Advanced Foundations in Applied Neuroscience

Self-Study: Advanced Foundations In Applied Neuroscience

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Course Curriculum

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

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$975.00
299 lessons
33 hours of video content

Self-Study: 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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