Re-Learning Yourself, Or "Remotivation"!

“Remotivation therapy is a set of individual and group questioning skills that you can use to "motivate" and "engage" those you serve in health, work and recreation.”

Ah! Another best practice that we believe has transferable applications in the workforce and related programs. The whole idea of remotivating, or re-engaging if you can understand it better. At its fundamental roots, this process and practice sounds like a simple idea that encourages participation by allowing your team to re-learn how to use what they already have and know. This idea has the participants allowing their successful and well-known positive roles and identity to reemerge. This helps them reclaim self-esteem and confidence and breaks a cycle of the one-way road journey of abandoning the very essence of who they are. For example, roles and identities related to past jobs, duties, tasks, skills, hobbies, volunteer work and other occupations, these all can be filled with rich experiences that benefit the present roles of the individual. Why waste something of value? Read more about this idea of “remotivation” and how you might utilize the ideas of its practice even in a most elementary form in your own workplace.

“One of the great values of demotivation is that it emphasizes to the patients that they have an objective existence to other people: not an existence that depends only on what the patients think of themselves, but one that depends to a large degree on how we, their fellow beings, see them.”

“If remotivation emphasized only the objective identity of the patient, it might not be really effective. Remotivation creates a bridge between the patients as they appear to the world and the patients as they appear to themselves. It does so by encouraging them to browse around in the concrete world and to identify and assert their experiences in interactions with other human beings. The only restriction you place on their browsing is that they must, in remotivation, come up with concrete, specific information. They must describe their experiences concretely. A patient must say, “This is how I built cabinets at the factory,” or “It used to take me three days to plow one-hundred fifty acres,” or “Cactus plants need less water than other houseplants.””

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Used effectively in wellness programs, “Remotivation is a set of communication skills that teaches you to avoid problem discussions and keep the focus on the positive. This is accomplished by learning a climate of acceptance and appreciation, non-subjective questioning discussion techniques, gearing questioning to ability level of the student and focusing discussion on work or normal activities of daily living /recreation.”

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Remotivation is also a therapy and communications model that helps families by teaching members how to rekindle the valuable and life enhancing roles within their own members suffering from depression, cancer, alzhiemers, grief, PTSD and more.  (Reference: Family and Caregiver Use of Remotivation)