Do More of What You Care About (and less of what you don’t)
Turn your to-do list into values-based action, with Dr. Siri Ming
Drawing from Siri’s decades long coaching practice, as well as her book Finding Your Why and Finding Your Way, in this practical and engaging on-demand course you’ll learn to apply what you know—psychological flexibility, values-directed action, self-management — to your own relationship with time, work, and the choices that fill both. Whether you’re feeling stuck, spread thin, or ready for a refresh, this comprehensive course offers a compassionate, evidence-based framework for building a life—and a career—that works for you.
This course provides 8 BACB Learning CEUs.
Meet your instructor
Siri Ming, Ph.D., BCBA-D (she/her)
Siri is a behavior analyst, coach, and educator with over 30 years of experience helping professionals build lives and practices grounded in clarity, purpose, and compassion. A peer-reviewed ACT trainer and co-author of Finding Your Why and Finding Your Way, Siri’s work centers on the relationship between relational frame theory, psychological flexibility, and behavior analytic practice — and on what it looks like to apply that science across all levels of context, including one's own professional life. Whether you’re seeking better systems for managing time, clarifying purpose, or simply navigating the day-to-day with more intention, Siri’s courses are designed to meet you where you’re at.
Known for making complex ideas practical, Siri has been teaching and mentoring behavior analysts around the world throughout her career, emphasizing humility, collaboration, and socially meaningful outcomes. In addition to her courses with Constellations, she co-facilitates our practitioner lab and provides coaching and consultation for professionals and teams working in early language development.
Her work is grounded in values of rigor, generosity, and kindness—and a commitment to supporting professionals who are ready to go deeper in their practice.
Learn more about Siri’s work at www.siriming.com.
About the Course
What this course is built on
The course integrates two frameworks:
The Mindful Action Plan (MAP) is an ACT-based self-management tool combining repertoires of psychological flexibility with the framework of performance management. It gives you a structured way to identify what's getting in your own way — avoidance, overcommitment, rigid rule-following — and work with it rather than around it.
Personal Kanban is a visual performance and organizational management system built on two simple principles: visualize your work, and limit work-in-progress. Combined with the MAP, it becomes a values-directed prioritization tool that supports continual reflection and growth.
As a course designed for behavior analysts and other contextual behavior scientists, the application of these tools is also grounded in understanding your own psychological flexibility and executive functioning as behaviors in context—what influences your choices, what contextual supports help establish stimulus control for valued action, and how your own language serves to support or hinder doing what you care about most.
If you are a practitioner who…
feels the gap between what you know about ACT and behavior analysis vs how you’re actually managing your own time and work,
is interested in a theoretically grounded approach to self-management, with practical tools and enough conceptual depth to adapt them as your own context changes,
is willing to apply the same curiosity and self compassion to yourself as you bring to your clients…
Then this course is for you.
What you'll walk away with
A values-based framework for making decisions about how you spend your time
A working Personal Kanban system tailored to your own context
Practical skills for working with procrastination, overcommitment, and busyness as behavioral processes — not personal failures
A self-management approach that builds in curiosity, self-compassion, and continuous improvement
A different relationship with the concept of "time management" itself
What participants say…
What to expect
The course is fully on-demand — you move through the material at your own pace. Each module is designed to take about two weeks, though you'll set that pace yourself.
Within each module, you'll find:
Short video presentations covering the conceptual content
Readings and curated supplementary resources
Practical exercises you apply directly to your own work and life
Discussion threads where you can ask questions and get responses from Siri
You'll have ongoing asynchronous access to Siri throughout the course for questions, clarification, and support. All materials remain accessible after you complete the course.
Time commitment: Approximately one hour per week for lessons, plus whatever time you invest in the exercises — which is, by design, up to you. We recommend spacing out your time to do one 15-20 minute lesson every other day or so, giving time to practice and reflect in between.
Course Outline
Module One—Mindful Action Planning: Finding your why and finding your way
What is “time” anyway, and what does it mean to manage it?
Doing what you care about: Values and valuing
Overview of the MAP: All the ways we get in our own way
Psychological flexibility=mindful action
Module Two—Personal Kanban: Mapping work/Navigating life
Being “busy” vs being overwhelmed
Doing what you care about: Values, goals, and actions
Visualize your work
Limit work-in-progress
Choose how you spend your time
Module Three—Mindful Action Planning: Building psychological flexibility
“Procrastination” and “busyness” as experiential avoidance
Skills for psychological flexibility: being present, noticing, accepting & flexible self-ing
Managing how you spend your time
Module Four—Curiosity, Self-Compassion and Kaizen: Problem-solving with MAP + PK to stay on your path
Being curious: Noticing what gets done
Subjective well-being as a metric
Planning for change: Self-compassion and flexible rule-following
The Joy of Missing Out: Accepting your limits and choosing your failures
Time management as a cooperative act
Kaizen: Continual improvement
Learning Objectives
Experiential Objectives
Clarify values and craft (or refine) a mission statement(s) to guide your choices
Use Personal Kanban to prioritize and choose valued actions
Use the Mindful Action Plan to work with internal barriers (experiential avoidance) and build psychological flexibility
Use the Mindful Action Plan performance management strategies and other time management tactics to improve organization and accomplish goals
Use the Mindful Action Plan + Personal Kanban in a cycle of continuous (and curious and self-compassionate) review and improvement (Kaizen)
Technical/Educational Objectives
Define psychological flexibility from a behavior analytic perspective.
Define values & valuing from a behavior analytic perspective.
Conceptualize “choice” from a behavior analytic perspective.
Describe organization, performance, and time management strategies and tools (including Personal Kanban and the MAP) from the perspective of self-management, rule governance and stimulus control
Describe “internal” barriers to accomplishing tasks (i.e. avoidance) from the perspective of psychological flexibility/inflexibility as complex languaging behavior.