2. organize your mind for coaching

3. I could not do this without…
Paul
Hammerness, MD
Wilma
Koutstaal, PhD
Shelley
Carson, PhD
Ran
Zilca

4. Where is your mind right now?

5. Thinking High Control FOCUS Low Control FOCUS Experiencing
Carson, Moore, Zilca. 2014

6. Thinking High Control FOCUS Low Control FOCUS Experiencing Thinking?
Carson, Moore, Zilca, 2014

7. Thinking High Control FOCUS Low Control FOCUS Experiencing Thinking?
Mind Wandering?
High Control FOCUS
Low Control FOCUS
Experiencing
Carson, Moore, Zilca. 2014

8. Thinking High Control FOCUS Low Control FOCUS Experiencing Thinking?
Mind Wandering?
High Control FOCUS
Low Control FOCUS
Open Awareness?
Experiencing
Carson, Moore, Zilca, 2014

9. Thinking High Control FOCUS Low Control FOCUS Experiencing Thinking?
Mind Wandering?
High Control FOCUS
Low Control FOCUS
Open Awareness?
Narrow Awareness?
Experiencing
Carson, Moore, Zilca, 2014

10. Where is my mind now?

11. Flow Thinking High Control FOCUS Low Control FOCUS Experiencing
Carson, Moore, Zilca, 2014

12. Meta Awareness Thinking High Control FOCUS Low Control FOCUS
Experiencing
Carson, Moore, Zilca, 2014

13. Thinking High Control FOCUS Low Control FOCUS Experiencing Judge
Prepare
Strategic
Collaborate
Imagine
Mind Wandering
High Control FOCUS
Low Control FOCUS
Flow
Meta Awareness
Nonlinear
Embodied Learning
Narrow Awareness
Experiencing
Open Awareness

14. What is an organized mind?
Intentional
Agile
Deep
Hammerness, Moore, Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life, 2012

15. Why is it hard to organize our minds?
Low brain energy
Overdose of negative emotions
Chronic multitasking
Chronic distractions
Hammerness, Moore, Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life, 2012

16. We’re addicted to checking our smartphones
68%
A35-44
61%
A45-54
55%
A55+
36%
Lookout Mobile Mindset Survey, 2012

17. Distractions cause… 1,000+ car crashes per day 420,000 car crashes per year 3,300 deaths per year

18. Hacked, Hooked, Hijacked
Have to respond immediately
Not paying attention to other people
Feel restless when you are away
Stay longer than intended
Use to escape negative emotions
Hacked, Hooked, Hijacked
Ability to focus is impaired
Huffington Post: 6 Signs your Smartphone is Stressing You Out, 2013

19. If brain focus is impaired, we can’t remember, think, collaborate, create, learn, and perform at our best.

20. How can we organize our minds?
Physical Health: Upgrade brain energy
Mental Health: Tame your frenzy
Use your brain states well
Hammerness, Moore, Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life, 2012

21. 01 Upgrade Brain Energy EEG Measure of Attentional Resources
After reading
After 20 min walk
Upgrade Brain Energy
Hillman et al. The Effect of Acute Treadmill Walking on Cognitive Control and Academic Achievement in Preadolescent Children. Neuroscience 149 (2009)

22. Coach Meg’s Brain Foods
Alloway, T, Alloway, R. The Working Memory Advantage, 2013

23. 02
Tame your Frenzy
Hammerness, Moore, Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life, 2012

24. Emotions are biological messengers of met and unmet needs

25. Inner critic frenzy
You are not good enough
I am not good enough

26. Get Meta Notice & Name Emotion
Jon Kabat-Zinn, Mindfulness for Beginners, 2012

27. Five Facet Mindfulness Assessment
Awareness Not automatic pilot
Observing No interpretation
Describing Labeling
Non-judgment Acceptance
Non-reactivity Not carried away

28. Accept Every cell is doing the best it can with the resources it has at hand.
Neff K. Self-Compassion, 2011

29. Give negative emotions a little compassion…
Neff K. Self-Compassion, 2011

30. Growth Mindset
Dweck C. Mindset, 2006

31. Positive Emotions Improve Brain Function, Resilience, and Health
Fredrickson, B. Positivity, 2009

32. Your brain is energized and calm… ready for coaching sessions

33. Thinking High Control FOCUS Low Control FOCUS Experiencing Judge
Prepare
Strategic
Collaborate
Imagine
Mind Wandering
High Control FOCUS
Low Control FOCUS
Flow
Meta Awareness
Nonlinear
Embodied Learning
Experiencing
Narrow Awareness
Open Awareness

34. Be Present
Open Awareness

35. Be Curious
I wonder…

36. Judge You are not good enough.
Grant, A. Give and Take, 2013

37. Harness your Drive High Octane Energy for Focus
Deci, E. Why we do what we do?, 1995 (Self-determination theory)

38. Prepare
Carson, Your Creative Brain, 2010

39. Now the coaching session

40. Connect
Fredrickson, B. Love 2.0, 2013

41. Harness client’s drive High Octane Energy for Focus
Deci, E. Why we do what we do?, 1995 (Self-determination theory)

42. Imagine the Outcome
Carson, S. Your Creative Brain, 2010

43. Collaborate Create Mind Cloud
Carson, Moore construct, 2014

44. PEAK: Relational Flow? Let go a little
Carson S., Your Creative Brain, 2010

45. Embodied Learning Learn by Mind Meld with Masterful Expert

46. Embodied Learning This is what coaching presence does for clients
Carson, Moore construct, 2014

47. Creative non-linear, divergent
Carson, S. Your Creative Brain, 2010

48. Be Strategic Zoom out to 30,000 feet
Carson, Moore construct, 2014

49. Evaluate
Carson, S., Your Creative Brain, 2010

50. Gratitude

51. What about distractions?

52. You are deep in a brain state There is an interruption

53. Connect Prefrontal Cortex to Limbic System
Hammerness, Moore, Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life, 2012

54. Apply the brakes to distractions
ABC
Awareness
Breathe
Choose
Hammerness, Moore, Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life, 2012

55. Take brain breaks
Hammerness, Moore, Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life, 2012

56. Mind Wandering Brain Keeps on Solving Problems Out of Focus
Carson, Moore construct, 2014

57. Body breaks
Hammerness, Moore, Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life, 2012

58. Yoga

59. Narrow Awareness
Hammerness, Moore, Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life, 2012

60. Thinking High Control FOCUS Low Control FOCUS Experiencing Judge
Prepare
Strategic
Collaborate
Imagine
Mind Wandering
High Control FOCUS
Low Control FOCUS
Flow
Meta Awareness
Nonlinear
Embodied Learning
Experiencing
Narrow Awareness
Open Awareness

61. Thinking
High Control FOCUS
Low Control FOCUS
Experiencing

62. One’s own self is well hidden from one’s own self… Of all mines of treasure, one’s own is the last to be dug up Friedrich Nietzsche

63. organize your mind for coaching
Margaret Moore, aka Coach Meg