Overview
The Davis Concepts for Life Program has been developed for anyone wanting to make meaningful life changes.
Change you might be looking for may be in any or many of these areas: executive functioning, organization, elevated stress and anxiety, difficulty with focusing on tasks and conversations, regulating energy and emotions, managing behavior, and maintaining positive relationships.
We understand, not every challenge in learning and life has a name.
Are you (or someone you support) struggling with reduced focus, disorganization, or self-regulation?
Do you feel overwhelmed by stress and anxiety, wishing your life felt easier to manage?
Do you struggle to form and maintain positive relationships or avoid taking responsibility for certain aspects of your life?
If any of this resonates with you, know that you're not alone, and the Davis Concepts for Life program can offer support, strategies, and solutions to empower you in your life.
Benefits of the program
• Improved wellbeing. Experience empowerment as you navigate life with greater self-awareness, the ability to create boundaries and manage stress, with less anxiety and overwhelm.
• Stronger social connections. Improve your interactions with better monitoring and interpreting of your emotions, self-regulating your energy levels, and listening more effectively.
• Improved productivity. Say goodbye to procrastination and hello to better focus, and a more organized, productive and fulfilling life.
• Improved time management. Understand and take control of time in your life.
- Strengthened relationships. Become well-equipped to navigate relationships – at school, at work, and in your personal life.
- Taking control of your life. Learn a stress-free approach to creating order and take charge of your life.
- Gain control and mastery - transforming confusion and chaos into clarity and certainty.
Imagine a world where your unique qualities are stepping stones to success.
What is involved in a Davis Concepts for Life program?
You’ll be guided by a highly trained and caring Davis Concepts for Life Facilitator, who will
accompany you on your journey and provide:
A tailored program
We specialize in a personalized approach that utilizes your strengths to achieve your goals,
ensuring meaningful results. Our approach is centered around you – your interests, goals, and pace.
Holistic support
Our gentle approach helps you develop greater self-awareness, self-regulation, and emotional
awareness in ways that empower you to participate more easily and fully in the life you choose.
Life “Mastery”
Unlike talk therapies, the Davis Concepts for Life program uses creativity and experiential learning. Our unique approach ensures mastery of fundamental cognitive concepts; cause and effect, time, order and disorder, motivation, and responsibility and a relationship framework, so they become a natural part of how you think, learn, and put you in control of your life.
Expert guidance
Our program is facilitated by highly trained, experienced facilitators, who understand and care. We provide expert guidance throughout your journey, offering support that goes beyond surface-level understanding.
What is involved in a Davis Concepts for Life Program?
Step 1: Self-Regulation Strategies and Tools
The facilitator will begin by supporting the individual to become more present, develop accurate perceptions, gain a greater sense of self-awareness, and develop the skills to regulate their focus, stress, and energy levels. This process includes:
Auditory Orientation – The individual listens to a specially engineered sound through headphones leading up to and, if necessary, during program sessions. This auditory stimulus affectionately referred to as the ‘Davis Ting’ was designed by Ron Davis to help each individual to develop accurate, stable perceptions. This technique can greatly enhance a person’s ability to maintain a calm state of focus.
Release – A simple, effective technique to empower the individuals to manage their stress and anxiety levels.
Dial – A visualization technique that enables the individual to monitor and regulate their energy levels according to any situation.
Self-Orientation – This consolidates the feeling of focus established by the Auditory Orientation, and enables the participant to achieve and maintain focus without needing to use the auditory orientation sound.
Koosh Ball Exercises – A fun, interactive way to practice maintaining focus, while strengthening neural pathways and improving balance and co-ordination
Step 2: Davis Life Concepts
This Davis facilitator supports the individual to actively create the fundamental life concepts using the engaging hands-on method of modeling clay as a visual representation of the concept. Concepts include:
• self, change, consequence, cause and effect, before and after, time, sequence, order and disorder
• continue, survive, perception, thought, experience
• energy, force, emotion, want, need, intention
• motivation, ability, control, responsibility
Then, we explore the concepts by having meaningful, engaging, and positive experiences in the environment which allows the individual to understand these life concepts in a safe and fun way. This enables the individual to integrate their experiences into their personal identity, as a framework for understanding the world, and creates a solid foundation for stimulating positive and lasting change.
The facilitator supports the individual to establish order in their physical environment by learning how to use the concepts to establish order, determine order, and create and maintain order.
The individual is empowered to develop self-responsibility, through identifying which life concept/s are missing and thereby preventing or limiting the individual's capacity for self-responsibility.
Step 2: Davis Life Concepts
This Davis facilitator supports the individual to actively create the fundamental life concepts using the engaging hands-on method of modeling clay as a visual representation of the concept. Concepts include:
• self, change, consequence, cause and effect, before and after, time, sequence, order and disorder
• continue, survive, perception, thought, experience
• energy, force, emotion, want, need, intention
• motivation, ability, control, responsibility
Then, we explore the concepts by having meaningful, engaging, and positive experiences in the environment which allows the individual to understand these life concepts in a safe and fun way. This enables the individual to integrate their experiences into their personal identity, as a framework for understanding the world, and creates a solid foundation for stimulating positive and lasting change.
The facilitator supports the individual to establish order in their physical environment by learning how to use the concepts to establish order, determine order, and create and maintain order.
The individual is empowered to develop self-responsibility, through identifying which life concept/s are missing and thereby preventing or limiting the individual's capacity for self-responsibility.
Step 3: Implementing meaningful change
This stage of the Davis Concepts for Life Program focuses on helping the individual to apply the concepts in their life to create meaningful change. The desired changes will depend on each person’s specific needs, capacity and situation.
Creating New Behaviors
Exploring behaviors that had negative consequences and using the Davis Life Concepts to explore and create desired outcomes and strategies.
Developing Self-Responsibility
Identifying which life concepts may have been missing or only partially integrated in the person’s life and learning a strategy to foster self-responsibility by applying these newly mastered concepts in real-world situations.
Strengthening Executive Functioning Skills
Developing and integrating the core concepts to improve self-regulation skills, focus, stress management and energy regulation.
Improving Social Integration
Exploring concepts that create foundations for positive, healthy relationships and behaviors with others.
Program format and timeframe
The time to complete a Davis Concepts for Life Program is flexible, however, a typical program takes at least 60 hours.
Support on your journey
It is an individualized program focusing on your goals, delivered either in person or online.
At Davis, we believe in every individual’s potential, regardless of challenges. Let the Davis Concepts for Life Program be your partner and embark on a transformative experience that will redefine what is possible for you. Unlock your gifts and thrive!
“After my program, I have been clearer with myself. Internally my decisions have more
structure, they are more defined”
-Davis Concepts for Life client
*Information used with permission from davismethod.com and Davis Autism International
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