Attention Process Training Program: 10 Evidence-Based Coaching Practices

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Practices that may help

  1. Attention Training Technique (ATT), Made Practical
    The Attention Training Technique (ATT), developed by Adrian Wells, is a structured auditory exercise that rebuilds voluntary control over where attention goes — directly countering the self-focused, threat-locked attention that sustains anxiety and health anxiety. Randomised trials support its effectiveness as a standalone and as part of Metacognitive Therapy.
  2. Selective attention to individual sounds
    Deliberately focus on one distinct sound source among several and hold attention there.
    Attention Training Technique (ATT), Made Practical
  3. Attention training technique (ATT)
    Practice deliberately shifting attention across sounds — a drill that builds attention flexibility and reduces self-focus.
    Metacognitive Therapy, Made Practical
  4. Daily 12-minute ATT practice
    Run the full three-phase ATT session every day as a skill, not a relaxation ritual.
    Attention Training Technique (ATT), Made Practical
  5. Attention Management, Made Practical
    Maura Thomas argues that the limiting constraint on productive knowledge work is not time — everyone has the same 24 hours — but attention: the ability to direct focus intentionally toward chosen work rather than being pulled reactively. Her attention management framework builds practices around controlling attentional choice, reducing reactive digital stimuli, and developing the skill of proactive, intentional focus. This is a practitioner framework aligned with attention and self-regulation research rather than a formally studied protocol.
  6. Rapid attention shifting between sounds
    Switch attention between sound sources on cue, making each shift deliberate and immediate.
    Attention Training Technique (ATT), Made Practical
  7. Use improved attention to observe metacognitive beliefs
    Apply attentional control to notice — without engaging — the beliefs that drive overthinking.
    Attention Training Technique (ATT), Made Practical
  8. Attentional Deployment, Made Practical
    Attentional deployment is James Gross’s term for deliberately directing attention within a situation to change its emotional impact. Because emotion is partly determined by what we attend to, shifting attention toward or away from specific aspects of a situation can modify the emotional response without changing the situation itself. It includes both distraction (shifting away from the emotion-generating aspect) and concentration (focusing on specific features that generate a different emotional response).
  9. The Formula First-Session Task and Between-Session Noticing
    Assign between-session observation tasks that direct attention toward what’s already working.
    Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: Building On What Works
  10. Redirect from self-focus to external attention
    When anxiety spikes, deliberately anchor attention to a specific external sound or object.
    Attention Training Technique (ATT), Made Practical

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