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Turn your mentalizing from reactive to strategic — connect, compete, or collaborate with insight. In this course you will explore the following six topics: 1. What drives us to mentalize strategically 2. Strategic mentalizing: To compete or cooperate? 3. Maintaining a healthy motivation to mentalize strategically 4. Detecting strategic mentalizing failures and pseudo-mentalization 5. Exploring eight theory of mind dimensions 6. How far does mentalizing go? Orders of theory of mind By the end of this course, you will be able to: · Understand what motivates you to use strategic mentalizing in different situations. · Recognize your main strategic orientation — whether you tend to mentalize to cooperate and connect or to compete and create distance · Maintain a healthy and balanced motivation for strategic mentalizing, improving the accuracy of your theory of mind reasoning · Notice when you or others are using strategic mentalizing for the wrong reasons or in unhelpful ways · Recognize when mentalization breaks down and how to spot signs of pseudo-mentalization · Understand how mentalization differs from social intelligence and why that distinction matters · Understand the eight dimensions of theory of mind reasoning · Practice interpreting others’ mental states at different levels of complexity — from simple perspectives to more advanced, layered reasoning. The components that guide your learning: 2 Videos 1 Theory exercise (learning retention) 2 Preparation exercises (establishing a baseline) 3 Observation exercises 3 Practice exercises 2 Evaluation exercises (assessing your learning progress) Your time commitment for the course: · The course takes about 10 hours to complete, but you can go at your own pace. · You will have access to the course for 12 months from the date you enroll, so there’s plenty of time to learn, practice, and revisit the material.