MENTAL MODEL REFRAMING

Mental Models are our often unseen or unconscious lenses on the world. They are beliefs, assumptions, and ideas we have about the way the world works that help create our reality (our perceptions, feelings, reactions, and experiences). Each individual has their own constructed mental models based on unique life experiences, perceptions, and understandings of the world. 

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This exercise helps gain insights into your mental models, how they serve you and how they hinder you. This exercise is a powerful exploration on how to break habits, unhelpful ways of thinking, and make lasting change.

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Source: Executive Coaching Connections toolkit

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*For an additional perspective on Mental Models, Peter Senge talks about the power of organizational mental models in his book The Fifth Discipline. Why do changes and new ideas fail to be put into practice? "This isn't from weak intentions, wavering will, or even nonsystematic understand, but from mental models. More specifically, new insights fail to get put into practice because they conflict with deeply held internal images of how the world works, images that limit us to familiar ways of thinking and acting" (p. 165).

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Senge, P. M. (2006). Chapter 9: Mental models. In The fifth discipline: The art and practice of the learning organization (2nd ed.). New York: Double Day.

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