Join the Circles in Time Programme (Starting August 24th)
Costing details, programme schedule info and what you need to do next.
Thank you for your interest in joining The Circles in Time Programme!
It is great to see such diverse and wide-ranging interest in the topic. You’ll be joining participants from all parts of the planet, connected by a shared interest in behavio(u)ral science, self-development and the empowering potential of digital technologies.
If you have all the info you need you can signup for the programme here. If you would like more info on the programme, you can find all the details you need below.
Below you can find all the details on the following:
Programme Outcomes & Outputs
What Past Participants Have Said
Programme Content Outline
Programme Schedule
Programme Costing
Great! What Next?
If you want to learn more about the programme from David directly, you can reach out using the following email address: david.r.perrott@gmail.com
What will you gain from participating in the programme?
Learning Outcomes
You will be introduced to the emerging self-applied behavioural science landscape and where it fits in with behavioural science more broadly.
You will explore the relationships between your everyday actions and the longer-term implications on your health, wealth, growth and the environment.
You will learn about circular systems theory, as a framework for integrating self-applied behavioural science into your personal life.
You will learn about the psychology of goal setting, its limitations and how to build systems around your daily, weekly and monthly routines.
You will learn about habit formation, how habits operate neurobiologically and the situational factors required to get them up and running.
You will learn how to select behavioural challenges worth focusing on, commonly made prioritisation mistakes and measuring how they affect your health.
You will explore the different ways in which you can track yourself, the costs and benefits of various approaches and how to set these tracking systems up securely.
You will learn about the different types of self-deployed interventions, and how to effectively set them up for yourself.
You will learn about self-experimentation as a tool for understanding yourself, your responses and using experiments to find activities and effective interventions that are suitable for your unique situation and dynamics.
Practical Outputs you will Leave With:
You will have access to all the content and supporting resources engaged made available during the programme.
You will have fully mapped out a set of prioritised personal activities across six different dimensions of health.
You will have customised templates of your daily, weekly and monthly circular systems and integrating these systems into your personal and professional life.
You will have a fully designed intervention blueprint around one prioritised activity (or routine) that you intend to, start, stop, move towards or away from.
You will have access to a curated list of validated self-tracking tools, that you can use to measure different physiological, behavioural, attentional variables.
You will have set up, launched and examined one personal experiment, the template of which you can use and adapt for future self-focused experiments.
You will gain access to a growing online community of individuals who are taking self-applied behavioural science seriously.
What past participants have said about the programme:
“David translates literature into real life, making it accessible to anyone interested in experimenting and learning how their environment can support their goals.” ~ Jess Exton, London
“We know that in order to change our lives, we need to inevitably change behavior and build new habits. This is hard, and especially without a good system. That is why I loved this programme. It provides the first comprehensive system for self-applied behavioural science and David doesn't leave a stone unturned. I'm an expert on habits and I learned something from this programme. That should say something. Greatly recommend it!” ~ Samuel Salzer, Stockholm
“David's Circles of Time course is a great way to put our work into practice on ourselves. The video calls worked really well, and it was a treat to connect with other behavioural science practitioners from around the globe all with the common recognition that behaviour change is easier said than done. I really enjoyed the pre-readings. The course itself is a commitment device, and it worked: I'm a month into a new habit!” ~ Nathalie Spencer, Sydney
“The Circles in Time Programme is a great way to 'walk a mile in someone else's shoes' for professional behavioural science practitioners to experience interventions and strategies for changing behaviour. It also provides a combination of community support and in-depth knowledge with real personalised practical plan that works a very effective combination to drive personal behaviour change.” ~ James Hamlyn, Cape Town
“This program was an excellent introduction on Applied Behaviour Science for self-improvement. David's framework made the theory very accessible and easy to understand and adopt. The activities were very interactive, and I met an awesome group of people from all corners of the world. Highly recommend to experts and enthusiast.” ~ Larissa Azevedo, Sydney
“This program enabled me to see through myself. It is definitely disturbing but shaking too. Besides improved relationship with myself, I met with amazing people who have gone through similar routes as I did.” ~ Elif Basak Guven, Istanbul
“Being shown how to clearly think through new obtainable habits has been very valuable. The guidance from David every step of the way and the reassurance that it is okay to fail, we should just plan for these failure moments, has been a key realisation.” ~ Nina Kirsten, Stellenbosch
“The opportunity to share my personal experiences of a science-based personal experience into habit formation with like-minded individuals has had a significant impact not only how I consider personal habit development but has created greater accountability in achieving those habit-based goals.” ~ Keith Broni, Dublin
“The experience of self-applied behavioral sciences, especially the study of habits, is completely different from reading or talking about habits. This journey with David Perrott and the other colleagues opened my mind that in order to have the promised impact of behavioral economics on organizations, we must have to set up programs for experiencing and experimenting with clients, in addition to traditional training sessions or complementary readings.” ~ Max Correa, Sau Paulo
“David has designed an evidence-based prototype framework that allowed me to systematically design and experiment with interventions to meet my behaviour-based goal. I particularly like the wide range of options provided in guiding the type of interventions to apply for what works best for me, having better understood my own behaviours. With self-experimentation, I believe this has helped me improve my ability in setting up situations which promote desired behaviours in the long term. Remember I mentioned "prototype" as David has been iterating on this to make it better all the time. So when you join, you are getting an improved framework and possibly a more transformative experience.” ~ Salman Khair, Singapore
“The first time in a decade that I have been able to stick consistently to a work-out routine. This program gave me the tools, knowledge, and time I needed to design a routine that works for me.” ~ Jared Peterson, Arizona
Programme Content Outline
Part 1: Understanding the Challenge
The Potential of Self-applied Behavioural Science & Current Limitations [Week 1 Workshop]
The Consequences of Everyday Activities
Physical & Mental Health
Family & Friends
Personal & Professional Development
Finances & the Environment
The Typical Tools for Change
Information Access & Attention Allocation
Biased Beliefs, Judgements & Decisions
Knowledge & The Gap between Intention & Action
Willpower and when it Wanes
Saved by Others of the Third Kind
Government Policy, Hard & Soft
Companies, and their Business Models
The Rise of Motivational Spaces, Good & Bad
The Dark Side: Ludic Loops, Dark Patterns & Sludge
Self-Applied Behavioural Science
The Current Landscape
Where it Fails & Where it may Succeed
Satisfying all the Many Selves
Implementation Difficulties
Part 2: A Path to Self-Applied Behavioural Science
Setting up Circular Systems: An Approach to Implementation [Week 2 Workshop]
Thinking in Circular Systems
The Circular Systems around Us
The Circulars Systems between Us
The Circular Systems within Us
A World of Non-linear Circular Systems
Your Circles in Time: A Practical Guide
Slow Moving Circles in Time
Your Daily Circle & Default Settings
Goals, Systems & Habits
The Secret Powers of Goal Setting, and its Limitations
Your Futureself as a Stranger from a Foreign Land
Managing Multiple Selves with Many Goals
Syncing up your Systems & Goals
Habit Formation, Automation & Cognitive Delegation
The Pro & Cons of Time-anchored System Setting
Goal Orientation & Action Prioritisation
Primary Outcomes & Proximate Measures
Complexity, Interaction Effects & Externalities
An Introduction to the Dimensions of Health Framework
An Evidence-based Approach to System Selection
Talismans & Mimetic Desire
Track Yourself
Active & Passive Digital Self-trackers
Experience Sampling your Way through the Day
Self-reflection & Anecdata Collection
Multi-modal Data Analysis, Applied to Self
Part 3: Building a Behavioural Scaffolding
Understanding the Context & Self-Deploying Interventions [Week 3 Workshop]
Set your Scenario
Mapping the relevant Action Paths
Mapping Situational Features (Physical, Social, Psychological)
Pre-mortems & Failure Mitigation Strategies
Self-Deployed Cognitive Interventions
Overview of Cognitive Interventions
Examples of Cognitive Interventions in Practice
Boundary Conditions to Be Aware Of
Self-Deployed Situational Interventions
Overview of Situational Interventions
Examples of Situational Interventions in Practice
Boundary Conditions to Be Aware Of
Intervention Selection & Setup
Framework for Intervention Selection
Intervention Building & Setup Planning
Combining Interventions, the Pros & Cons
Part 4: Self-Experimentation
Getting Serious about Self-experimentation and How to Use It [Week 4 Workshop]
An Introduction to Self-Experimentation
The Interesting & Slightly Obscure History of Self-experimentation
Self-experimentation within the Context of Applied Behavioural Science
The Experimenter & The Doer (A Tale of Two Selves)
Expectation Issues & The Power of Placebos
Mapping the Different forms of Self-experimentation
Self-Experiment Design
What Success Looks Like, & Failure Too
Scaling Across Time
Hypothesing your Future Self
Mapping Multiple Measures
Build your First Experiment
Introduction to the Self-experimentation Template
Setting up a Four Week Experiment on Yourself
Build, Tinker & Play, Settle in, Reflect & Decide
Buddying up with a Fellow Self-experimenter
Programme Schedule
Given the wide-ranging geographic locations of interested participants, two workshop session slots will be set up to accommodate the time differences. The workshop session duration will vary between 2 and 3 hours.
Workshop Time Slot A: Saturday's at 6 am (GMT)
Workshop Time Slot B: Saturday's at 3 pm (GMT)
Schedule Details:
Week 1: Understanding the Challenge
The Potential of Self-applied Behavioural Science & Current Limitations
Content Release: Monday at 1 pm (GMT)
Workshop Time Slot A: Saturday's at 6 am (GMT)
Workshop Time Slot B: Saturday's at 3 pm (GMT)
Week 2: A Path to Self-Applied Behavioural Science
Setting up Circular Systems: An Approach to Implementation
Content Release: Monday at 1 pm (GMT)
Workshop Time Slot A: Saturday's at 6 am (GMT)
Workshop Time Slot B: Saturday's at 3 pm (GMT)
Week 3: Building a Behavioural Scaffolding
Understanding the Context & Self-Deploying Interventions
Content Release: Monday at 1 pm (GMT)
Workshop Time Slot A: Saturday's at 6 am (GMT)
Workshop Time Slot B: Saturday's at 3 pm (GMT)
Week 4: Self-Experimentation
Getting Serious about Self-experimentation and How to Use It
Content Release: Monday at 1 pm (GMT)
Workshop Time Slot A: Saturday's at 6 am (GMT)
Workshop Time Slot B: Saturday's at 3 pm (GMT)
Followed by four weekly check-ins with two timeslots per week. (starting the week of the 24th September 2020)
Programme Costing:
I intend to avoid third-party funding avenues, sponsorship, investment and advertising, in developing and growing the Circles in Time programme. My experience is that involving additional stakeholders can shift the incentives, confuse the priorities and slow down progress. I'd like to avoid this as much as possible. The simpler, clearer and more focused the objectives the better. Success should be measured by the impact the programme has on people's lives, not returning investment through high margins or how neatly it aligns with a particular brand's commercial positioning.
With that said, to dedicate my attention towards building and facilitating the programme and paying for the software services required to bring it to life, my view is that it is reasonable to expect the participants to assist in covering the costs if they can.
8 Week Programme Price:* 250$ (USSD)
*I'm aware, given COVID and the economic climate that some of the interested participants may not be able to cover the cost at this time. I'd hate for finances to be the reason why you can't participate. If this isn't something you can afford right now, please email me directly (david.r.perrott@gmail.com), and we can make a plan.
Post-programme Community Invitation
At the end of the 8-week programme, participants will be invited to access an online community space which includes participants from the previous CiT programme cohorts and hopefully many others in the future, as the programme grows. The online community space is set up to facilitate ongoing discussion and social learning on topics relating to self-applied behavioural science, personal system design, habit-formation, self-tracking and self-experimentation. The group gets access to monthly online check-ins, webinars with guest speakers, content and digital tools.
Community access (monthly subscription)*: 12$ (USSD)
*You only need to decide on whether to join the online community space at the end 8-week programme.
Great! What's Next?
Step One:
Apply online here:
Once your application has been reviewed, you will receive feedback via email, and you can proceed to step two.
Step Two:
Please make your programme payment for 250$ (USSD)
Payment via PayPal: paypal.me/DavidPerrottPtyLtd
If you are unable to access PayPal, please contact me directly, and I will provide alternative payment mechanisms. If you require an invoice, please just add that as a PayPal note when making your payment.
Step Three:
Explore these resources in the build-up to the programme:
Three Academic Papers Worth Reviewing:
Beyond Willpower: Strategies for Reducing Failures of Self-Control
~ Angela Duckworth, et al. (2019)Nudging & Boosting: Steering or Empowering Good Decisions
~ Ralph Hertwig, et al. (2017)Self-nudging & the Citizen Choice Architect
~ Samuli Reijula, et al. (2020)
Eight Books worth Reading:
Think Small ~ Owain Service & Rory Gallagher
How to Have a Good Day ~ Caroline Webb
Indistractable ~ Nir Eyal
Good Habits, Bad Habits ~ Wendy Wood
Tiny Habits ~ BJ Fogg
Behave ~ Robert Sapolsky
Thinking in Systems ~ Donella Meadows
Spiritual Design ~ Steven Wendel
Nine Digital Tools worth Exploring:
I'm incredibly excited to see all of you so soon. Until then, feel free to reach out if you have any questions and please invite others who you think may be interested in joining. We still have a few spots left.
Take care,
David
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