We’re All In This Together
Social
Innovation
People – Technology – Sustainability – Society
Our world is changing rapidly and profoundly. We must change too.
Individually and collectively, this means using our brains in new ways.
We turn cutting-edge insights from cognitive neuroscience into simple, practical and powerful tools and techniques to help you transform the way you think.
From Neural Change to Social Change
Our biological brains are responsible for everything we think, feel, perceive, say, create, do, imagine, invent or believe. Individually and collectively, our brains are the drivers of either stagnation or innovation at every level.
Our modern understanding demonstrates that far from experiencing our environment “as is “, our embodied brains operate on the basis of internally generated models of the world. The predictions, narratives, inferences and expectations produced by these models are the drivers of our perception and action.
But through understanding the underlying mechanisms at play, we are able to ‘hack into’ their functioning. This enables us to generate the novel connections, solutions and self-directed change that are the heart of personal, professional, organisational, technological and societal innovation and creativity.
And when we look around, it’s clear that humanity needs some new ideas right now!
COGNITIVE FLEXIBIlitY AND INNOVATION
While our brains are astonishingly complex, our tools and techniques are simple. They allow you to change the way you think by activating different brain states and circuits, tapping into and reconfiguring resources that were always there.
No ‘gadgets, apps, substances, super-natural powers or magical thinking’ are required; just a curiosity to explore how your natural, biological, evolutionarily evolved brain works. Spoiler Alert: Your brain is more complex, awe-inspiring and beautiful than you could possibly imagine.
It’s not that one mode of thinking is superior to another. Rather, it is about having the agility to be able to switch between different approaches according to the task at hand.
After all, if you only have a hammer, every problem starts to look like a nail. In a rapidly changing world, wouldn’t you rather have the versatility of a Swiss army knife?
Core Focus Areas
We offer innovation training and coaching for progressive companies, civil society organizations, international bodies and the public sector.
We do not seek to introduce a new innovation process or framework. Rather, we support your existing approaches by exploring and exploiting the brain mechanisms which underpin cognition, discovery and decision making.
While most of our work falls under a few broad categories (see below), our approach is flexible and modular. Thus, our tools and techniques can be adapted to suit nearly any topic or theme from the personal to the professional and from the individual to the collective. Afterall, we use the same brain whatever we are doing.
Innovation and Creativity
Discover tools and techniques to train your brain to naturally seek out new inputs, make novel connections and create fresh insights.
Creativity In Science and Technology
Elevate your professional and technical expertise with enhanced imagination and new levels of creativity.
Social iNNOVATION AND Impact
Unlock tools to enable your brain to envisage a new common future for us all and to maximise your impact in an uncertain world.
Leading change MANAGEMENT
Bring people along: drive change based on how our brains respond to and process change and uncertainty.
Resilience, effectiveness & Motivation
Explore powerful techniques to stay focused, motivated and resourceful even in the face of setbacks, multiple demands and pressure.
Tailor-made Innovation Coaching
For individuals and teams who want to gain new insights, perspectives and breakthroughs around specific issues and challenges.
WHAT OTHERS SAY
The words we most often hear are ‘surprising’ and ‘practical’. Here are just a few pieces of other feedback.
Our world is changing rapidly and profoundly.
We must change too.
Individually and collectively, this means using our brains in new ways.
We turn cutting-edge insights from cognitive neuroscience into simple, practical and powerful tools and techniques to help you transform the way you think.
our common future
Our biological brains are responsible for everything we think, feel, perceive, say, create, do, imagine, invent or believe. Individually and collectively, our brains are the ultimate drivers of either stagnation or innovation at every level.
But our brains are locked away inside a black box (our skulls), reliant upon sensory data (sight, smell, etc.) to gather information about the world around us. From this, they generate models about the world – narratives, expectations, predictions about how the world works, our place within it and the consequences of our actions to shape and engage with our external environment. These models not only represent our conscious understanding of the world; they fundamentally drive our decisions and actions at all levels.
This astonishingly complex process occurs automatically, unnoticed, unchallenged and unhindered most of the time. But through understanding the underlying mechanisms at play, we are able to ‘hack into’ their functioning. This provides us with the opportunity to generate the novel connections, solutions and self-directed change that are the heart of personal, professional, organisational, technological and societal innovation and creativity.
And when we look around, it’s clear that humanity needs some new ideas right now!
Tools and techniques
The words we most often hear are ‘surprising’ and ‘practical’. Here are just a few other pieces of feedback.
Tools and techniques
While our brains are astonishingly complex, our tools and techniques are simple. They allow you to change the way you think by activating different neural circuitry and modes, tapping into and reconfiguring resources that were always there.
No ‘gadgets, substances, super-natural powers or magical thinking’ are required; just a curiosity to explore how your natural, biological brain works.
It’s not that one mode of thinking is superior to another. Rather, it is about having the agility to be able to switch between different approaches according to the task at hand.
After all, if you only have a hammer, every problem starts to look like a nail. In a rapidly changing world, wouldn’t you rather have the versatility of a Swiss army knife?
Core Focus Areas
We offer custom, in-house training, courses, coaching, and consulting for progressive companies, civil society organizations, international bodies and the public sector.
We do not seek to introduce a new innovation process or framework. Rather, we support your existing approaches by exploring and exploiting the brain mechanisms which underpin our cognition, discovery and decision making.
While most of our work falls under a few broad categories (see below), our approach is flexible and modular. Thus, our tools and techniques can be adapted to suit nearly any topic or theme.
Innovation and Creativity
Discover tools and techniques to train your brain to naturally seek out new inputs, make novel connections and create fresh insights.
Creativity In Science and Technology
Elevate your professional and technical expertise with enhanced imagination and new levels of creativity.
Social iNNOVATION AND Impact
Unlock tools to enable your brain to envisage a new common future for us all and to maximise your impact in an uncertain world.
Leading change Management
Bring people with you: drive change based on how our brains respond to and process change and uncertainty.
Resilience, effectiveness & Motivation
Explore powerful techniques to stay focused, motivated and resourceful even in the face of setbacks, multiple demands and pressure.
Innovation Coaching
For individuals or teams who want breakthroughs on specific issues, tailor-made innovation coaching can create new insights.
25 Books About the brain
For those who are interested, here are links to just a few books that influence the basis of our thinking about the brain.
All of these are easily accessible and generally non-technical/ academic.
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