COM-B

Michie, Stralen and West (2011) set out a COM-B model of behaviour change: behaviour (B) occurs as the result of interaction between three necessary conditions, capabilities (C), opportunities (O) and motivation (M).

Capability is defined as the individual’s psychological and physical capacity to engage in the activity concerned. It includes having the necessary knowledge and skills. Motivation is defined as all those brain processes that energize and direct behaviour, not just goals and conscious decision-making. It includes habitual processes, emotional responding, as well as analytical decision-making. Opportunity is defined as all the factors that lie outside the individual that make the behaviour possible or prompt it. (Michie et al. 2011: 4)"

Comment: In our context, we hope to:

• Develop behaviors that increase the chance for long-term survival.

To achieve this:

• We hope to cultivate the capability to democratically coordinate, socially trust and collaborate, non-adversarially deliberate, collectively imagine and narrate, and constructively communicate.
• We hope CStoicism's direct-democracy, nomic, conversations and engagements are opportunities to practice these capabilities and behaviors.
• We hope to motivate by communicating internally and externally CEStoicism's perspective of degradation and renewal, signs and meaning, living systems' self-coordination, ends and means, and an ethical spirituality of humane interdependence.