A New Way of Thinking About Behavior

What if the question isn't whether the problem is the person or the environment?

For decades, behavior support has focused primarily on changing the behavior of the individual. We have measured compliance, reduction, frequency, duration, and intensity. We have built interventions around what people do.

At the same time, behavior does not happen in isolation.

Behavior emerges within relationships, environments, histories, expectations, communication systems, and patterns of reinforcement. Individuals influence their environments, and environments influence individuals. Everyone within a system is responding to and affecting the ecosystem around them.

Happy Medium 3.0 represents the next evolution of the Happy Medium Approach—a measurable, contextual behavioral framework that expands our focus beyond the individual while still recognizing personal responsibility, skill development, and behavior change.

The question is no longer only:

"How do we reduce this behavior?"

The question becomes:

"How do we increase workability for everyone within the system?"

What You'll Learn

In this engaging and thought-provoking CEU experience, you'll discover how to move beyond traditional behavior reduction models and begin measuring the variables that truly influence skill access, flexibility, participation, and meaningful outcomes.

You'll learn how to:

✔ Move beyond an individual-deficit lens while still supporting individual growth and accountability

✔ Evaluate behavior through the lens of contextual fit and environmental responsiveness

✔ Measure relational safety as an observable and behaviorally relevant variable

✔ Assess fluctuations in skill access across self, social, and contextual domains

✔ Identify how appetitive and aversive contingencies shape participation for everyone within a system

✔ Use practical assessment tools to evaluate both individual and ecosystem variables

✔ Design interventions that build flexibility, communication, responsibility, and generalized workability

Introducing Happy Medium 3.0

Happy Medium 3.0 is more than an intervention model.

It is a contextual behavioral operating system designed to help professionals understand behavior as part of a larger field of interaction.

Drawing from:

• Applied Behavior Analysis
• Radical Behaviorism
• Interbehaviorism
• Constructional Behavior Analysis
• Contextual Behavioral Science
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
• DNA-V

Happy Medium 3.0 provides a measurable framework for evaluating both individuals and the systems in which they participate.

The Shift

Traditional Question

"What is wrong with the learner?"

Happy Medium 3.0 Question

"What variables within this ecosystem are affecting skill access, flexibility, participation, responsibility, and workability?"

Featured Tools and Frameworks

Participants will be introduced to the foundational components of the Happy Medium 3.0 ecosystem:

ABC Skill Access

Measure fluctuations in skill availability rather than assuming skills are always accessible.

The Noticing Grid

A contextual observation framework for identifying generalized workability, narrowing flexibility, and rigid responding.

Relational-Informed Support Scale (RISS)

A practical system for evaluating flexibility, engagement, and relational responsiveness.

Contextual Support Alignment Scale (CSAS)

A tool for assessing how well environments support participation, autonomy, predictability, and connection.

Appetitive and Aversive Control Mapping

A framework for understanding how reinforcement and coercion shape behavior within systems.

People Files

A proactive way to identify what helps or hinders regulation, engagement, and participation across contexts.

Who Should Attend?

This training is designed for:

• Board Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBAs)
• BCaBAs
• Clinical Supervisors
• School-Based Behavior Specialists
• Educators
• Mental Health Professionals
• Interdisciplinary Teams
• Professionals seeking person-centered, relationship-based, and contextual approaches to behavior support

Why This Training Matters

The future of behavior analysis requires us to look beyond behavior reduction alone.

It requires us to ask:

• Is the environment workable?
• Is the relationship supportive?
• Is the learner accessing the skills they already have?
• Are all members of the system responding effectively to one another?
• Are we building flexibility or merely suppressing behavior?
• Are we measuring both individual performance and ecosystem variables?

Happy Medium 3.0 offers a practical and measurable framework for answering those questions.

Learning Objectives

CEUs for BCBA and IBA

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

1. Describe the conceptual foundations of Happy Medium 3.0 within contemporary behavior analysis and contextual behavioral science.
2. Differentiate individual-focused behavior reduction models from ecosystem-based behavioral frameworks.
3. Identify measurable variables that influence skill access, flexibility, participation, responsibility, and workability.
4. Apply the ABC Skill Access framework to case conceptualization and intervention planning.
5. Define and evaluate observable indicators of relational safety and contextual fit.
6. Use the Noticing Grid, RISS, and CSAS frameworks to assess behavioral ecosystems.
7. Analyze the role of appetitive and aversive control within educational, clinical, and family systems.
8. Design constructional interventions that increase generalized workability across contexts.

The Takeaway

This is not a course about abandoning behavior analysis.

It is a course about expanding it.

Happy Medium 3.0 invites behavior analysts to move from measuring behavior alone to measuring both individual performance and the ecosystem in which behavior occurs.

Because lasting change happens when people take responsibility for their behavior, develop meaningful skills, and participate in environments and relationships that support success.

From Behavior Reduction to Ecosystem Workability.

Recording always avaialble after the live event! 

Thursday June 18th and 25th from 1-4 MDT VIA Zoom