sensory needs 

• Creating, implementing, and evaluating innovative and sustainable systems, structures, rituals, and routines

• Experimenting with a variety of evidence-based strategies and techniques in order to experience growth and success

• Experiencing regular accountability and support throughout the process, whatever it takes.