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I'd like to share a foundational insight into "the brain behind change." Our brain is highly adaptive (thanks to neuroplasticity), but it's also like a cautious explorer, checking to see if it's safe to change 🔎 This is because the brain's primary function is SURVIVAL (not thinking). 🧠 It seeks out situations that feel safe and rewarding.  🧠 It avoids situations that feel threatening and risky. 🐯 While sabre-toothed tigers might no longer be chasing us, and contexts in the modern world differ, our brain still runs on the SAME evolutionary efficiency. So, when it comes to the impact on change, presenting it based on logic alone may not be enough. We delve deeper into this understanding in the new Brain-Friendly Change course, that I had the honour of co-creating with the Agile Change Leadership Institute. The course explores the brain's FOUR key organising principles and offers multiple change actions for each, providing a guide on how to design for change with our brain's preferences in mind (and this just scratches the surface on how we help you turn applied neuroscience concepts into effective, practical action and brain-friendly change experiences). If you haven't already, click the link below to learn more about designing for change with the brain in mind 🧠 Take me to the course ▶ ▶ https://lnkd.in/guQgrRV2

Did you see the special offer? The first 100 enrollees can have their brain friendly change approach (strategy or plan) reviewed by one of the team within 30 days of finishing. How's that for closing the knowing - doing gap! https://buff.ly/3WCBKWS

We are so very grateful to our early birds who have been working through the course and submitting feedback. Every single lesson was reviewed and changed as a result of feedback for the better. Thank you Susan Danner, Parul Sharma and Richard Kingston for these lovely words!

And we are LIVE with our latest course Brain-Friendly Change. Bought to you in partnership with #BrainsOnChange superstar Michelle Teunis This short course of 13 micro-lessons offers incredible value! 🧠 A 'one-of-a-kind brain-friendly transformation map 🧠 88 brain-friendly practices to try 🧠 22 downloadable tools and templates to help you bridge the gap from knowing and doing. There is no other course like this and the testimonials are coming in strong! If you are struggling to land change in an evironment of change resistance and change fatigue, if people matter to you, and you need to cut through the overwhelm then this course will make a huge difference to you. 💪 Join us now - people shouldn't have to think hard to get change! https://buff.ly/3WCBKWS

🎉 Our latest course Brain-Friendly Change is live. I have ‘all the feels!!’ Seriously, I am SO proud of being part of a team that has produced a totally unique course that is SO ON POINT for the work environment. This will make such a difference for change practitioners AND leaders AND the people who are recipients of change. I am thrilled with how the course morphed and iterated based on our 40 Early Bird participants feedback – truly an example of how co-design improves quality. We took our own medicine with respect to Agile product development. I ❤️ that we are closing the Knowing – Gap with our incredible limited offer of a personal review of your own Brain-Friendly Change approach after you complete the course. I am in awe of the value we have created with roadmaps, 88 practices, 22 downloadable resources, and curated reading. This is a course you will keep returning to! And most of all I have such deep admiration for Lena Ross and Michelle Teunis. My role has been product owner / producer and they both have responded with such grace, humour, and enthusiasm to every request to make this the best course it can be! Over to you. Let us know what you think! https://lnkd.in/gPMTuYDN #brainfriendlychange #microlearning

The ability to navigate and support others through change, starts with self-navigation. #BrainsOnChange 🧠

The power of connection and the difference between empathy and sympathy. Topics that are important to all aspects of life, especially the part where we spend a lot of our effort and waking hours (work) —where positive #SocialConnection fuels enjoyment, wellbeing and also performance. This is a beautiful animated story, narrated by none other than Brené Brown. Hope it resonates and sparks insight: https://vimeo.com/81492863 #BrainsOnChange 🧠

Keegan and Lahey (co-founders of Minds at Work, and authors of the famous book and Harvard paper on "Immunity to Change"), have hit the nail on the head with this explanation on change resistance. "Resistance to change isn’t about stubbornness. It's a deeper psychological phenomenon where our own unconscious beliefs and commitments can act like an immune system, protecting us from the 'perceived dangers' of change". Change practitioners, have you assessed your own immunity to change? It’s a great tool to help get to know yourself better and gain a deeper empathy for others. Check out the immunity X-Ray here: https://lnkd.in/gJq5yds4 You can use this for yourself and in an organisational context. SN: the term "resistance" is simply a term for an array of behaviours where people are avoiding change and I use the term for educational purposes (rather than going into x different explanations and terms). I encourage you to use what term resonates with you. #BrainsOnChange 🧠

"In order to design a future of positive change, we must first become experts at changing our minds." - Jacque Fresco, futurist. This resonates on many levels and can apply to both personal and organisational change. To change and grow, we need to be exposed and open to varying perspectives, know how to work with our very natural threat responses to them and sift through what's helpful vs. what's interesting. As well as practice questioning our own predictions, remembering that the brain makes predictions based on past experiences, biases, even ingrained habits. If we don't practice observation, don't expose ourselves (to the discomfort of) varying perspectives, or question our own predictions, our mental models can be impeded. And this takes repetition. #BrainsOnChange 🧠

Just some of the reasons our brain is an energy conservationist, and a prediction organ (and why it's good to consider these organising principles when it comes to change). - the brain is ~2% of bodyweight, yet takes a whopping ~ 20% of metabolic energy - our nervous system and brain loves all things reflexive (automatic) - this is to help keep our body in allostasis (balanced, with flexibility) - also to help us respond to danger (survival), and for more complex thinking and tasks - change is deliberate over reflexive in nature Hence, why it's ideal to also be deliberate about designing for change with how we tick, in mind. #BrainsOnChange 🧠 #HumanCentricChange #AppliedNeuroscience