Learning Lab
Discover how the latest insights from the world of neuroscience can make a difference to you as a coach.
How Can You Begin Coaching with Neuroscience?
As a coach you are working with people’s minds and brains, so it follows that logically you ought to have a certain amount of knowledge about how these things actually work. You should already have a good awareness of the core coaching models - most coaches will have...
Regret. A Strategy for Change?
If you look back over your life, do you have any regrets? Although many people try to leave their regrets behind, they often have a tendency to linger on. Maybe a decision you made which caused your life to temporarily take a turn for the worse. Which caused you...
Music Based on Your Brainwaves? Is This the Return of the Mozart Effect?
I was flipping through articles, music playing in the background when a headline caught my eye. Neuroscience can now curate music based on your brainwaves, not your music taste it proclaimed. My immediate thought was who would want that? People know that if they feel...
My Reality is Different to Your Reality
“It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.” This quote is attributed to Bill Watterson, the American cartoonist, and author of the famous Calvin and Hobbes comic strip. It’s not clear if he intended humor or...
Hijacked: When Reason Runs Away
In the last few articles, we’ve taken a little trip through time and space. Using the “Triune Brain” model first proposed in the 1950s and 60s as our guide, we’ve discussed how Paul D. MacLean pictured the brain evolving in response to increasingly sophisticated and...
Meet Your Limbic Brain: An Introduction for Coaches
This is part 3 of a series designed to give coaching professionals an overview of the structure and functions of the brain. By the end of the series, coaches will have developed a sufficient understanding of the complex processes occurring within the brain to enable...
Meet Your Lizard Brain: An Introduction for Coaches
This is part 2 of a series designed to give coaching professionals an overview of the structure and functions of the brain. By the end of the series, coaches will have developed a sufficient understanding of the complex processes...
The Triune Brain: An Introduction for Coaches
This is part 1 of a series designed to give coaching professionals an overview of the structure and functions of the brain. By the end of the series, coaches will have developed a sufficient understanding of the complex processes...
Overriding Confidence
Lack of confidence can cause a multitude of problems: inability to lead, make decisions, even get a job in the first place. Overconfidence is sometimes seen as merely an annoying personality trait; kind of a necessary side effect...
Learning from Neuroeducation
Neuroscience is being applied more and more to the field of education. For decades, psychology has produced an immense variety of theories on the ways children learn and what methods can best educate them. Now, the advanced...