Attention Training Script: 10 Evidence-Based Coaching Practices
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Practices that may help
- 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. - Selective attention to individual sounds
Deliberately focus on one distinct sound source among several and hold attention there.
Attention Training Technique (ATT), Made Practical - Attention training technique (ATT)
Practice deliberately shifting attention across sounds — a drill that builds attention flexibility and reduces self-focus.
Metacognitive Therapy, Made Practical - 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 - 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 - Rapid attention shifting between sounds
Switch attention between sound sources on cue, making each shift deliberate and immediate.
Attention Training Technique (ATT), Made Practical - Prepare "if-then" self-talk scripts for predictable pressure moments
Pre-script your self-talk response to the specific situations most likely to derail you.
Self-Talk Strategies, Made Practical - Use instructional self-talk for precision skill tasks
Use short technical cues that direct attention to the key movement parameter rather than the outcome.
Self-Talk Strategies, Made Practical - Train flexible attention
Practise deliberately moving attention between external cues and internal experience — and back.
Detached Mindfulness, Made Practical - 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
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- When I try to lock onto one thing, my attention slides off it within seconds and I have to keep dragging it back
- My attention feels welded to the inside of my own head
- All day my attention goes straight to what went wrong
- I only ever try to wrangle my attention once I’m already spiraling, when it’s far too late to work
- Once my mind latches onto a worry I genuinely cannot pry it loose
Related concerns
- Attention Training Techniques
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.
- Attention Focus Training Cbt
Practice deliberately shifting attention across sounds — a drill that builds attention flexibility and reduces self-focus.
Attention training technique (ATT)
- Attention Focusing Exercises
Deliberately focus on one distinct sound source among several and hold attention there.
Selective attention to individual sounds
- Attention Switching Exercise
Deliberately focus on one distinct sound source among several and hold attention there.
- Attention To Detail Training
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.
- Attention Training
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.
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