Frontiers Friday #41. Deep Learner (Part II)
Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development
Frontiers Friday #41. Becoming a Deep Learner (Part II)
Welcome to Part II of Deep Learner series of our Frontiers Friday Newsletter.
Before we get into the 5 recommendations, there are 3 things I want to bring up:
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New Couples Therapy Study: We just published a study regarding the alliance-outcome of couples therapy. This study conducted in Singapore, took place some years ago, and we only just managed to get it published, thanks to all the co-authors. Click here to view the article.
Better Results 1st Year Anniversary: It has been one year since the publication of our book, Better Results! I can't believe it. This book took so long in the making, and now, one year has passed. Writing with Mark Hubble and Scott Miller, my heroes, have made me wanna raise my standards in writing. If you haven't seen the book, check it out on amazon, etc.
And hopefully, before the year is out, we will get the audiobook version completed!
OK! Onward with this week's big 5 recommendations.
From Deep Learner: The Lack of Direction and Depth
Here's a sneak peak into one of the modules in Deep Learner, as we address why deep learning suffers when we lack a clear individualised direction.
Bookworm: Make It Stick
This is book is one of the materials that influenced the creation of the Deep Learner course.
One of the things that the authors point out, that I often see in the learning sciences, is the fallacy of re-reading. Re-reading a text gives an illusion of fluency. Instead, we should be testing ourselves with what we've learned.
Test in order to learn, instead of "learn for the test."
Research: Merits of Withholding Performance Feedback
This blog by the Learning Scientists talks about a series of experiments that show the benefit of withholding marks so as to increase learning.
This has been a repeated theme that I see: An over-emphasis on performance can impede learning.
While this study in question came out after our Difficult Conversations in Therapy (DCT) study was completed, this was an approach that we took. We didn't want to give the learners in the RCT their performance scores/feedback because this would seem like there are trying to "perform" for the test, instead, we only gave them "learning feedback".
Watch: Mindset Theory (Is it All That It's Hyped Out to Be?)
I've talked about Carol Dweck's Fixed vs Growth Mindset in the past.
In our original supershrink's study, we didn't find any predictive value of therapists' mindset on their outcomes.
In this video, fellow Aussie-American Jared Horvath and co-author David Bott talks about this.
In their book 10 Things Schools Get Wrong: (And How We Can Get Them Right) has one chapter devoted to the contradictory findings in mindset studies. Brilliant summary.
Words Worth Contemplating:
"What grades offer is spurious precision ... a subjective rating masquerading as an objective evaluation.” ~ Alfie Kohn
Reflection:
How has the pressure of needing to 'perform' affected your ability to learn?
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I will take you behind the scenes and unveil the personalised learning system I've iterated and refined over the 15 years in order to extend your mind, and more importantly, translate what you've learned into use, such as in clinical related settings (therapy, supervision, training).
Based on 4 tenets to help you for the rest of your professional career, Deep Learner is specially designed to
1. Extend your mind by tapping into the powerful cutting edge science of how we learn best
2. Create a virtuous learning system that pushes you to your growth edge, and
3. Connect the dots and not just collect the dots.
BENEFITS:
1. The deep learner workshop arms you with depth for a sustaining development to become the best profession (and your best self),
2. Embrace a wide array of knowledge, and more importantly, use what you've learned to apply and help a larger percentage of people in your clinical practice.
What Deep Learner is Not?
1. It is not a bag of tricks;
2. It is not a theoretical online course;
3. It is not a pre-recorded lecture, and a poor substitute of face-to-face learning, and
4. It is not overwhelming Content with no Community and Connection.
WHEN DOES IT START?
The course starts the moment you sign up.
The content is "dripped" into your inbox every 3 days for total of 72 days; learn at your own pace.
And it is not subscription-based non-time limited. It's a LIFE-TIME ACCESS to the content and the community discussion!
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PREVIEW
Feel free to preview the modules as a taster of what's installed. (Click here and go to Course Curriculum Section).
Questions?
if you have any questions, feel free and hit reply to this email.
Here's what past students of Deep Learner have to say:
This course is a must if you want to get help in building your own learning system. And I would like to raise a warning finger at the same time, you will need to challenge many of your ideas what will be required of you to become a more helpful therapist.
That being said, you are not alone in this, above all, Daryl Chow generously shares his knowledge and experience in an educational and personal way.
~Bengt Göran Lindberg
Lic. psychotherapist, Supervisor, Sweden.
Daryl Chow has an amazing ability to translate incredibly complicated material into comprehensible, bite size chunks of wisdom which can be applied in clinical practice and in daily living.
Daryl's grounded and gentle style engages participants into a rich, collaborative learning experience. This is the second course I've taken with Daryl (the other being Reigniting Clinical Supervision) and he is truly one of the important voices shaping the field of psychotherapy in the 21st century.
~Keith Klostermann, PhD, LMFT, LMHC, CFT, NCC, AS
Fulbright Specialist Roster, US State Dept.
The Deep Learner Course brings most ordinary learning experiences back to life. I can now more effectively extract the gems from activities that would have been meaningless before.
~ Bert Munger, Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor, Vermont, USA
Dr Chow provides a very in-depth and thought provoking course on what it means to be a deep learner and shows you strategies and tips which will help you not only improve your clinical practice, but your work/life balance as well.
- Melvin S. Marsh, MS (graduate student)
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Unintended Consequences
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