Amateur Social Scientist Approach: A Guided Hub

The Amateur Social Scientist Approach is a proprietary structured way of observing your own patterns, decisions, and behavior with clarity and distance. This library is designed to be followed step by step. Each article builds on the one before it. 

The Amateur Social Scientist is the posture used throughout the Reflection Series and the Cow Path Model of Change™—it provides a way to observe your patterns before trying to change them.

Begin with the Orientation, then move through the four pillars below.



Pillar 1 - Observing Yourself




Pillar 2 - Understanding Influence




Pillar 3 -  Learning From Patterns




Pillar 4 - Guiding Change


These ideas can also be explored through guided reflections in the free Reflection Series.


© Terri Lee Cooper – Cow Path Model of Change™