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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

© P T Brown 2019: slides may be used for professional purposes by webinar participants without seeking specific permission as long as origin is properly credited and referenced


Session 1: The basics facts about the brain – what it is and how it works.

Session 2:

Session 3:

What are we setting out to do together?

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Session 2: The new brain sciences – connectomics and epigenetics especially – and their implications, not least for leadership.

Session 3:


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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?


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:


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.


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 :


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 :


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 :


Bobby McFerrin at World Science Festival

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hodp2esSV9E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hodp2esSV9E


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?


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?


Webinar 1 / 3:

The brain and how it works: 1.01


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


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


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


So what powers it?[other than oxygen and glucose]


[survival]

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM

FREE

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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/

https://iedp.cld.bz/https:/iedp.cld.bz/

https://iedp.cld.bz/Developing-Leaders-issue-29-Spring-20181/26/


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


Mind…


M I N D

R E L A T I O N S H I P


M I N D

… through the continuous dynamic

integration of ….


Mind…


M I N D

R E L A T I O N S H I P


M I N D

… through the continuous dynamic

integration of ….


Mind…

… specified epigenetically by the Self.


Webinar 1: The brain and how it works

ANY QUESTIONS?


THANK YOU!

Paul Brown

2nd April 2019

“promoting excellence & ethics in coaching” · 2019. 4. 2. · session 1: the basics facts...

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