About Adaptable Sustainable Psychology

Humans have always evolved and changed to overcome the uncontrollable events that impact their lives.  How comfortable that process is and how we manage our finite emotional and psychological resources is under our control. With more of us on the planet, with all our unique needs and wants, the goalposts of life are shifting quicker than ever. Having an Adaptable Sustainable Psychology (ASP) to provide us with a variety of life-skills is essential for our growth and for our personal capacity to thrive. 
 
Being Adaptable
Adaptability allows us to navigate the unfamiliar or the unexpected events that occur in life. By being adaptable we can free ourselves from the overwhelmingness of past experiences and reduce future fears. It provides us with the opportunity to update in real time to situations that have the potential to cause us adverse stress or pain, and pick a pathway that minimises negative impacts. 

Being Sustainable
Whilst adapting however, we also need to be assessing sustainability. By knowing ourselves well, and having an understanding of what helps us and what harms us, we are more likely to make an informed, safer choice. This limits the possibility that our actions could create problems for us further down the track. Through a calculated risk assessment, based on our knowledge of ourselves, we can eliminate or minimise risks of draining our energy, emotional fatiguing ourselves or depleting other finite self-resources. 

Our coping needs to be adaptable to the conditions and at the same time it needs to be sustainable. Our mental wellbeing has a symbiotic relationship with our capacity to be better managers of our stress. 

An ASP Lifestyle
There is no shortage of good ideas to help improve your lifestyle, the way you work or how your company can be more efficient and effective. With all the best intended and streamlined processes put into action to reduce stress and thus increase success or productivity, unless the human at the end of those ideas is functioning at their best, they will not work. If we cannot adapt and sustain these processes will, unfortunately, ultimately fall short. 

Sitting at the heart of successful ASP is psychodiversity. Biodiversity refers to the variety of plant and animal life in the world or a particular habitat. A high level of biodiversity is usually considered to be important and desirable as each part contributes to support other parts, benefiting the whole system. Psychodiversity is the variety of ways we have of seeing, being, coping and feeling to manage whatever we experience that affects our wellbeing. From having numerous ways of managing situations, we can support ourselves and still contribute to those around us. Someone who is aware of what is not serving them and then adapts in accordance with this, who is able to be present and thus manage their emotions without being overwhelmed, acting without creating a cost to their future self would be considered as being high in psychodiversity.

Being a psychodiverse solution finder, while armed with insight about yourself and the world means you can see what a safe, content and coping you looks like.
 
How Adaptable Sustainable Psychology Can Work for You
ASP is performance science made accessible for everyone. Through diving into the complexity of you who are, including the good and the not so helpful, ASP helps you find which strategies will work for you and when.

It is a way of living your life that is uniquely tailored to work with your strengths and simultaneously able to care for your vulnerabilities. Sadly, we will all experience hurt and pain. But by being mindful of this and caring for yourself with regards to how this affects you and others you can transform the experience and lead yourself to function better and feel more at ease. 

When it comes to getting the best out of the people leading, managing or working in your organisation an ASP approach is going to provide the best platform for increased productivity, higher efficiency, greater collaboration and significant growth. Thanks to your consideration to care beyond their work performance your people learn how to live all aspects of life better. Content and calm staff will always produce better results.

ASP maximises ideas from different branches of psychology and personal growth including: neuroscience, polyvagal theory,  positive psychology, performance/sport psychology, cognitive behavioural therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, mindfulness and hope psychology.

​ASP takes the best of what is known so you can be the best you have ever known. 

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Meet the Creator of ASP

Amberley created ASP through her extensive experience of working with people for over quarter of a century.

By combining the best of aspects of numerous evidence-based therapies Amberley has put together a step-by-step guide that helps you build a picture of who you are. How you came to be this way. And, most importantly, how you can create and sustain the type of change that will serve you in the long-term.

Every step of the way Amberley introduces practical exercises to help you integrate knowledge and develop skills that will lead you into a place of sustainable adaption.

Her work with ASP is relevant and of benefit to individuals, leaders, organisations and the collective harmony of the planet. 

Amberley Meredith B.Sc., M.Sc. MAAPi

Amberley Meredith M.Sc. has been a counsellor in the UK and a psychologist Australia and New Zealand since 2001. She has run her own private practice for over 25 years, specializing in trauma, stress-life management and health psychology along the way. Amberley has consulted with individuals, companies, and run retreats and workshop programs in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Spain. Providing services to frontline workers, high profile athletes, district and regional health services, veterans, business leaders, and trauma survivors.  She has published her own children's books on how young people experience emotions throughout their childhood.  Amberley believes both from her professional and own personal experiences that without adaptability and sufficient psychodiversity we are not sustainable and we suffer more than we need to. ​

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Organisations we have worked with:

Conscious - Communing - Connecting