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NEURO-BRAIN BOOTCAMP Expanding Leadership and Creativity through the Miracle of Modern (Neuro)Science
Gina Paigen, PCC, CPCC, CNTC Chief Impact Officer
Two Roles
Role #1: Be fully immersed in your experience
Role #2: Hone your inner scientist (the watcher watching)
Who’s Here?
Dopamine: The “Save” Button
Dopamine, a neurotransmitter
is released when we…
• Are rewarded
• Engage in a new, exciting adventure
• Gamble (win or lose)
• Take certain drugs
The good news: It helps us retain information.
The bad news: It is sometimes called “the addiction neurotransmitter, as it motivates us to repeat certain unhealthy behaviors.
Agenda
1. The Creative Leadership Model
2. Stress and Stress Management
3. Right and Left Hemispheres
4. Neuroplasticity
5. Task-Positive Network and Default-Mode Networks
Designed Alliance
•Be here now
•Confidentiality
• Stretch yourself
•Bells, whistles and hands in the air
•What else?
What’s The Connection?
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Healthy Brain
Leader Brain
Creative Brain
Creative Leadership Model
Focus On Relationships (Engaging)
Focus on Results (Effective)
Focus on Collaboration (Inclusive)
Entrepreneurial Mindset (Creative)
Creative Leadership
RELATIONSHIPS RESULTS
STAB
ILITY CH
AN
GE
Stress Management
Amygdala In Men and
MEN’S AMYGDALA…
• More active without stimulus
• More connected to brain regions that deal with external stimulus
• Planning and execution of voluntary movements
• Coordinating motivation with body movement
• Relating vision to action
WOMEN’S AMYGDALA…
• Less active without stimulus
• More connected to brain regions that deal with internal stimulus
• Modulating emotional behavior
• Regulating aspects of the autonomic nervous system
• Parenting and attachment behaviors
Tools For Managing Stress MINDFULNESS
Helps manage stress, improves creativity, memory and emotional intelligence; puts attention on the present moment and away from past angers or future worries
REFRAMING (taking a new perspective) Activates the pre-frontal cortex, is a key skill for
mental health and life success
REFLECTING ON VALUES & LIFE PURPOSE Engages the pre-frontal cortex, provides a broader context for life and for decision-making, and a map for future direction
CONTROLING THE ENVIRONMENT An effective strategy if control is possible, does not address any
underlying triggers
NAMING THE EMOTION Reduces amygdala activity, can
become easier with practice
SUPPRESSION (not effective) Linked to depression and
emotional “leakage”
Right and Left Hemisphere
Left Hemisphere
Logic Reason
Linear Objectivity Positivity Analysis Rhythm Structure
Language
Anger Blame & Denial
Rigidity Conformism
Use People For Own Gain
Right Hemisphere
Emotion Big Picture Spatial Subjectivity Cooperation Metaphor Melody Inspiration Empathy
Fear Depression Emotional Overwhelm Hopelessness Chaos
The Integrator: Corpus Callosum
The corpus callosum is a bundle of neural fibers that connect the left and right cerebral hemispheres, and facilitates interhemispheric communication. It is the largest white matter structure in the brain.
Brain Myth Buster #1
Brain hemisphere dominance
The Truth of The Hemispheres
• The two hemispheres of the brain are specialized to perform certain tasks ("lateralization")
• Many individuals show a preference toward using one hemisphere in many cases.
• Despite this reality, we all use both sides of our brain to some extent, almost all the time.
• The phenomenon of Hemispheric Dominance (sometimes called "brainedness) is a grain of scientific truth blown out of proportion by pseudoscience.
Right and Left Hemispheres
LEFT Logic Reason
Linear Objectivity Positivity Analysis
Rhythm Structure Language
RIGHT Emotion Big Picture Spatial Subjectivity
Cooperation Metaphor Melody Inspiration
Empathy
Anger Blame & Denial
Rigidity Conformism
Use People For Own Gain
Fear
Depression Emotional Overwhelm
Hopelessness Chaos
Intuition
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Myth Busters #2
The brain’s hardwiring cannot be changed
Neuroplasticity
Neuroplasticity: The brain's ability to reorganize itself by forming new neural connections throughout life.
Fire and Wire
“Neurons that fire together, wire together.”
Being aware of what you are thinking is the first step.
Conscious and focused attention creates structural change.
Learning Zones
Comfort Zone
Stretch (Learning) Zone
Panic Zone
Sweet Spot
Neuroplasticity: The 5 Keys
EXERCISE NOVELTY SLEEP
FOCUS AND ATTENTION FOOD
Neuroplasticity – The 4 Enhancers
RELATIONSHIPS MULTI-SENSORY INPUT
HUMOR AND PLAY MISTAKES
BRAIN GAME
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Task Positive Network Default Mode Network
Two Networks Task-Positive
Network (TPN) activates with
attention-demanding tasks.
More concentrated in pre-frontal cortex
• Focus on task • Actively paying attention
(external) • Goal-orientation • Reacting to and working with
sensory information • Short-term (working) memory • Planning • Analytical and abstract reasoning • Anxiety
Default Mode Network (DMN)
activates when we are internally focused, when we are engaged
socially and when the brain is at wakeful rest.
More widely spread throughout brain
• Empathy • Social intelligence • Relationship building • Reflection and introspection • Visioning • Long-term memory • Self-referential thought • Rumination and depression
The Story of 2 Antagonistic Networks
• The TPN and DMN are anti-correlated; activation of one suppresses the other.
• The TPN is focused on results and the external world.
• The DMN is focused on the socio-emotional needs of others and the internal world.
• Great leaders easily switch from one to the other.
Leadership Equation
14% 12%
72%
1%
Results Focus RelationshipFocus
Focus on Both Leaders WhoDemonstrateFocus on Both
PERCEIVED AS GREAT LEADERS
To Activate the DMN
• Find opportunities to coach a different person each day around positive development (realizing hopes and dreams)
• Consider the impact of your decisions
• Make space for visioning
• Practice empathy and compassion
• Engage in self-reflection
• Brainstorm
• Meditate
• Breathe!
To Activate the TPN
• Get fully engaged in an activity
• Analyze and strategize
• Exercise
• Focus on outcomes and objectives
• Practice resource management
Myth Busters #2
Multitasking
The Truth About Multitasking
1. It is possible only if...
• At least one task is automatic (e.g., walking, eating)
• The tasks involve different types of brain processing.
2. What we call multitasking is actually serial tasking; rapid shifting from one task to another to another.
3. It is neither effective nor efficient.
4. As you shift, the transition is neither fast nor smooth.
5. Those who claim multitasking mastery make more mistakes, remember less, and take longer to complete focused tasks.
Try This…
To experience
the reality
of multitasking,
try this.
The Three (Not-So) Little Brains
Head (Cephalic) Brain 50-100B Neurons Logic, Reason, Knowledge.
Gut (Enteric) Brain 200-500M Neurons
Intuition
Heart (Cardiac) Brain 30-120K Neurons Emotion, Sense of Self
The Paradox of Neuroscience
We are here today because of our paradoxical nature
We are hardwired for fear AND we are hardwired for love
Questions
Inquiry
What Were…
3 Things That Were
Useful
2 Things You’ll Apply
1 Thing You’ll Do
Differently
