Advanced Foundations in Applied Neuroscience

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Course curriculum

1. Your KCI Certifying Partner: Bio
2. What is Advanced Applied Neuroscience?
3. Flipping key questions on their head: A shift from descriptive research to application
4. An Advanced Applied Neuroscience Coaching Process
5. Why do we need 10+ Neuroscience-based models? (optional)
6. Quick insight: top 10 Neuroscience-based models (optional)
7. Deeper mastery and higher certification levels
8. Quick Application tip: How does this apply to team or org levels?
9. Video: Advanced Programs - Certification in Applied Neuroscience
10. A modular approach (optional)
11. Treating this course as a mystery movie: What should I expect?
12. Expect an implicit program design (optional)
13. Foundations program curriculum (Optional)
14. Attending live sessions: What to expect?
15. Before we begin: Tell us about you
16. An invitation to engage with realistic expectations
17. Getting Started
1. How to use the workbooks?
2. How to take notes directly in a PDF document?
3. Workbook #1 (Take Notes): Modules 1-3
4. Workbook #1: Word format
1. Start of Module 1
2. Module 1 - What is this session about?
3. External vs. Internal Aspects of Difficult Change
4. Quick Application Tip: Why focus on creating an internal readiness for dealing with discomfort?
5. Video: The 5 factors of Difficult Change and Intro to Unlearning
6. Neuroscience & Difficult Change
7. Quick Application Tip: How do we know if a process requires Unlearning?
8. Neurosynaptic Patterns: What are we Unlearning?
9. Unlearning, Neurochemistry, and behavior - basics
10. How are response patterns strengthened in the brain?
11. Unlearning: Riding a bike
12. Neuroplasticity: what does it mean to rewire our brains?
13. Quick Application Tip: What exactly do we need to unlearn?
14. Brain Parts vs. Whole Brain Perspective
15. The intersection of neuroscience & difficult change
16. Video: Engaging the transformation systems in the brain - fly by
17. Engaging the transformation system in the brain
18. The rider and the elephant analogy: Jonathan Haidt
19. Quick Application Tip: How is engaging the Implicit system different than traditional coaching?
20. Stories, examples, and case studies as a way to engage the Implicit System
21. Your brain on story: Kendall Haven
22. Meaning making: How we form our identity
23. Lisa Feldman Barrett: Your brain doesn’t detect reality. It creates it.
24. End of module 1
1. Start of module 2
2. Module 2 - What is this module about?
3. The third factor that makes change difficult: Resistance
4. Understanding Threat Thresholds in the brain
5. Video: Resistance to Change - Introduction
6. Quick Application Tip: What can we do if there is an external cause for resistance?
7. The 4th factor that makes change difficult: Insufficient mastery of Change-Readiness Skills (CRS)
8. Video: Neuroscience-based skills - fly by
9. A loving reminder to please respect and protect our IP
10. Change-Readiness Skills - Introduction to the 8 families and examples of 16 most common sub skills
11. Quick Application Tip: What if a client refuses to admit they are experiencing resistance?
12. The 5th factor that makes change difficult: Accountability
13. Video: Accountability - fly by
14. Quick Application Tip: How can we shift from depending on motivation to focusing on choice?
15. What Should I Expect from modules 3-12?
16. End of module 2
1. Start of module 3
2. Neuro Process Highlight: Unlearning building blocks
3. Questions about KCI's protected IP?
4. Video: Unlearning process general outline
5. What does Advanced Applied Neuroscience coaching feel like?
6. Ask yourself: Resistance
7. Overcoming resistance: most important focus
8. Quick Application Tip: When should we engage resistance?
9. The invisible side of resistance
10. Video: Resistance deep dive 1
11. Resistance in the context of coachable vs. non-coachable individuals
12. Video: Resistance deep dive 2
13. The Amygdala and PFC
14. Recording: Amygdala vs. BNST
15. Change requires the activation of the patterns we need to Unlearn
16. Quick Application Tip: How do we get clients to experience just the right degree of resistance?
17. How can we expose internal resistance?
18. Quick Application Tip: How do we know if Internal Resistance is overwhelming?
19. The importance of Internal Resistance
20. Quick Application Tip: What if there is no internal resistance?
21. Video: What does resistance look like?
22. Quick Application Tip: How do we overcome external resistance?
23. Not everything that looks like resistance is resistance!
24. Building courage
25. No need to dig in the past
26. Advanced Applied Neuroscience: Understanding resistance
27. End of module 3
1. Start of module 4
2. Workbook #2 (Take Notes): Sessions 4-5
3. Workbook #2: Word format
4. Ask yourself: Resistance
5. Quick Application Tip: What if the client is afraid of the success of the change?
6. Assessing Vulnerability
7. Video: Resistance deep dive 4
8. Using examples to expose and understand resistance
9. Quick Application Tip: How does resistance come up in the stories clients share?
10. Video: Resistance deep dive 5
11. Investment in your client's success
12. Lending a resistant client your PFC
13. Video: Accountability deep dive 1
14. Quick Application Tip: How can we increase resistance when needed?
15. Video: Accountability deep dive 2
16. Quick Application Tip: How can we hold the client accountable without accusing them of "resisting"?
17. The special case of Pleasers: Accountability
18. End of module 4
1. Start of module 5
2. Neuro Process Highlight: Change-Readiness Skills
3. Ask yourself: Change-Readiness Skills
4. Before we dive in: Managing expectations :)
5. Explicit vs. Implicit mastery of CRS: first 16 skills
6. Video: Intro to CRS Families 1
7. Quick Application Tip: How do we use CRS in the context of different applications?
8. One of the most important features of Change-Readiness Skills
9. Video: Intro to CRS families
10. Video: Intro to CRS 2
11. Quick Application Tip: What does it mean that CRS are fungible skills?
12. Introspection and Emotional Articulation: Understanding dissociation
13. Neuro Model Spotlight: Vertical Integration (Mind-body connection)
14. Video: Receptiveness family
15. Video: Seeing Reality family
16. Quick Application Tip: How do we understand personality from a Neuroscience perspective?
17. Video: KindExcellence family
18. Combining Expectations with Togetherness
19. Radical candor - Kim Scott
20. End of module 5
1. Start of module 6
2. Workbook #3 (Take Notes): Sessions 6-8
3. Workbook #3: Word format
4. Ask yourself: higher Change-Readiness Skills
5. CRS as Neuroscience-Based Skills
6. Growth Mindset vs. Fixed Mindset (optional)
7. Neuro Model Spotlight: From Fixed-Mindset to Growth Mindset
8. Quick Application Tip: Supporting clients to shift from Fixed-Mindset to Growth-Mindset
9. Video: Optimization family
10. Video: Analysis family
11. Video: Synthesis family
12. Neuro Model Spotlight: Bilateral Integration (The two hemispheres)
13. Quick Application Tip: How do we recognize the need for greater Vertical or Bilateral Integration?
14. Video: Synthesis vs. Analysis family
15. The two hemispheres and Synthesis vs. Analysis (Optional)
16. Right vs. Left brain (thinking and emotion)
17. Video: Mentoring family
18. Mirror Neurons
19. Quick application tip: What is the link between CRS and resistance to change?
20. Becoming familiar with all CRS
21. End of module 6
1. Start of module 7
2. Neuro Process Highlight: When to use assessments
3. Quick Application Tip: How do Neuroscience-based assessments fit into the coaching process?
4. Ask yourself: Neuroscience-based assessment tools
5. Quick Application Tip: Can we identify which CRS is needed based on behavior?
6. The Science of Neuroscience-based assessments
7. Brain parts, chemicals and Neuroscience-based assessments
8. Brain chemicals
9. Taking 3 online Neuroscience-based assessments
10. The contribution of each Neuro-based assessment tool to the KCI Diagnostic Report
11. The specific output coming from each assessment tool
12. How is the PRISM Brain Mapping assessment tool designed?
13. The 8 Dimensions of PRISM (optional)
14. How is the Leadership Index assessment designed?
15. How is the Solution Assessment designed?
16. Making Sense of the KCI Initial Diagnostic Report
17. Quick Application Tip: What do we learn from the diagnostic report?
18. KCI Diagnostic report sample - Anonymous
19. Quick Application Tip: Can we anticipate how people will resist based on the CRS they need?
20. How does the way we resist change come up in the KCI Diagnostic Report?
21. End of module 7
1. Start of module 8
2. From AAN principles to application example
3. Neuro Process Highlight: Unlearning Goals
4. Ask yourself: Stage 1 of the Unlearning process
5. Neuroplasticity
6. Video: Unlearning deeper dive
7. Video: Unlearning Goals
8. Goal setting - Three Types of Goals
9. Identifying Deep Implicit Unlearning Goals
10. Neuro Model Spotlight: The Immunity to Change Model
11. Lisa Lahey and a deeper understanding of how to define Unlearning goals
12. Article: Exploring the competing commitments concept of Immunity to Change (optional)
13. Quick Application Tip: The contribution of the Immunity to Change Model to defining Unlearning Goals?
14. Deep Motivations for Unlearning Goals
15. Neuro Model Highlight: NLP and goal-setting
16. Quick Application tip: Defining goals that are true to our client's core
17. Quick Application Tip: How can we talk to the right part of the brain when defining Unlearning Goals?
18. Implicit techniques for exploring Unlearning Goals
19. Potential Explicit Questions to Support Identifying Unlearning goals
20. How will You Know You Have "Reached" Unlearning Goals?
21. Quick Application Tip: How to distinguish a behavioral goal from an Unlearning goal?
22. Video: Unlearning goals and Neuro-based assessments
23. Additional Resources that May Help with Goal-Setting (optional)
24. End of module 8
1. Start of module 9
2. Workbook #4 (Take Notes): Sessions 9-11
3. Workbook #4: Word Format
4. Neuro Process Highlight: Revisiting Explicit vs. Implicit
5. Ask yourself: Systems in the brain
6. Video: Explicit vs. Implicit intro
7. The illusion of Motivation and Willpower
8. Memory reconsolidation
9. Prof. Murali Doraiswamy about how memory forms (optional)
10. Video: Rules of engaging the Implicit System
11. The importance of ongoing practice
12. The 5 languages spoken by the brain
13. Neuro Model Highlight: Integrating the A.G.E.S Model for the purpose of engaging the right systems in the brain
14. Quick Application Tip: What is the A.G.E.S Model used for?
15. The stories we tell ourselves may block memory re-consolidation
16. Your client's narrative
17. How does the brain "make up" our narratives?
18. Michael Gazzaniga: Your Storytelling Brain
19. Alan Watts: When You're Thinking, You’re Actually Listening
20. Quick Application Tip: How can we use stories as a change mechanism?
21. If using the KCI approach to transformation
22. Philipp Humm: Storytelling
23. Quick Application Tip: Which criteria make stories lead to transformation?
24. Episodic and Autobiographical Memory: Is it Explicit or Implicit? (optional)
25. End of module 9
1. Start of module 10
2. Ask yourself: Assigning meaning and Stage 2 of the Unlearning process
3. Video: Assigned meaning
4. A quick example of how assigning meaning affects the way we respond
5. Neuro Model Spotlight: NLP and Engaging the Implicit System
6. Three NLP Principles
7. Quick Application Tip: How to identify and resolve distortions and deletions
8. Manipulating memories to best serve us
9. NLP and storytelling
10. What can we learn about people from the way they tell stories? - An NLP Exercise
11. Neo meeting the Oracle (The Matrix)
12. Learn from your intuitive exercise about NLP
13. Using NLP to identify an inaccurate definition of a skill (by using storytelling)
14. Video: Unlearning Stage 2 (Experience-based definition)
15. Quick Application Tip: Using stories to ensure accurate definition
16. "Breaking free" of past programing
17. Quick Application Tip: What does it look like in practice when we use a "mismatch"?
18. End of module 10
1. Start of module 11
2. Ask yourself: Stages 3-5 of Unlearning process (overcoming resistance, creating sustainability, and application)
3. Limbic system vs. Prefrontal Cortex, and Implicit System vs. Explicit System
4. Neuro Model Spotlight: Integrated Brain and why we respond ineffectively to discomfort - Dan Siegel's hand model
5. Quick Application Tip: how can we support clients to be more integrated when they are overly emotional?
6. Neuro Model Spotlight: Neuroception
7. Video: Unlearning Stage 3 (Resistance & Neuroception)
8. SCARF vs. Neuroception - Minimizing external triggers vs. building internal resilience
9. The SCARF model explained
10. Neuro Model Spotlight: SCARF (NeuroLeadership Institute)
11. Video: Unlearning Stage 3 (Fight, Flight, Freeze)
12. Neuro Model Spotlight: Polyvagal Theory and fight, flight, freeze responses
13. Quick Application Tip: How can we support people who enter a "freeze" state in this process?
14. Video: Unlearning Stage 3 (Regression and Freeze)
15. Video: Unlearning Stage 4 (Sustainability)
16. Neuro Model Spotlight: The LNHP Sustainability Model
17. Video: Unlearning Stage 5 (Application)
18. Detachment from outcome
19. Developing self-compassion
20. End of module 11
1. Start of module 12
2. Ask yourself: Application, and Integration
3. Using Advanced Applied Neuroscience Coaching to Expose Otherwise Invisible Obstacles
4. Integration: From a Neuroscience perspective, which obstacles does the process need to overcome?
5. Advanced Applied Neuroscience Process Highlight: Integration
6. Application Example Review: Engagement
7. Application Example Practice: Resilience, Inclusion, and Leadership
8. The Neuroscience of Resilience
9. Adopting greater resilience
10. Exploring Social Neuroscience
11. The Neuroscience of Racism and Inclusion
12. The Neuroscience of Leadership
13. For those interested in ICF Credit
14. Congrats! Here is what's next...
15. End of module 12 and the Advanced Foundations in Applied Neuroscience program :)
1. Neurohype: A Field Guide to Exaggerated Brain-Based Claims
2. Undoing one’s past -PDF
3. What zombies can’t do: A social cognitive neuroscience approach to the irreducibility of reflective consciousness - PDF
4. Thinking about the future versus the past in personal and non-personal contexts - PDF
5. Learning Experience and Neuroplasticity – A Shifting Paradigm - PDF
6. The hippocampus and imagining the future: where do we stand? - PDF
7. The Future of Memory: Remembering, Imagining, and the Brain - PDF
8. The functional neuroanatomy of autobiographical memory: A meta-analysis -PDF
9. The Effects of Rehearsal on the Functional Neuroanatomy of Episodic Autobiographical and Semantic Remembering -PDF
10. Temporal and Cerebellar Brain Regions that Support both Declarative Memory Formation and Retrieval - PDF
11. Reading fiction and reading minds: the role of simulation in the default network - PDF
12. Storytelling agents: why narrative rather than mental time travel is fundamental - PDF
13. The NeuroPsychology of Narrative
14. Saving For Your Future Self: The Role of Imaginary Experiences - PDF
15. Remembering the past to imagine the future - PDF
16. Mental time travel and the shaping of the human mind - PDF
17. Mental time travel and default-mode network functional connectivity in the developing brain - PDF
18. Brains creating stories of selves: the neural basis of autobiographical reasoning - PDF
19. Staying cool when things get hot: emotion regulation modulates neural mechanisms of memory encoding - PDF
20. Mediating Successful Emotion Regulation - PDF
21. Retrieval of Emotional Memories - PDF
22. Social Cognitive Neuroscience- PDF
23. Social Cognition and the Brain: A Meta-Analysis - PDF
24. Self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-transcendence (understanding the neurobiological mechanisms of mindfulness) - PDF
25. Remembering and imagining differentially engage the hippocampus - PDF
26. Hippocampal Involvement in Future Simulation - PDF
27. A role for the hippocampus in encoding simulations of future events - PDF
28. Emotion suppression reduces hippocampal activity during successful memory encoding - PDF
29. A common functional brain network for autobiographical, episodic, and semantic memory retrieval - PDF
30. Constructive Episodic Simulation: Temporal Distance and Detail of Past and Future Events Modulate Hippocampal Engagement - PDF
31. Default Network - functions
32. Default Mode Network vs. Task Positive Network
33. Meeting George Bush versus Meeting Cinderella - PDF
34. Consciousness as memory system
35. Mirror neurons for execution, observation, and imagery - PDF
36. The Chameleon Effect: The Perception-Behavior Link and Social Interaction - PDF
37. Activation of the Left Inferior Frontal Gyrus During Perceptual and Conceptual Self-Referential Thinking - PDF
38. Emotional content and reality-monitoring ability - PDF
39. Counterfactual thinking: an fMRI study on changing the past for a better future - PDF
40. Brain mechanisms of persuasion: how ’expert power’ modulates memory and attitudes - PDF
41. Amygdala and dorsal anterior cingulate connectivity during an emotional working memory task - PDF
42. Neither an Optimist Nor a Pessimist Be: Mistaken Expectations Lower Well-Being - PDF
43. A common functional brain network for autobiographical, episodic, and semantic memory retrieval - PDF
44. Dopamine error signal to actively cope with lack of expected reward
45. New learning and unlearning: strangers or accomplices in threat memory attenuation?
46. Additional research articles
47. Book recommendations

About this course

$1,800.75
317 lessons
33 hours of video content

Advanced Foundations in Applied Neuroscience

Course curriculum

Before we begin...

Workbooks - take notes

Module 1: Introduction

Module 2: Introduction continued

Module 3: Deep Dive Into the Neuroscience of Resistance

Module 4: Deep Dive Into the Neuroscience of Resistance & Accountability

Module 5 : Change Readiness Skills (CRS) & Intro to First 3 CRS Families

Module 6: The 5 Less "emotional" CRS Families

Module 7: Neuroscience-based Assessments

Module 8: Unlearning Goals

Module 9: Deeper Dive Into Explicit vs. Implicit Systems

Module 10: Assigned Meaning and Stage 2 of the Unlearning Process

Module 11: Unlearning Stages 3-5 (Overcoming Resistance, Creating Sustainability, Application)

Module 12: Applications (putting it all together)

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