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with Mark Robert Waldman
Executive MBA Faculty, Loyola Marymount University
Faculty, Holmes Institute
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Network Neuroscience & the 4 Stages of Emotional Health
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Recorded Live January 9th 2024, 12 noon PT
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Network Neuroscience & the 4 Stages of Emotional Health
In this free master class , I introduce you to four qualities – states of “being” and “doing” – that are essential for neurological, emotional, and psychological health: Curiosity, Imagination, Awareness, and Play.
Each one of these states is regulated by a specific network in your brain:
Curiosity is driven by your Motivation Network, and it’s one of the core instinctual emotions that drive all living creatures (including the lowly worm!) to explore the environment, seeking ways to have pleasant, pleasurable and rewarding experiences. But in our current educational and psychological models, there is very little emphasis or training on how to tap into our deepest passions.
And many people confuse our passionate drives with desires that are mainly products of our Imagination/Default Network. This creative process is stimulated by our natural curiosity, and it can be witnessed through conscious daydreaming and observing the zillions of thoughts and feelings that are offering possible ways to achieve specific goals in the present moment consciously experiences. This is known as mind-wandering: Too much creates anxiety and too little creates apathy but, again, teachers and coaches rarely offer tools to regulate activity in this very important brain network. This is why I created the NeuroCoaching protocols that can solve most psychological problems in one or two sessions.
Awareness is the third stage of emotional development and we can use it to stimulate our Salience Network which is responsible for keeping an optimal balance between other key networks in the brain. Awareness is different from attentiveness, and my presentation strives to give you a brief experiential sense of this largely undeveloped cognitive skill.
The Salience Network helps to identify what is important and valuable to pay attention to, and that’s when we can begin to “do” specific activities that are meaningful and will help us achieve our passionate goals. But doing anything well requires something more than focused discipline; it requires that we playfully immerse ourselves fully in present-moment activities, especially when it involves other people. And play – just like curiosity, imagination, and awareness – is often suppressed in today’s society.
These four stages of health, and the strategies provided through Network Neuroscience research, both challenge and transform the entire field of psychology and coaching, and for those of you who join my NeuroCoach training and certification program that begins next week, you’ll learn how to integrate these tools into your work and personal life in a way that can bring more peace and kindness into the world.
Enjoy the replay!
Mindfully Yours,
Mark Waldman
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If you’re looking for more in-depth experiential learning, my lifetime access NeuroCoaching Training is for you. This educational and experiential learning model utilizes brain-based and evidence-based strategies to enhance the outcome of the coach/client, therapist/patient, and teacher/student relationship.
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The Additional Training Video (mentioned in the video above)
Why Network Neuroscience Invalidates Current Psychology & Coaching Models
Beginning in 1990, neuroscientists realized that autobiographical memories are not stored anywhere in the brain and are actually unstable molecular processes are constantly being revised by our imagination and new experiences. More recent research in the field of network neuroscience has firmly shown that reflecting on past experiences – even traumatic ones – disrupts network functioning and interferes with the brain’s ability to regulate our emotions, feelings, and negative thoughts. And the most recent discoveries that how grown out of mindfulness research shows that there are three key elements that are essential for building emotional and psychological health: Remaining anchored in present-moment awareness with a trusted person, describing one’s mind-wandering processes in a highly interactive and spontaneous dialogue, where each person slowly speaks about 10-20 words and then pauses to listen to person’s brief comment.
When both people continually return to present-moment awareness, mutual empathic rapport is neurologically stimulated. This alone balances key brain networks in a way that rapidly builds emotional and cognitive health, and any therapy that excludes these principles will not be more effective than placebo. In this 24-minute video I explain why it is essential to teach people how to develop present-moment awareness whenever they enter into an important conversation with others.
You can personalize the NeuroCoaching strategies and teach them to your clients one on one, or you can apply these brain-changing techniques to any size group – to couples, to families, to boardrooms, to classrooms, to convention halls – in just a few hours.
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