Successful Life Story Transformations - Using the ROADMAP System to Change Mind, Brain, and Behavior by David Krueger MD, Editor

The case summaries in this book are from professional Mentor Coaches whom I have trained as Licensed, Specialty-Certified New Life Story® Coaches and New Money Story® Mentors. This Mentor Coaching system integrates psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral economics with strategic coaching to transform mind, brain, and behavior. Unique in its scope and depth, it incorporates the art and neuroscience of creating changes that last. Along with successful changes of behavior, the choice architecture also entails underlying revisions of mind software and brain hardware. We help our clients create essential changes of life, money, career, relationship, wellness, and business stories that can make a difference for a lifetime. This compilation of ROADMAP Case Studies submitted by Licensed, Specialty-Certified New Life Story® Coaches and New Money Story® Mentors both illustrates the work that they do in Mentor Coaching and is a contribution in its own right. The approach illustrated here integrates the dynamic insights of psychology and neuroscience with the principles of strategic coaching to generate a new story. The new story calls for generating new experiences coupled with awakening hope, envisioning the future, and mobilizing talents and strengths to attain certain goals of personal and business growth. Beliefs drive behavior. Behavior drives performance. Changing your mind changes your brain and your life. The ROADMAP process systematically informs active listening and understanding of the participant’s own story. Beyond that, it provides structure and strategies to guide the evolution of a participant’s unique voice as he or she writes and revises a new story. The ROADMAP(acronym for the seven steps in the creation of a new story) is a structured process by which participants deconstruct an old story and systematically construct a new or revised one. No matter whether the story has to do with life, money, relationships, career, wellness, or business, this str