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Wisdom Questions to help your brain: information overwhelm to agency
Information Overload: The Wisdom to Ask Why We Consume We are drowning in information. Every scroll, every notification, every breaking news alert tells us that if we pay attention to them, we’ll be ‘more informed’. But somewhere within ‘being informed’…
Your nervous system is designed for this work
The world is asking a question right now… Who will help us access our collective intelligence? Who will model what it looks like to trust inner wisdom while staying deeply connected? Who will facilitate the shift from…
Why Human Resilience Needs Neuroscience (And Why Neuroscience Needs You)
What is the difference between temporary change and transformation? It’s not another technique. It’s not 5 quick tips. And it’s not about working harder. True, authentic and lasting transformation lies in three interconnected dimensions: Mindset – the neuromechanics…
Resilience isn’t built by staying calm: how your brain-body actually heals
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Resilience isn’t built by staying calm. Resilience also doesn’t happen by following a script or filling out a worksheet. It’s built through rupture, repair, and range. It’s about in-the-moment-flexibility, adaptation, and widening our repertoire of strategies and scenarios of what we can handle. I love leading research teams on enhancing human performance and resilience. It helps us get clear about what we…
Why Nervous System Wisdom is Key to Real Change (Not Just Positive Thinking)
The beliefs we absorb from the people around us, and the language we use to describe our inner world all impact not only our mindset, but our nervous system state. The Science of Mindset + Nervous System Wisdom When…
Mindset Is Not Just in Your Head: Powerful Shifts Bridge Brain and Body
The body is not just a vehicle for our work, but the *stage* where every mindset shift becomes real. When we use the word ‘mindset’ we leave out the massive importance and intelligence of the body. A mindset shift is…
Mindset and Our Neurobiological Legacy
In the most recent Mindset Neuroscience workshop, we talked about helping ourselves and others expand into a Mindset not only of Neurobiological Competence, but into elevating Our Neurobiological Legacy. We have a chance, as humans on the planet right now,…
Micro-Signals of Authenticity: Beware False Growth Mindset
You can’t teach Growth Mindset only with words. This is because growth mindset is a ‘concept’. A concept is something abstract, like ‘passion’ or ‘perseverance’. Concepts are a way we try to use words to label experiences, behaviors and feelings….
We are Vibrational Beings…
Beyond the ‘meat’ of the brain… One of my favorite parts of facilitating programs and workshops is the incredible people that come together from all over the world… who join together to learn about the power of the human mind….
Do you see what I see? astonishing ways our past distorts reality
“Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that your are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm” -Donella Meadows Our past creates predictions. These predictions form our MINDSET….
To teach growth mindset, you don’t need to say growth mindset
Years ago, when I started teaching students and teachers about neuroplasticity and ‘Growth Mindset’, I never actually used the phrase Growth Mindset. In fact, I had never even heard of it! In the years that I studied the brain’s plasticity…
The Science of Why Mindset Matters: The Lens That Shapes Your Reality
“What a person sees “depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conception experience has taught him to see.” ― Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions No matter what kind of…