1% Change: The Daily Path to Real Transformation

Most people wait for the perfect moment to change their lives. They wait for motivation, clarity or a breakthrough. Yet fundamental transformation rarely happens in big, dramatic moments. It happens through small, consistent shifts. A 1% change, repeated day after day, reshapes your emotional world, your habits, and your sense of identity.
This webinar explores the science and psychology behind micro change. Through the lens of Schema Therapy, we uncover why people struggle to maintain progress, why they collapse into old patterns and why they underestimate the power of small steps. You will learn how emotional schemas, such as failure, unrelenting standards and deprivation, sabotage long-term change and how tiny, manageable adjustments can bypass resistance and build stability.
With grounding practices, daily structure strategies and mirror-based exercises, this session shows you how to create change that lasts. One per cent at a time. Slow, gentle and powerful.
And remember, all video recordings are free to watch with a free registration at www.closebyyou.com.

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# Programme

### 1. The truth about change

• Why do people wait for significant breakthroughs
• Why most change fails before it begins
• The neuroscience of small, consistent actions
• How 1% builds identity, not just habits

### 2. Schema Therapy and resistance to change

• Failure schema and the belief that progress will collapse
• Unrelenting Standards and the pressure to do everything perfectly
• Emotional Deprivation and the fear that nothing will ever work
• Subjugation and pleasing others instead of caring for yourself

### 3. The psychology of micro change

• Why the brain prefers small steps
• How consistency rewires emotional patterns
• The difference between motivation and momentum
• How repetition creates safety inside the nervous system

### 4. Identifying your one percent

• The smallest possible action that still creates movement
• How to choose a step that your emotional system will accept
• Shifting from intensity to continuity
• Examples for emotional, relational and behavioural areas

### 5. Building a 1 % Daily Routine

• Five-minute grounding practices
• Simple routines that stabilise the emotional brain
• Using micro change to reduce anxiety, anger or avoidance
• The emotional benefit of predictable actions

### 6. Overcoming the schemas that sabotage progress

• How perfectionism kills consistency
• How fear of failure prevents starting
• How avoidance steals momentum
• How to respond when your schema gets triggered

### 7. Mirror-based work for identity change

• Seeing the part of you that is afraid to grow
• Reassuring the vulnerable self through reflection
• Reinforcing small wins with compassion
• Exercises inspired by Mindful Interbeing Mirror Therapy

### 8. Long-term transformation

• How 1% becomes 10% and then 100
• How to recover after a setback without collapse
• Building a Healthy Adult identity through micro decisions
• Why small beginnings create lifelong direction

### 9. Final guided practice and Q&A

• A grounding exercise to integrate your 1% shift
• Unrecorded Zoom space for sharing and questions