What we do - partial list

• Train your staff to establish the type of interpersonal contact required to transfer information and shift behavior. Then we can train your trainers to carry it on.
• Design education and skill-acquisition training programs for your unique needs.
• Evolve new strategies to tackle six of the big causes of escalating health care costs.
• Provide strategies to increase productivity and job satisfaction, and lower staff stress.
• Provide research-based media content standards which raise quality and audience engagement, and which satisfy Congressional legislation and FCC regulations written to protect young consumers.

And, how we do it

We match your corporate values, goals, and time line with our knowledge and skills, using an original, proven approach to assess the situation, and when needed to educate and facilitate skill acquisition of your staff.

Our unique approach evolved by integrating most of the current and past theories and methods of motivational enhancement, behavior change, decision-making process, and the psychological dynamics of sub-personality. An abbreviated list of these methods indicates the diversity, redundancy, competition, and lack of communication in this field where isolated funding sources and isolated workers have allowed knowledge to remain unintegrated for 58 years.

As far as we know, we are the first to have integrated them and continue to do so as new research unfolds.

There are also new research findings in neuroscience about mind-body interactions, about how the emotional brain is required for decision-making, and how brain development is more plastic than previous thought. We have colleagues who do this cutting-edge research in neurobiology and keep us informed. We bring all this, with due caution of course, into our consultation work.

In a corporate climate, we use our well-honed interviewing skills to conduct a sensitive, individualized assessment, which includes evaluating accurately the conscious objectives of various people in the system, their style of working and relating, and their understanding of their own role as compared to how others see them. We identify and work with the presence of unspoken agendas and assumptions. We pull together a comprehensive understanding, convey it, indicate options of value, and, finally, offer to enhance change by direct involvement in a group intervention.

How we do it - a partial list

• By live demonstrations and interactive role play.
• By incorporating the latest advances in body/brain/mind neurobiology. By incorporating the latest advances in relationship psychology.
• By staying aware of how medical patients and providers are responding to new methods aimed at health behavior change.
• By using SINHC™ our newly designed model for Health Coaching and Patient Centered Care.

Further Information

      Six Remediable Causes for High Cost of Health Care

• Un-integrated, redundant care processes, and under-use of valid non-traditional approaches which integrate emotions, cognition, and measurement.
• Interpersonal bottlenecks in care.
• Insurance coverage unsupportive to prevention, care integration, and emotional health maintenance.
• Inadequate models and methods of chronic condition management and pre-and post-surgical patient care.
• Unwarranted procedures, hospitalizations, and variations in care.
• Out-dated theories and models of health decision-making
• Inadequate graduate medical and nursing education and training in the science of behavior change and other interpersonal processes impacting patients, families, and their care providers.

      Abbreviated list of theories and methods of behavior change

Motivational Interviewing, Shared Decision-Making, The Psychology of Selves , Internal Family Systems, EMDR, Trans-theoretical Model & Stages of Change, Self-Efficacy Model, Self-Determination Model, Self-Regulatory Model, Health Belief Model, Guided-Imagery, Mindfulness in Medicine, Positive Psychology, Behavioral Economics, Communication Theory, etc, etc.

      To Our Business Clients

In these challenging times of global competition and change, there are advantages for corporations to add new scientific system-based knowledge about "internal" corporate dynamics to the traditional business models.

In our experience with providing consultation to corporations and institutions, our application of new concepts from the psychologically-based systems theory of interpersonal dynamics of groups points the way to surprisingly workable and promising options to reduce stress and increase productivity.

Our clients appreciate that we do not try to dazzle them with fast talk and a packaged-plan of fancy questionnaires, workshops and workbooks and that our judgment is based upon their needs and context, scientific knowledge, and our collective experience.

     About the ChamLabs™ and OKTVT media analysis standards manual

ChamLabs™ (John Livingstone, President) offers parents, the TV industry, the medical community, and the FCC a set of Child Health Standards for analyzing TV programs based on decades of scientific research. Top media researchers, child health professionals, TV technologists, legal experts, and creative producers worked together for over eight years to create these Standards. They have been reviewed by committees of major medical organizations. They are now contained in a Manual used to analyze programs that covers the content elements which are a high risk to health in the following five categories: violence, sex, fear-inducing content, anti-social behaviors, and content that, if imitated by children, might bring harm or death.

The Manual's procedures are reliability tested. They account both for the context in which the risk content is embedded and for the age group of the viewer. The content data from each analyzed TV program is then translated into meta-language to activate parental management technology which can be distributed by broadcast, satellite, and cable.

The ChamLabs™ process that selects the content of TV programs is a realistic substitute for the impossible task of training most parents for months to identify accurately the research-based health risks in programs and then to pre-view every program their children watch at home and at the neighbors.

Many people are confused about the difference between that TV content parents may personally consider "indecent and inappropriate" and that content that research shows universally puts children at "health risk", depending upon age. Although content containing non-sexual nudity and obscene language have not been well researched for health risk, these two additional categories are also included in the Manual for scoring because many parents have personal concerns about them; they are treated differently than are the five proven health risk categories.

      Private Clinical Mental Health Services Available for adults, couples, parents, children, teenagers

• Evaluation of strengths and problem areas, and "Diagnosis".
• Consultation about Progress of Therapy with others.
• Consultation to Schools and Primary Care Physicians.
• Evaluation of Couple's Relationship or Family Issues.
• Treatments- verbal, behavioral, medications. Including as needed: traditional psychotherapies (psychoanalytic, cognitive-behavioral, work with sub-personalities and attachment, IFS &Voice Dialogue, Imago Relationship Work, EMDR).
• Parenting Strategies.
• Integrate Care being provided by others.
• Divorce Mediation and Consultation within the Legal-system.