Real Play: Use Creative Hopelessness To Break Free From Unhelpful Patterns with Rikke Kjelgaard and Diana Hill

Creative Hopelessness is a powerful tool in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to increase motivation to change and evolve new behaviors. In this real play, Rikke Kjelgaard demonstrates the key questions you can ask yourself to start to get unstuck from unhelpful patterns.

Listen and Learn:

  • What is creative hopelessness

  • How to use creative hopelessness to create a functional analysis

  • The creative hopelessness of people-pleasing

  • How to make room for discomfort

  • Getting yourself to the gym

  • Connecting with values

  • The expectancy violation effect

  • The costs of taking care of everyone else’s needs

  • Making one small change

About Rikke Kjelgaard

Rikke Kjelgaard is a licensed psychologist, author and expert in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). She is an awarded fellow of the Association for Contextual Behavioural Science and chief rock’n’roller in her own business. Rikke is on a mission to help humans thrive and to be brave and authentic badasses. Trained as a clinical psychologist, she has a 15 year background in the science of human behaviour and the practice of behaviour change. Rikke is a celebrated speaker at the Scandinavian as well as the international stage, and she is known to bring both passion and vulnerability to her talks. She transforms the lives of her audience by bringing evidence based strategies to her listeners and readers in ways that are edible, manageable and impactful. Rikke is known to leave her audience in tears with compelling stories from her own life and to create extraordinary interactions between people.

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