Hexaflexercise: 100th Birthday

This brief experiential exercise is part of a series of "Hexaflexercises" derived from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which situates the enhancement of psychological flexibility as its overarching goal. This particular exercise utilizes temporal perspective-taking to facilitate contact with personally chosen values - our heart's deepest desires for how we want to live our life.

Transcript

It's your 100th birthday party. And someone you know gets up and makes a toast. Sharing what they most appreciated and admired about you over the years. In the ideal world. Where you have been the person you desire to be for the rest of your days. What would you want to hear them say? How might they finish this sentence? I've known so and so to be. Now imagine that you never got any recognition for being this person. The toast didn't occur. Would living this way still be meaningful to you? In and of itself. If so. . . You've just connected with your core value.