PEOPLECHANGE©

The Theory and Practice of Healthy Risk Re‑direction 

Risky behavior is infinitely human.  People still smoke, still get behind the wheel intoxicated, have unprotected sex, live lives designed to kill them ‑ isn't stress the great health threat of our times?  But there are success stories, people do make changes, stop doing the unhealthy, start in new directions.  How does that change happen?  What can we do to motivate and support it?   

In our role as providers, we often feel charged with the responsibility of changing people's behavior and overwhelmed by the urgency of the need for that change.  The stakes seem higher than ever before and the consequences for unwise decisions leave little room for patience. We get caught between the expectation, both from our agencies and ourselves, that we will change our clients, and the reality that behavior change invariably comes from within the individual.