Less Negative Bias, More Positive Impact
Overcome Your Brain's Habits and Create a More Productive Reality
Description
Our brains are designed to be biased! We all have shortcuts, stereotypes, and "rules of thumb" that we use to navigate this big world of ours. But we don't often examine how or why we make up these stories nor do we notice how they make us behave—this can lead to big mistakes! Unfortunately, we humans can be overly sensitive, judgmental, and blaming which naturally causes conflict within ourselves and with others.
As you will hear in this course, when faced with my own misadventures, I decided I needed to smarten up! This course is filled with what I've learned in over 20 years as a Master Certified Coach where I have specialized, with my clients, in illuminating the inner stories that create outer behaviors. This is called Vertical Development, the ability to observe your own mind, your internal reasoning, your own inner stories, in order to consciously choose what you think. Amazing, right?!
This is a fun and practical course that: delineates how the brain automatically makes meaning, details how this process is not trustworthy, and demonstrates four ways in which to upgrade your thinking.
Each of us has so much power, right between our ears, to improve our experiences of the world around us. How I think and react, how you think and react, add up to what our daily lives feel like to us. The good news is that you can overtly choose, from a place of self-acceptance and humor to be an optimistic, creative person. Won't you come along for the ride?
What You Will Learn!
- Identify the steps of the automatic thinking process. (So obvious once you know them!)
- Observe how the brain makes meaning & explore why it's often negative. (When in doubt, be afraid--ugh!))
- Examine situations where you have a discouraging interpretation, a Rat Brain Loop. (Time to use the Big Brain!)
- Apply four Big Brain upgrades to your own life situations. (You get to change your mind, for good!)
Who Should Attend!
- Leaders who want to improve their self-awareness, who want to reduce defensiveness and cynicism, who want to develop greater levels of optimism and possibility.