I remember years ago working with a young man that was ready to abandon his science project.
I had created a “BRAIN camp” through a wonderful education organization, where I taught students and staff about mindset, brain plasticity and self-regulation.
This young man came up to me after one of our workshops and told me that he had been feeling lost and helpless about a science project he had been working on.
After learning about how his mindset was influencing his reactions to his mistakes, he took his robot out of the trash and decided to keep working on the project.
He even told me that he realized that life was going to keep giving him “more and more mistakes and dips” that he would need to go through so he could build even more “brain strength”.
His perseverance gave me extra strength and encouragement to keep sharing this kind of information.
How we teach Mindset matters.
Through all of these experiences, I didn’t have a word or specific phrase for what I was teaching.
I didn't use the phrase ‘growth mindset’ because I’d never heard of it.
I just explained what I knew about the most recent research in neuroscience. I was explaining the brain and how it can be shaped and molded into what we want it to be.
Leaders, parents, students and teachers resonated with my lessons because it reflected what they already knew.
They could sense - deep down - that there was a power within them that they wanted to unleash and show themselves and the world.
I was able to give them an explanation for the change and growth they were experiencing- an explanation rooted in facts and science.
Once people heard these principles of learning and the brain, they saw themselves differently.
They would respond to this new information with:
their own new ideas or efforts to learn something they had never attempted before,
to keep going on a project or skill they were about to quit, or
try to create a new way of responding within their relationships.
Learning about the mechanics of mindset and the malleability of the mind helped people:
see more clearly how they could shape their thinking, and
gave their brains the stamina needed to try new things and see mistakes as data for their own evolution.
They learned that this new mindset didn’t happen because someone was simply using a catchphrase and saying “I know you can do it!”, but because the laws of nature and neuroplasticity could help them achieve it.
Through neuroscience, we can offer others a new way to look at themselves.
No matter what kind of mindsets we are surrounded by, with the right type of learning and support…
.. we - as leaders and professionals - can help others play with new perspectives and use their minds in the brilliantly adaptive ways they are designed to be used.
Wishing you brilliant adaptiveness…
Stefanie
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This is what I’d like to share with you.. the Teach Mindset Science framework is from a deep passion of mine to help people understand:
the power of mindset,
the ‘mechanics’ of how mindsets get built (including the dark side of our own past) and
how we can use the nature of our brain architecture to co-create new mindsets that allow us live our power and potential as adaptive, complex, wise and intelligence beings.
The framework includes::
micro modules,
Downloadable reflection. handouts,
previous slide presentations I've actually used for workshops,
the Neuro-Influencer and Mindset, Discomfort and New Realities mini-books (pdf)
All of it is content you can copy, integrate and apply. (What i like to call the “CIA method”), and find ways to use for your own clients, workshops, content, (and anything else you might be offering to help people improve their lives )
Mindset is one of the key levers that need to be catalyzed in order for true transformation and intrinsic motivation to emerge.
This framework gives you an organized way of understanding and applying what i’ve learned from almost two decades of teaching mindset science.
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*To this day, I rarely use the term growth mindset when I’m leading a workshop. I usually use it in writing as a reference point because of how many people have heard of it. But other than using it that way, I generally am focusing on how to help people see themselves as powerful, adaptive beings - and I do that from the launching pad of self-directed neuroplasticity and self-regulation.
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I remember years ago working with a young man that was ready to abandon his science project.
I had created a “BRAIN camp” through a wonderful education organization, where I taught students and staff about mindset, brain plasticity and self-regulation.
This young man came up to me after one of our workshops and told me that he had been feeling lost and helpless about a science project he had been working on.
After learning about how his mindset was influencing his reactions to his mistakes, he took his robot out of the trash and decided to keep working on the project.
He even told me that he realized that life was going to keep giving him “more and more mistakes and dips” that he would need to go through so he could build even more “brain strength”.
His perseverance gave me extra strength and encouragement to keep sharing this kind of information.
How we teach Mindset matters.
Through all of these experiences, I didn’t have a word or specific phrase for what I was teaching.
I didn't use the phrase ‘growth mindset’ because I’d never heard of it.
I just explained what I knew about the most recent research in neuroscience. I was explaining the brain and how it can be shaped and molded into what we want it to be.
Leaders, parents, students and teachers resonated with my lessons because it reflected what they already knew.
They could sense - deep down - that there was a power within them that they wanted to unleash and show themselves and the world.
I was able to give them an explanation for the change and growth they were experiencing- an explanation rooted in facts and science.
Once people heard these principles of learning and the brain, they saw themselves differently.
They would respond to this new information with:
their own new ideas or efforts to learn something they had never attempted before,
to keep going on a project or skill they were about to quit, or
try to create a new way of responding within their relationships.
Learning about the mechanics of mindset and the malleability of the mind helped people:
see more clearly how they could shape their thinking, and
gave their brains the stamina needed to try new things and see mistakes as data for their own evolution.
They learned that this new mindset didn’t happen because someone was simply using a catchphrase and saying “I know you can do it!”, but because the laws of nature and neuroplasticity could help them achieve it.
Through neuroscience, we can offer others a new way to look at themselves.
No matter what kind of mindsets we are surrounded by, with the right type of learning and support…
.. we - as leaders and professionals - can help others play with new perspectives and use their minds in the brilliantly adaptive ways they are designed to be used.
Wishing you brilliant adaptiveness…
Stefanie
—-
This is what I’d like to share with you.. the Teach Mindset Science framework is from a deep passion of mine to help people understand:
the power of mindset,
the ‘mechanics’ of how mindsets get built (including the dark side of our own past) and
how we can use the nature of our brain architecture to co-create new mindsets that allow us live our power and potential as adaptive, complex, wise and intelligence beings.
The framework includes::
micro modules,
Downloadable reflection. handouts,
previous slide presentations I've actually used for workshops,
the Neuro-Influencer and Mindset, Discomfort and New Realities mini-books (pdf)
All of it is content you can copy, integrate and apply. (What i like to call the “CIA method”), and find ways to use for your own clients, workshops, content, (and anything else you might be offering to help people improve their lives )
Mindset is one of the key levers that need to be catalyzed in order for true transformation and intrinsic motivation to emerge.
This framework gives you an organized way of understanding and applying what i’ve learned from almost two decades of teaching mindset science.
*To this day, I rarely use the term growth mindset when I’m leading a workshop. I usually use it in writing as a reference point because of how many people have heard of it. But other than using it that way, I generally am focusing on how to help people see themselves as powerful, adaptive beings - and I do that from the launching pad of self-directed neuroplasticity and self-regulation.
