Amateur Social Scientist Approach: A Guided Hub

The Amateur Social Scientist Approach is a proprietary social psychology-informed way of observing your own patterns, choices, behavior, assumptions, identity, and recurring responses over time before trying to change them.

In the Cow Path Model of Change™ ecosystem, this approach gives you a practical, self-directed way to study your own life with clarity, curiosity, and distance.

It focuses on noticing patterns, evidence, roles, environments, expectations, cues, repetition, and familiar responses in daily life.

This guided hub includes an Orientation and four pillars.

Begin with the Orientation to the approach, then move through the four pillars in order.




Pillar 1 - Observing Yourself




Pillar 2 - Understanding Influence




Pillar 3 - Learning From Patterns




Pillar 4 - Guiding Change


Weekly observations on patterns, identity, and change

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© Terri Lee Cooper, MSc, RSW – Cow Path Model of Change™