The SEJ Process

What is the SEJ Process?

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The SEJ Process is a self-help, evidence-based, psychoeducational, solution focused process of self-enquiry. It is used to identify stressful and limiting thoughts that affect a person's mental health, and at the same time address them enabling the practitioner to reach their full potential. It can be used in the moment a difficult or traumatic life event occurs, or retrospectively. The approach and application of the SEJ Process is both innovative, immediate, and life changing. It ends the need for external intervention and repeat therapy sessions. If an SEJ Consultant is employed (usually as an intervention) one session is often all that is needed to resolve issues. The effectiveness and immediate nature of the SEJ Process has been backed by research over many years.

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How does the SEJ Process work?

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Through the SEJ Process training the student learns firstly to understand and become aware of their own mental health, in particular their physiological and psychological suffering, and their own personal triggers to suffering (minus any trauma response). They then learn a simple framework of self-enquiry consisting of just 4 steps laid out in a worksheet. By step 4 the student is at a point of physiological and psychological ease, and has overcome limiting beliefs and behaviours, enabling them to know the best course of action to take and as a result are able to reach their full potential.

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Eventually the student can stop using the worksheet as they will no longer be working the process it will simply work through them, a lot like learning to drive. At first the learner has to think through each step, however, soon the driving becomes automatic, practice is the key to success in both instances.

 

At an SEJ Process training event we share how to complete the worksheet, and delve into the theory behind it, although learning the theory is not essential to its success. To ensure continued practice we offer live weekly SEJ Practice Workshops where students can ask questions, receive practice corrections and share their successes.

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How does the SEJ Process compare to cognitive therapy?

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The SEJ Process offers much more than the traditional cognitive approach to therapy, which helps the client to see how their thoughts and feelings determine their unhelpful behaviours. Although this understanding is accurate and plays a role in the SEJ Process, crucially the SEJ Process goes a vital step further.

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Enabling the client to go beyond just 'seeing' why they have unhelpful behaviours, the process allows the client to change these behaviours, as they learn how to dis-identify from unhelpful, intrusive, limiting, and sometimes destructive thoughts. It is the ability to dis-identify from the mind that brings instant results, dissolving limiting beliefs and behaviours, with notable immediate physiological and psychological change. This results in the practitioner being able to reach their full potential moment to moment and self-manage no matter what life brings their way.

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The SEJ Process answers this statement:

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 "Don't just tell me not to listen to my thoughts, tell me how to not listen to my thoughts".

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This statement was made by a 15 year old who was visibly shaking with fear, overwhelmed by a life event, deeply distressed and unable to function. Within moments of doing the SEJ Process (with the support of a parent who had learned the SEJ) they were in a place of ease, a significant physiological and psychological shift occurred enabling them to take positive action, leaving them feeling both empowered and able to reach their full potential.

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Why is the SEJ Process the answer?

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The SEJ Process is both life changing and actively saves lives (see our SSPP).

 

If everyone, from students, educators, parents/carers, to employers, and employees were to learn the SEJ Process their ability to consciously communicate with themselves and others would become greatly enhanced. Far too many times educators, employees, and families have said they don't know what to say or do to help their students, colleagues, and loved ones. They know that any help needs to be immediate to stop any escalation of the problem and seriousness of the situation. Those put in a position to support e.g. educators often don't know how to help themselves with many leaving the profession due to stress and lack of support.

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When and if referrals are made the waiting times serve only to exasperate the problem, for others, tragically even if they do get help it comes all too often far too late. Many still, who seek external intervention, can't access mental health support because they don't meet the criteria and often can't afford private intervention. More still won't even ask for help for various reasons from stigma to difficult or unhelpful past experiences. We have learned from years of research that people want to learn how to empower themselves.

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The SEJ Process answers all these points, it is a truly collaborative and holistic approach to mental health problems and provision. With our SSSP and SMH Programme targeting educational settings, businesses and organisations, and training and services available for individuals via the website, together we can stop the mental health crisis and become a mentally healthy world that reaches its full potential.

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