Who Needs Willpower - The Science of Self Control - Nick Barratt

Nick presents a behaviour analytic conceptualisation of self-control, and discuss how, if we understand and apply the science, we no longer have to explain goal achievement in terms of willpower.
Nick is a Board-Certified Behaviour Analyst with 21 years of experience using behavioural science to teach people the skills they need to get the life they want. He specialises in setting-wide and individually focused Positive Behavioural Support, provides clinical supervision to other practitioners, and uses behavioural principles to enable people and organisation to achieve their goals. He is the director of the Barratt Behaviour Change Consultancy, and chairs the Applied Behaviour Analysis Forum, a London-based professionals’ group he co-founded in 2008. Nick has served on the board of the UK Society for Behaviour Analysis for 5 years and is a member of the Positive Behavioural Support Academy. In 2014, Nick co-authored a book called Feeling Cross and Sorting it Out, which focuses on the interactional nature of challenging behaviour.