FOUNDATIONS IN APPLIED NEUROSCIENCE


 

Outline

Have you ever wanted to learn how to navigate, facilitate, and guide people through the stages of their internal transformation process?

 

This is an advanced program. It gives experienced coaches and change facilitators access to:

•  The Neuroscience of transformation - the ability to identify the obstacles and the stages along your clients' internal transformation journey (Unlearning).

• The know-how to deliberately and consistently guide people to adopt change in meaningful and sustainable ways.

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Since this program focuses on the science of transformation, it applies to numerous change areas such as:

• Effective communication

• Empathy

• Conflict resolution

• Resilience

• DE&I related topics

• Empowerment

• Growth-Mindset

• Curiosity and creativity

• Decision-making

• Psychological safety

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Over the past 17 years KCI certified and trained hundreds of coaches, consultants, and HR leaders to use Neuroscience-based models and support their clients through difficult change (see clients and referrals).

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This 12 week, intensive, small group program (limited to 6 participants per cohort) will provide you with an in-depth understanding of the top 10+ most critical neuroscience-based models for guiding people through difficult change. It will position you with a unique value proposition and allow you to support powerful transformation.

Curriculum

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• Sessions 1-2: Introduction to the Neuroscience of change

Explore the added value of neuroscience-based models to coaching, which 5 factors make change difficult from a neuroscience-perspective, and which neuroscience-model best supports overcoming each challenge. Introduction to concepts like Unlearning, engaging the right systems in the brain, overcoming resistance to change, adopting deep effective emotional skills for dealing with change-related discomfort, and creating a healthy accountability coaching structure. Introduction to Neuroplasticity and neurosynaptic activity in the brain.

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• Sessions 3-4: The Neuroscience of Resistance and Accountability

​Explore the important role of internal resistance as a mechanism for engaging emotional attention, identifying and overcoming less obvious (often invisible) forms of resistance to change, the chemical nature of resistance, Neuroception, how to better support vulnerability and emotional regulation during change from a Neuroscience perspective, the role of the Amygdala in threat detection and its dynamic with the Prefrontal Cortex (PFC), the neuroscience of building courage and resilience, how to assess and support the development of vulnerability, how to build ownership and enhance commitment for change, and a step-by-step process for building an effective accountability structure.

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• Sessions 5-6: Change-Readiness Skills (CRS)

​Explore what makes some skills Neuroscience-based, why certain skills increase brain integration and support our ability to increase tolerance to discomfort and ambiguity, and how to use conscious vs. subconscious skills. Learn about the 8 families of Change-Readiness Skills and how they:

- Improve Bilateral Integration and use mirror neurons in the context of optimizing performance and developing empathy.

- Allow us to overcome dissociation and integrate connections between the body and the brain as a way to develop awareness and mindfulness (Vertical Integration). 

- Provide us with deep emotional skills to overcome bias.

- Facilitate empathetic and inclusive responses without losing boundaries. 

- Support us in developing compassion, resilience, growth-mindset, effective decision making, effective communication, and inclusion, among other things.

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• Session 7: Neuroscience-Based Diagnostics

Explore the Science of Neuroscience-based assessments (brain parts and chemical activity), understanding 3 specific neuroscience-based tools (Prism Brain Mapping, Leadership Index, and the Solution Assessment), and how to use Neuro-assessments as a first step for improving performance, collaboration, empathy, vulnerability and other key abilities.

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• Session 8: Intro to Unlearning and Defining Unlearning Goals

​Explore which situations require Unlearning, the 5 stages of the Unlearning-relearning process, how to overcome obstacles between stages, 3 ways to facilitate re-wiring in the brain, identifying 3 types of goals (End goals, Task-Oriented goals, and Unlearning goals), deep motivations for Unlearning goals, and how to define Unlearning goals in a way that takes into account the whole person (using Immunity to Change model, deep motivations chart, and Neuro-linguistic Programing techniques).

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• Session 9: Creating the Conditions for Change Acquisition

Explore how to break past disruptive patterns clients are unaware of (because past filters make them blind to those patterns), use repetition and surprises to tap into role of the Hippocampus, get old cognitive and emotional patterns "unstuck", correctly engage both the Implicit System and the Explicit System, use the link between experiences and meaning to affect responses and thinking patterns, without depending on the limits of insight, awareness, and understanding when it comes to sustainable transformation, use Polyvagal Theory principles to establish an integrated brain-state, use Neuro-Linguistic Programing (NLP) techniques to support change adoption, and how to engage ​autobiographic memory to change behavior patterns and thinking habits by using memory re-consolidation.

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• ​​Sessions 10-11: The Last 3 Stages of the Unlearning-Relearning Process

​Explore how to bypass communicating solely with the explicit PFC (logically and rationally) and start communicating with the implicit Limbic System in its language, use Polyvagal Theory principles in the context of overcoming fight, flight, freeze responses, use SCARF Model principles to ​create a safe environment and reduce perception of external threat, use the systems in the brain in a way that leads to sustainable change acquisition (LNHP Sustainability Model and A.G.E.S Model), resolve the Knowing-Doing Gap, increase client independence, self-compassion, and ownership, putting in place sustainability mechanisms.

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• Session 12: Integration and Application

Integrating everything we discussed, learned, and explored in this program - putting it all together, as a step-by-step process, into different application contexts such as: effective communication, decision making, problem solving, resilience, conflict resolution, inclusion, and other specific application areas.

 

Bonus

Participants are encouraged to take advantage of a complimentary 1-on-1 session with a KCI Certifying Partner to explore a specific application area they are interested in. 

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