S4E06 - Amy Day on decision skills for parents and emerging adults
Decision-making is not just a cognitive exercise; there are benefits to approaching it as a whole person.
To talk more about this, I invited Amy Day, decision educator and executive director of the nonprofit Clarity for Action, to my podcast. Amy likes to say that she grew up in a decision laboratory, surrounded by giants from the field of decision science. She's certified as a decision educator, coach and advisor through Stanford, continuing studies.
Over the past 20 years, she has combined her native background in decision quality, with insights, from social emotional learning, in order to teach emerging adults and parents to integrate whole person decision making into their lives in order to get clarity and take purposeful action.
Today, Amy explains how to check one's decision fitness with a simple acronym, the four components of whole person decision making, and what parents and adults can do to cultivate decision skills and the young people they support.
Topics Covered
2:49 Whole person decision making
4:27 Growing up in a decision laboratory
7:24 Working the emotions that arise in decision making
8:34 Decision fitness and my internal operating system
14:10 Four areas of whole-person decision making
14:20 Values: Who am I
16:02 Internal Operating System: How am I, decision fitness, and HALT
18:36 The importance of putting on your own oxygen mask first
19:37 Decision Process: What could I
26:53 Action: What are my action steps
27:55 Quality of decisions, quality of outcomes
32:11 Decision aftercare
36:00 Decision classroom
About Amy Day’s nonprofit, Clarity4Action
Our goal at Clarity4Action.org is to support people in moving from feeling confused and stuck to calm clarity and effective action in their choices. We teach and coach whole-person decision making to young people as they emerge into adulthood and the people who support them.
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Resources
Clarity4Action website Clarity4Action.org
Sign up to receive our weekly email for integrating better decision making into your life. https://clarity4action.org/thoughtful-thursday-blog/
To learn more from Michelle about decision making, check out
The Ask A Decision Engineer website
Her self-paced course Decision Toolkit for Personal Decisions
Her Decision Toolkit for Coaches and Counselors virtual workshop on Maven
