C is for Change Prompts
Reflect from a personal, practice, or policy perspective
Personal Prompt
What is a target behaviour you would like to change? Identify something you’d like to do or stop doing, and put it at the centre of the COM-B framework. Now, colour in how much motivation, capability, and opportunity you think you have to exercise the target behaviour. Take a few minutes to write or voice memo where you see strengths and gaps.
Practice Prompt
Think about your workplace. Make a list of what are deemed “good” versus “problematic” behaviours. Why? What norms and expectations do you think are at play? Next, reflect on how your work shapes behaviours. What does your workplace do to influence motivation, build knowledge & skills, or shift the social, cultural or physical environment? How much does your work rely on threats, punishment, or other coercive techniques? Write or voice memo your thoughts and feelings.
Policy Prompt
Let’s try doing some policy analysis. Take a social policy you are familiar with. Or read the Government of Alberta’s Shelter Accommodation Expectations, which are the province’s official set of guidelines for homeless shelter operations. What assumptions do the guidelines make about human behaviour? What intervention types do the guidelines make use of? What intervention types are seemingly absent? Refer to the second layer of the Behaviour Change Wheel.
