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“promoting excellence & ethics in coaching”
with Prof. Dr. Paul BrownAC’s Global Ambassador in Applied Neuroscience
Webinar 1/3 : 2nd. [then 16th. and 30th.] April 2019
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Session 1: The basics facts about the brain – what it is and how it works.
Session 2:
Session 3:
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Session 1: The basics facts about the brain – what it is and how it works.
Session 2: The new brain sciences – connectomics and epigenetics especially – and their implications, not least for leadership.
Session 3:
What are we setting out to do together?
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Session 1: The basics facts about the brain – what it is and how it works.
Session 2: The new brain sciences – connectomics and epigenetics especially – and their implications, not least for leadership.
Session 3: Putting it all together with some suggestions as to how to incorporate such knowledge into your coaching practice.
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So why is
knowing about the brain important
in the business of coaching?
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Everything we do in coaching is represented in and controlled by the brain (and heart and gut).
Whether we like it or not, a coaching contract is a contract to change someone else’s brain.
So the inescapable logic is that the essential professional knowledge base we need to have is about how the brain works. Technique and method are about how coaching
goals might be reached.
The first answer is a no-brainer:
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So if technique and method are about how, then
understanding something about the way the master controller - the brain - works lets us know about what we are doing and where we are going inside
that remarkable aspect of our client called …my Self.
We coaches have one of those too.
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One of the main drivers as to how the brain works is to do with the quality of each and every relationship
within which we have our daily existence. Coaching - and mentoring - are relationships of very
special significance. Professionally we need to conduct those relationships
at a better-than-social level. The relationship is the carrier signal for effecting
individual development and change.
The second answer is :
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21st century neuroscience tells us that human being are essentially energy systems not,
primarily, psychological systems. So the critical task in coaching is to understand the
person in terms of energy flow and how to (re-)direct that energy in the achieving of coaching
goals.
The third answer is :
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Everything that has meaning in our system comes from the way experience has been attached to emotion
and then attached to language.
All behaviour, including every thought, is underpinned by emotion and feelings.
Think e-motion / energy = actionNo longer I think, therefore I am, but
I feel, therefore I can think I am.
The fourth answer tells us that :
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Bobby McFerrin at World Science Festival
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hodp2esSV9E
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The brain works as an electro-chemical energy management system. It is shaped, and then behaviour is directed, by the
energy attached to the emotions (e-motions) as the brain responds adaptively
nanosecond by nanosecondin the best way it can
from its own algorithms of experienceto external and internal stimuli:
making sense for itself and offering its owner a chance to make up a story that makes sense – has meaning – for that
owner.
So what is it?
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1. Making the best adaptation for its owner that it can: the controller of the way energy flows.
2. Making meaning by telling stories* – very secondary to the first = bottom up not top down.
3. Staying in continuous dialogue with the heart and gut, integrating all sensory input for the best possible output.
4. Never making mistakes.5. The organ of relationship.
* only humans: for the rest we are as other mammals also are.
And what is it for?
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Webinar 1 / 3:
The brain and how it works: 1.01
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The TRIUNE BRAIN – Stem, Limbic system and Cortexadapted from Carter – Mapping the Mind.
Cortex:
the cognitive,
reasoning +
integrating
brain.
Limbic system:
the
mammalian
memory +
emotional
brain.
Brain stem:
the snake
brain.
Amygdala:
the guardhouse
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The TRIUNE BRAIN – Stem, Limbic system and Cortexadapted from Carter – Mapping the Mind.
Cortex:
the cognitive,
reasoning +
integrating
brain.
Limbic system:
the
mammalian
memory +
emotional
brain.
Brain stem:
the snake
brain.
Amygdala:
the guardhouse
EVOLUTIONARY +
in vivo DEVELOPMENT
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Cortex – the reasoning
+
cognitive brain.
Limbic system
the
mammalian brain.
Brain stem
- the snake brain.
Amygdala
the guardhouse
1. Data from all 5 senses is
immediately and
continuously assessed by
the amygdala for
emotional significance.
Internal data too.
The Tripartite Brain – Stem, Limbic system and Cortex.
Adapted from Carter – Mapping the Mind.
2. Limbic system
Distributes incoming data into cortical pathways
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So what powers it?[other than oxygen and glucose]
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[survival]
AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM
FREE
ZE
The London Protocol of the Emotions : © P T Brown 2018
https://iedp.cld.bz/https://iedp.cld.bz/Developing-Leaders-issue-29-Spring-20181/26/
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The brain’s activity creates what we see operating as
Mind…
M I N D
©P T Brown 2018 [ after Siegel (1999) ]
M I N D
The brain’s activity creates what we see operating as
Mind…
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M I N D
R E L A T I O N S H I P
©P T Brown 2018 [ after Siegel (1999) ]
M I N D
… through the continuous dynamic
integration of ….
The brain’s activity creates what we see operating as
Mind…
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M I N D
R E L A T I O N S H I P
©P T Brown 2018 [ after Siegel (1999) ]
M I N D
… through the continuous dynamic
integration of ….
The brain’s activity creates what we see operating as
Mind…
… specified epigenetically by the Self.
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Webinar 1: The brain and how it works
ANY QUESTIONS?
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THANK YOU!
Paul Brown
2nd April 2019
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“promoting excellence & ethics in coaching”