VISION QUEST OVERVIEW and WEEK #1 PREP

20th Feb 2024

If you are reading this you probably aspire to lead a good life and are curious about how to connect with your life purpose on a deeper level.  Richard Boyatzis is an organisational theorist and Distinguished University Professor in the Departments of Organizational Behaviour, Psychology, and Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University. His focus for over 30 years has been the question of how to create sustainable behavioural change – and his framework ‘Intentional Change Theory’ is widely used and regarded.

In this framework, Boyatzis proposes that if we wish to change, one of the key first steps is to determine what our ‘Ideal self’ is. However, he points out in his writings that most concepts of the ‘Ideal self’ are static point in time questions that address such ideas as the ‘best version of self’. Boyatzis argues that as we are living in a dynamic changing environment these static concepts need to be transformed to become dynamic. The way to do this is to embed circular …