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Something loose in cockpit. Something tightened in cockpit.
Unfamiliar noise coming from No. 2 engine.
Engine run for three hours. Noise now familiar.
Whining sound heard on engine shutdown. Pilot removed from aircraft.
Aircraft handles funny. Aircraft told to straighten up, fly right and be serious.
Annual summit (& ongoing knowledge sharing)
Journal Intro to Masters Education
Informing leadership development, coaching, change management, learning.
Self-funding research and education.
The neuroscience of:
• Making decisions & solving problems
• Staying cool under pressure
• Collaborating with others
• Facilitating change
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Away
Threat
Toward
Reward
Away
Threat
Toward
Reward Minimize danger Maximize reward (Gordon) Disengaged Engaged Uncertainty Interest Problem focused Solution focused Avoid Approach (Psychology) Contract Extend (Neuroscience) Dislike Like (Neuroscience) Tunnel vision Global view (Neuroscience) Data / reason focused Connection focused (Neuroscience)
• Increase motor functioning
• Reduce field of view
• Reduce working memory
• Significantly reduce insights
• Reduce ideas for actions
• Create more threat responses
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Away Threat
Toward Reward
Time
Emotional Engagement
Situation Selection
Attention Deployment
Aro
usal
• Expression
• Suppression
• Cognitive change
Purple Brown Red Blue
Red Green Brown Purple
Green Blue Purple Red
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Same or more arousal
Bad memory
Others uncomfortable
Less arousal
No change to memory
No affect on others
The ability to put words onto emotional
experiences decreases the limbic arousal
connected to that experience.
Actively changing an automatic
Interpretation of a situation
1. You are stuck in traffic
2. What do you already reappraise well, and
describe what you do.
3. Pick one of the 5 topics that create an away
state, reappraise that now with a partner.
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+ 50 - 50
Reappraisal Suppression
Environmental Mastery
Optimism
Positive Relationships
Life Satisfaction
What does it take to reappraise well?
1. Mindfulness (not being mindless)
2. Cognitive flexibility
3. Being able to see the positive in things
Defining mindfulness"
The opposite of mindlessness
How "
46.9% of the time
Killingsworth, & Gilbert (2010)
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Openly
Paying attention
In the present
Brown, Ryan & Creswell, (2007)
Resources
Books: Quiet Leadership - David Rock (Collins, 2006)
Coaching with the Brain in Mind - Rock & Page (Wiley, July 2009)
Your Brain at Work - David Rock (Harper Business, October 2009)
Other resources: www.NeuroLeadership.org - summit, graduate certificate, journal
WorkplaceCoaching.com - brain-based coaching programs
DavidRock.net - blog, interviews, audio, articles, research
Contact: [email protected]
