Life is in hyper-drive. Our default is to go faster, do more and strive higher. Evidence shows we have passed the point of diminishing returns. We have lost our minds – and maybe our bodies – to overload and confusion. The solution is to SLOW DOWN. The payback is great – higher productivity, creativity, health,
Discerning Minds: take in the good
Richard Whitney reviews a workshop with Dr Rick Hanson a Neuropsychologist and author of Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love and Wisdom, (2009). In a nutshell the challenge is to train our minds to favour a responsive and positive bias in attention, emotion and memory. Hanson describes the brain in three (Triune) layers.
Resilience and Intensity
There is a view that Resilience will only emerge if we are tested beyond our comfort zone. At times we are thrown into adversity or novelty. Today, we must volunteer for the experience. We will explore intense practices to test and build resilience of body, heart, mind and spirit. Hypothesis: growth, development, and specifically our
Awaken your Mind
Our minds are being tested well beyond the limits of “normal”. The global market is complex, fluid and furiously competitive. The information density confronts the functional limits of our mind. All too often the result is overload, confusion and mindlessness. We pay in missed opportunity, error, conflict, sleep disruption, anxiety, and frustration. We suffer! Leaders
Creativity and Resilience
Creativity and Innovation are at the heart of Human evolution… View
Empathy and Power
Leadership is the highest expression of our nature, experience and willpower… View
Beyond Sustainability
Resilience is topical in economic, business, environmental, community and individual arenas… View
The Biology of Productivity
Economics satisfies basic needs. Biology can help us reach our full potential. View
Resilience, Health and Ageing
Alongside the sustainability risk to our planet, health is the most serious issue facing humanity… View