Recognizing Patterns and Behavior Cycles

This course builds on emotions and stress by helping you recognize how reactions repeat over time. You'll explore how thoughts, emotions, and behaviors form connected cycles, how triggers activate familiar responses, why certain reactions can feel automatic, and how even small moments of awareness can begin interrupting patterns that no longer serve you.

  • 30 min

    eLearning Duration
    What We Offer

    What's included in this eLearning course?

    What You'll Learn

    Understand how repeated experiences shape automatic reactions, how triggers activate familiar patterns, and how thoughts, emotions, and behaviors reinforce each other over time.

    Grounded in Real Research

    Draws on research from Daniel Goleman, Bessel van der Kolk, Daniel Siegel, and Judith Beck to explain how behavior cycles form and how awareness can begin to interrupt them.

    No Perfection Required

    This isn't about getting it right. It's about understanding your own patterns a little more clearly, so you have more choice in how you respond next time.

    Dr. LaDonna Stone, LCSW

    Dr. LaDonna Stone, PhD, LCSW, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Industrial/Organizational Psychologist with nearly two decades of experience in leadership development and workplace well-being. She founded LeadWell Training & Development to help people build the emotional and mental skills to thrive in life and at work.
    Patrick Jones - Course author
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