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What I see in these brain maps… (neuroscience of possibility)
I've been spending time preparing for our first live session of the Super-Regulators™ Neuroscience Academy. And one of the things I've been doing is going back…
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Your nervous system is part of the gift
There are people in the world right now who will experience new possibilities because of something YOU help them learn, understand or experience. Through…
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Week 2: the neuroscience of finding your voice
We may already know from experience that a particular approach helps people. We recognize patterns in our work and see changes happening in the people we…
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Self-Regulation only works with this…
As humans, we are born with nervous systems that learn about navigating the world through our experiences with other nervous systems. And this continues…
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You don’t see reality directly: How Eckhart Tolle, Neuroscience and Systems Thinking agree..
You don't see reality directly. You see your brain's prediction of reality,.. ...a statistical best guess built from everything you've experienced, learned…
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Why understanding regulation changes how we teach it
One of the things I find fascinating about nervous system regulation is that knowing a technique and understanding what our nervous system is actually trying…
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The Brain Activity that Comes Before the Answer 🧠✨
Your neural circuitry often needs something before it needs a solution..   There's a moment right before we reach for an answer, when a different form of…
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Serve & Return: We build brains together
Our brains are built through vibrational serve-and-return exchanges. A massive amount of the data our brain uses to build its algorithms and predictive models…
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The Hedgehog’s Dilemma: A Nervous System Problem (and why we need each other)
Some of our most powerful brain capacities are built, strengthened and expressed in relationships with other human beings. We need other nervous systems. And…
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How “Soft Skills” Change the Brain: The Neuroscience Behind Skills That Often Get Dismissed
One of the things we are exploring in our work at MIT is how ideas from wisdom and contemplative traditions might help human beings access greater levels of…
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The human mind-brain-body as a liberation technology
We have ‘experience-dependent’ brains. Our brains are shaped by what happens to us. The past has an influence in the present. AND.. the beauty of…
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The science of an adaptable human: how many nervous system options do you have?
Something you’ll hear me say a lot… The goal of nervous system regulation is not to be calm all the time. We are human beings moving through changing…
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Shifting the burden: What Happens When We Outsource Self-Regulation
You (as a human) weren't born knowing how to self-regulate. But you were born with a human brain. A brain that can continuously, throughout life.. learn…
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The Nervous System Between Us: your vibrations become a part of what happens next…
  Your nervous system helps YOU navigate an environment. AND… Your nervous system becomes part of an environment other people are navigating. At every…
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There is biology underneath your wisdom
You are a Pattern Recognition Creature. You (often without knowing it).. Have a sense of what seems to help people change .. and what keeps getting in the way…
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The neuroscience of why change is so hard
One of the things I’ve had the honor of working with over the years is triangulated data* *nerd alert :-)   ..bringing together:   1) what people…
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Nervous System Leadership: The Rise of Super-Regulators
What if the most powerful leadership emerges from those who have mastered the art of self-regulation? Not only leaders who can regulate themselves, but those…
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The ‘Neural Valley’ of Learning & Growth
I wanted to give you a little glimpse into what we’ll actually be doing together inside the Super-Regulators™ Neuroscience Academy. Week 1: The 'Neural Valley'…
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Your nervous system contribution: your frequencies affect more than you can see.
There are billions of people living and interacting and thinking in this world. And I sometimes think about how special it is for someone to devote even part…
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The Myth of “Acceptable Feelings” (and the science to debunk it)
There’s a story we’ve been told about emotional regulation that doesn't quite match reality. Somewhere along the way, the narrative became about finding the…
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Neuroscience of Critical Hope with Dr. Kari Grain
Hope is one of our most extraordinary human capacities. It allows us to sense possibility before we can fully see the path toward it. To imagine that something…
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“But I already know growth mindset…” Perfect. Now explore the brain architecture underneath it
I know, I know… you already know growth mindset.. It’s been around for long enough now. Most of us are tired of hearing about it.   You’ve seen the two…
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“Soft skills” are biological mechanisms of change
One of the questions we explore in our work at MIT is: How do we help wisdom travel? How do we help it move across disciplines, people and institutions that…
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Wisdom asks us to be changed
Wisdom asks us to be changed by what we encounter. What does your brain do with information that doesn't fit?   Something we understand about the brain…
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When nervous system tools meet a fixed mindset
The mindset you have at work may change when you're in a challenging relationship or social interaction.   Many of us have learned about growth mindset as…
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The first time I watched an adult brain update
  Before I taught neuroscience, I taught French to diplomats and government officials. Many of them expressed to me doubts about their ability to learn…
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What Nervous System Literacy actually means (it’s different than names of nervous system states)
I use the phrase nervous system literacy to talk about ‘how we talk about’ nervous system regulation - whether it’s about states, tolerance, regulation, tools…
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You have no idea you’re doing this (an intelligence that doesn’t need your instructions…)
There are trillions of processes happening inside you right now. Signals are moving between cells and systems, your brain is making predictions from incoming…
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Why our brains repeat what isn’t working.. even when we’re ready for something to change
Change has a metabolic cost. Our brains are very.. VERY good at conserving energy when possible. Of preserving what is already very well-worn and used…
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Your Nervous System is a Wise Being
There is so much information coming at us about how to optimize, regulate, breathe, count… how to upgrade our brains and nervous systems. It can be easy to be…
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The Super-Regulators Neuroscience Academy is Now Open
There is a particular kind of magic that happens when a group of people gathers around one question: How do we help human beings access more of their own…
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Nervous-System-Science: 3 things I don’t do to reach people who resist ‘self-help’
  “The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.” — William James, Principles of Psychology (1890)…
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A question that neurologically opens us
A question I see come up a lot in coaching, facilitation, and teaching work is.. A question I see come up a lot in coaching, facilitation, and teaching work…
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Why I stopped separating mindset from nervous system regulation
Our brain is a prediction machine.   It is constantly running models built from its history - and then using this to predict and filter data about what's…
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The Neuro-Architecture of Possibility
Mindset isn't just a 'soft skill', 'yay, just believe in yourself!' topic... It's part of the predictive architecture that leads people to interpret effort…
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What gets lost when we label a nervous-system state?
A familiar word can narrow what we notice next.   What if you can be in “flight” without going anywhere? When we say flight, we’re often talking about…
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You may know more neuroscience than you think: Especially if you’ve spent years paying attention to people.
I've spent almost two decades measuring nervous systems and mind-brain-body signals.. Brainwaves, heart rhythms, skin conductance, eye movements, facial…
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A mindset mistake many of us make
One phrase I hear a lot is: “limiting beliefs.”   And I understand why. I’ve used it before, and it helps give a sense of something that holds us back…
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How neuroscience can actually WEAKEN your teaching
There's a strange moment happening with neuroscience right now. More people than ever know words like: Dopamine, ‘prefrontal’,neuroplasticity. And I love that…
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The nervous system skill that changed a 5th grader’s behavior
Miss Stefanie! I have an indicator!” A 5th grader taught me something about nervous system literacy.   ...   Years ago, when I was working as a…
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The brain doesn’t have one “growth mindset”
Someone can genuinely believe: “People can change.”   And still believe: “I can't change this.”   There is not one single “growth mindset” for each…
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“Name it to tame it” is only part of the story
One of neuroscience's most popular phrases leaves out something important.   “Name it to tame it.” is a phrase made popular by Dr. Dan Siegel*. *He was a…
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How back-to-school/work brain activity can keep us stuck
Back-to-school, back-to-work… and sometimes back to old predictions.   There’s a particular kind of energy emanating in the world for many of us right…
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How neuro-words can make us “know” less
Sometimes, the more nervous system language we learn, the less closely we look at the nervous system. “If you don’t obscure things with names, you can sense…
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Nervous System Science: How We Learn to See Beyond Our Past
As children, we don't get to choose what our environment is or what kind of system we are a part of. Since we don't get to choose, we must adapt. That's part…
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The Nervous System Cost of These Uncertain Times
"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it." -Marcus Aurelius*   We are living in a time of so much dysregulating nervous system…
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Neuroplasticity and the robot in the trash can
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…
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The science of why mindset changes behavior: the formula we’re often taught is backwards
Research shows us that when it comes to behavior change, we have been using a formula that is completely backwards: When we focus on performance or results, we…
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The Neuroscience of the shadow: Nervous systems sense what we leave out
Whether you call your work mindset coaching, leadership development, learning design, or something else.. if you're working with human behavior and growth…
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Start in the shadow: the nervous system’s dark side
i love that brains can change. I get excited to talk about neuroplasticity.   But something I've learned over many years studying and teaching the biology…
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The neuroscience behind “soft skills”
Meditation. Breathwork. Somatics. Mindfulness. Emotional regulation. These things are changing people's lives every day. But what I have observed over many…
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Mixed, Messy Feelings: why our brain needs contradictions
"Feelings can annoy or delight us, but that is not what they are for […]. Feelings are for life regulation, providers of information concerning basic…
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Bravery has a biology: how the brain learns to move toward
  So much of what we might consider 'brave' or courageous is actually intertwined with something less obvious.   A lot of what we also might consider…
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Two kinds of uncomfortable: what the brain can’t tell apart
The brain is an energy-conserving system. When something requires effort and doesn't come with a guaranteed return, it gets tagged as be cautious. That tag…
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Your nervous system as a bio-collective contribution
We are vibrational beings. At every moment, we are transmitting frequencies and vibrations that reflect our internal state, whether we realize it or not…
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What I see in brains and hearts that gives me confidence
For almost 20 years, I've been watching what happens inside people while they're trying to learn, change and grow. I’ve looked at brain activity, heart…
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Information exhaustion has a brainwave signature: these two words can alter our brain activity
We are in an era of information exhaustion. So many ideas and words coming at us every day, every hour.   What we don’t always realize:   Every piece…
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Don’t seek calm, seek this: what brainwaves have taught me
An aha I had many years ago as I worked with brain waves and heart rate variability in an intensive outpatient clinic... ... was that many people were arriving…
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The problem with memorizing brain parts: Why neuroscience explanations age better when they’re based on systems
What happens when the neuro-buzzwords and theories everyone is using turns out to be incomplete? When we build our explanations on someone else's terminology…
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The neuroscience aha my students never forgot
Years ago I was a school and family counselor. I had recently finished graduate studies at NYU, where I got to take part in incredible research at the…