About CEABA
CEABA is said “see bar”. The name is the method.
To make a change that lasts, you first learn what triggers your emotions, attitudes and behaviour, and how you act on them. Each letter is one step.
The five letters
Every session comes back to these.
- Change
- What you want to be different. Set as goals you can reach, one step at a time.
- Emotions
- The feeling you go to first when stress hits. If it’s always anger or fear, that’s where the work starts.
- Attitudes
- The beliefs, often from upbringing or experience, that shape how you see a situation and predict what you’ll do.
- Behaviour
- What you actually do when the trigger hits: to change something, or to keep it the same.
- Action
- What you choose to do instead, planned ahead and practised until it sticks.
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What Phil focuses on
- Lightbulb moments: seeing how you address, respond and react to what happens
- Your four responses, emotion, attitude, behaviour and action, so you can reflect on them
- The triggers underneath: psychological, family or the world around you
- A plan for your situation, with goals you can actually reach
- You at the centre: assessing what’s going on, then working on it together
The thinking behind CEABA starts with how the brain reacts: the limbic system, and the amygdala’s split-second emotional response. It also draws on dialectical behaviour therapy, psychodynamic theory, the biopsychosocial and psychosocial models, cognitive behaviour therapy, and social justice and humanism. Why CEABA is different
What CEABA stands for
- Mission
- To help people rediscover what they’re capable of, set a new direction and make changes that last.
- Values
- Compassion, respect, justice, empathy, humanity and dignity, every day. People take the lead in their own lives.
- Vision
- A place people can come to put down the weight of what’s hurting them, and leave with the skills to change it.
“The greatest gift you have yet to embrace is your potential to make changes.”
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