Dr William Glasser’s Choice Theory® offers an insight and understanding in describing human behaviour. Choice Theory is a transformative positive psychology of wellbeing, health, and joy. Choice Theory offers an effective way to get along with the people in our lives. Dr Glasser’s Choice Theory offers an internally driven psychology that gives us the freedom to sustain the relationships that lead to healthy productive lives, replacing the external control psychology that dominates the world.
Choice Theory® teaches the following 10 Axioms:
1. The only person whose behaviour we can control is our own.
2. All we can give another person is information.
3. All long-lasting psychological problems are relationship problems.
4. The problem relationship is always part of our present life.
5. What happened in the past has everything to do with what we are today, but we can only satisfy our basic needs right now and plan to continue satisfying them into the future.
6. We can only satisfy our needs by satisfying the pictures in our Quality World.
7. All we do is behave.
8. All behaviour is Total Behaviour and is made up of four components: acting, thinking, feeling and physiology.
9. All Total Behaviour is chosen, but we only have direct control over the acting and thinking components. We can only control our feeling and physiology indirectly through how we choose to act and think.
10. All Total Behaviour is designated by verbs and named by the part that is the most recognisable.
