Course Overview
Sustained Change Mastery is the capstone protocol of the Mind & Performance School. Across 12 lessons and 90 guided days you will fuse relapse-prevention psychology with modern habit science to anchor the changes you have been practicing into lifelong neural pathways.
Each lesson distills evidence-based cognitive-behavioural techniques into clear, doable micro-practices. You will learn how cues, dopamine, and context drive automatic behaviour, how to anticipate high-risk moments, and how to redesign your surroundings so the new habit becomes the easiest option.
By day 90 you will leave with a personalised Sustained-Change Master Plan - a living document you can iterate whenever life shifts - so that progress feels less like willpower and more like a well-tuned system you can trust.
What You’ll Master
- ✓Understand why the adult brain resists change and how to work with, not against, its plasticity rules
- ✓Map the cue-routine-reward loop for any behaviour you want to keep or drop
- ✓Decode dopamine fluctuations so cravings lose their emotional charge
- ✓Spot high-risk situations days before they happen and install pre-planned coping scripts
- ✓Transform lapses into data using the abstinence-violation effect framework
- ✓Use behavioural activation to keep mood and motivation steady during the maintenance phase
- ✓Engineer physical and digital environments that silently reinforce your new identity
- ✓Design a 90-day timeline with built-in reviews, micro-adjustments, and relapse drills
Who This Course Is For
This protocol is designed for graduates of the earlier Mind & Performance School courses, therapists building relapse-prevention toolkits, and anyone who has started healthy habits only to watch them fade after a few weeks.
Research & Evidence Foundation
Relapse-prevention strategies emerged from cognitive-behavioural addiction treatments and have since been validated across behaviours ranging from smoking cessation to exercise adherence. Core concepts such as identifying high-risk situations, coping-skills rehearsal, and the abstinence-violation effect are considered gold-standard components in evidence-based CBT protocols.
Contemporary habit science - rooted in Hebbian plasticity and the basal ganglia's cue-response loops - explains why automatic behaviours dominate daily life. By aligning relapse-prevention planning with the neural timeline of habit formation (roughly 60-90 days for complex behaviours), this course bridges two robust literatures into a single practical framework.
Evidence-Based Approach
This course draws on peer-reviewed research in neuroscience, psychology, and clinical practice. It follows the Relapse Prevention + Habit Science framework and is designed to deliver accurate, clinically responsible education.
Course Lessons (12 total)
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Module 1: Why Change Is Hard to Sustain
Module 2: Goal-Directed vs. Automatic Behavior
Lesson 5: Goal-Directed vs. Automatic Behavior
Lesson 6: Relapse Is a Process, Not a Failure
Lesson 7: High-Risk Situations and Triggers
Lesson 8: Coping Skills and the Abstinence Violation Effect
Module 3: Behavioral Activation for Maintenance
Lesson 9: Behavioral Activation for Maintenance
Lesson 10: Designing Your Environment for Change
Lesson 11: The 90-Day Rewiring Timeline
Lesson 12: Your Sustained-Change Master Plan
