The Designed Change Institute

About the INSTITUTE

The Institute carefully focuses its work in all of its activities on applications of the Designed Change Process (DCP), a specific model for the intentional management of human behavior. The DCP has a Bimodal Theory of information processing in which it is understood that information is processed in parallel by an aware function of limited capacity and an automatic function of great capacity. The DCP is structured to use the differential impact of stress on the two functions in order to determine and accurately manage the appropriate information processing for any situation. It has been found that undesirable past learned responses interfere with intentional response under stress and other conditions. The DCP has developed a rerouting method in order to eliminate the effects of past learning on present response. DCP

DCI staff has managed a number of consulting and research programs including an extensive Federally funded study of human behavior in adverse stress conditions, training of the trainers of the San Francisco Police Department, courses in operator and manager behavior for the European Atomic Energy Commission in Ispra, Italy, and stress management in West Hartford public schools. These programs focus on assuring clarity in thought and action under adverse stress conditions and provide methods of interrupting past learned responses to render them inoperable.

DCI has placed some of its material on the internet, where it is available for use at no cost to the user. Past staff members and others are available as needed at salary to solve client problems and to develop effective use of the DCI materials here offered.

Staffing is based upon immediate needs and is supplied by consultants who have medical, psychological and technical capability.

Executive Co-Directors, Bernadette Kelley, R.N., B.S. and Thomas O. Sargent, M.Div., M.Ed.