The Future-Self Video Journal For Goal Re-
commitment In Recovery Program

Brought to you by Encapsulator and Wesley Hospital
Ashfield.

At Wesley Hospital Ashfield, we have some
recommendations for how to use encapsulator to help you
take action in the early phase of recovery.

Research into goal setting suggests that ‘mental contrasting’ is an effective technique to increase the likelihood of behaviour change when working towards a goal (in our case here, recovery; for example, see Wittleder et al., 2019).

Mental contrasting involves considering what your goals are and what the best things would be about achieving the goal but also what barriers stand in your way.

This technique helps you recommit to the goal and think about ways to address the barriers.

Finally, speaking about what you wish for yourself in six months and five years can help you take steps today to achieve your goals.

It is recommended that you use the prompts for recommitting to your goal by making a short video (1-2 minutes or more if you wish) every morning in Encapsulator.

Over time it is likely that you will learn more about barriers
and also what you really wish for. In early recovery, it will be
helpful to recommit daily and over time this can be reduced to weekly.

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Are you the school teacher creating an assignment all the home school parents, a fun assigment the whole family can enjoy. Providing opportunity for your children to do a project on family history with their class, interviewing each family member and recording a video message themselves that can be open at the end of the year or when class starts up again. A Digital Time Capsule the ideal way to document history in social isolation.

Mental Contrasting with Action (from Wittleder et al. 2019)

With Encapsulator you can make different capsules for different purposes, for example, a gratitude list. After you become accustomed to making the videos, locking the capsule but still adding the video daily is recommended and the videos will be private and encrypted.

As mention above, it is recommended that you use the prompts below for recommitting to your goal by making a short video (1-2 minutes or more if you wish) every morning. These prompts have been adapted from previous studies of mental contrasting (for example, Wittleder et al., 2019) Encapsulator Future-Self Prompts 1. What is the date? 2. What is your goal? 3. What would be the best things about achieving this goal? Picture these things in your mind. 4. What are the biggest barriers to achieving your goal today? Picture what the barriers are. 5. How can these barriers be overcome? 6. Think about yourself in six months’ time. What do you wish for yourself? 7. Think about yourself in five years’ time. What do you wish for then? We wish you a wonderful journey of discovery and motivation with a Digital Time Capsule by Encapsulator…

Reference

Wittleder, S., Kappes, A., Oettingen, G., Gollwitzer, P.M., Jay, M. and Morganstern, J. (2019).
Mental Contrasting with Implementation Intensions Reduces Drinking When Drinking Is
Hazardous: An Online Self-Regulation Intervention. Health Education & Behaviour, 1-11.

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LETTING GO

Letting go is different for everyone depending on why the separation is occurring. It affects each of us with different emotional states and for different periods of time.

For some it’s letting go of a loved one who has always been by your side, for others it could be breaking free of a trauma bond, releasing a part of yourself that doesn’t bring you happiness or growth anymore or choosing a different path for your life that rids you of an emotional attachment to another, maybe it’s a culmination of all of these.

Regardless of your need to let go or your desire to feel free, the idea of this is never easy but it is a core experience we each face in this lifetime and from this program we reach out a hand to you in the form of video journal and offer you the opportunity to let go in a constructive way and adapt the idea of valuing the memories, appreciating the lessons learnt and understanding that every goodbye can offer you a new beginning.