Stress appears to be one of the greatest threats to society. What can neuroscience tell you about what happens in your brain when you're stressed? How does your brain work and how can you make stress work for you?
If you learn to recognise stress for what it is, you can turn it to your advantage. This interactive session is completely based on (neuro) scientific insights and provides practical strategies to manage stress in daily life and to optimise your brain condition, so that you can learn how to ultimately improve your performance.
During the expert session with Daphne Feller, audiences are engaged through methods like a Q&A session, live demonstrations of stress management techniques such as power posing and box breathing, and interactive exercises using the Mentimeter app for participants to share their stress symptoms and triggers. These activities help attendees grasp the practical applications of brain optimization and stress management, inspire them to apply these techniques in their personal and professional lives, and address their concerns about managing stress and improving focus.
Gain insights into how the brain functions to improve focus and productivity, applying this knowledge to achieve a better balance between personal and professional commitments, reducing stress, and increasing overall well-being.
Understand the role of the brainstem, limbic system, and prefrontal cortex in managing stress and emotions. Learn practical techniques like meditation, power posing, and box breathing to optimize thinking abilities, manage impulses, and boost mental resilience.
Cultivate trust and vulnerability within your organization by identifying a "Dream Team" of trusted colleagues and giving genuine compliments to create positive experiences for yourself and others.
In this expert session, Daphne Feller delves into the intricacies of the human brain and shares valuable insights on improving focus, relaxation, and stress management. The session begins with Daphne acknowledging the importance of balancing personal and professional commitments to achieve greater success and overall well-being.
She then explains that understanding the brain's systems – the brainstem, limbic system, and prefrontal cortex – is essential for anyone aiming to enhance their performance.
The brainstem regulates automatic functions, while the limbic system handles emotions and desires. The prefrontal cortex, the newest part of the brain, manages long-term planning, cognition, and decision-making.
By gaining knowledge of these systems and their interactions, individuals can effectively influence their brains to perform optimally.
Daphne emphasizes the significance of consciousness in our lives, as only a small percentage of thoughts, feelings, and actions are conscious. To harness the power of unconscious processes, she suggests becoming more aware of thought patterns and emotions to positively influence them. This increased awareness leads to better focus, productivity, and overall well-being.
Daphne further discusses stress and its impact on cognitive abilities, specifically focusing on the prefrontal cortex. Chronic stress presents various symptoms like difficulty sleeping, forgetfulness, emotional reactivity, and physical pain.
To manage these issues, she suggests identifying stress triggers and taking steps to minimize them, such as writing down thoughts before bed to regulate cortisol levels.
The expert session also touches upon the pitfalls of multitasking and time-wasting, emphasizing the importance of being aware of how we spend our time and making intentional choices. Daphne introduces various techniques like meditation for entering the Delta wave state, power posing inspired by Amy Cuddy, box breathing from the Navy Seals, and building a "Dream Team" of trusted colleagues.
The session concludes with an emphasis on positivity in the workplace and creating positive experiences for ourselves and others. Daphne encourages participants to identify their priorities, emphasizing the significance of self-improvement and the importance of trust and vulnerability in building relationships within an organization.
Throughout the interactive expert session, Daphne answers questions from attendees, sharing tips on managing bad days and maintaining mental resilience. Resources like Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking, Fast and Slow" book are recommended for further exploration of brain optimization techniques.
From the survey every participant gets when the session ends, in their own words.
Thanks for this amazing session, please let's organize more!
A know most of the tips but I feel this was a well structured presentation to tackle the topic and a good reminder anyway :-)
Very interesting topic and with concrete tips and tricks to improve your brain function. I enjoyed it very much. Thank you!
Your brain works on its own and not just based on what you feel or experience. Loved the 'Do I control my brain or does my brain control me?', so confronting. Interesting to become aware of the duality of the Limbisch system and the Cortex.
Very dense webinar, it opens to some topics to develop: Binaural beats, power posing ( I like it!) and dream team...lot of possibilities and always one matching to our personality. Thank you so much
A lot as individual, partner in life, social life and work's environment. thank you so much for this learning session and so for the fabulous speaker !.
Thank you for sharing your expertise, Daphne - I will start implementing this tomorrow morning!
Need to stay off phone in the morning AND box breathing technique, thank you for this!
It is interactive, and the block above says exactly how for this session. Nobody has to speak up who does not want to: the chat and the polls carry most of it, and the questions can come in anonymously.
Stress appears to be one of the greatest threats to society. What can neuroscience tell you about what happens in your brain when you're stressed? It is built for a general working audience: no prior knowledge is assumed, and people who already know the subject get the research and the practical side rather than an introduction.
Daphne Feller is one of the experts we auditioned ourselves, and we produce every session so we see how each one lands. Participants rate this session 4.2 out of 5, across 517 responses, and rate Daphne personally 4.5 out of 5.
It runs 45 min / 15 min: the talk, then live questions. All you do is pick a date. We brief Daphne, produce the session, host and moderate it, run the Q&A, and send you the report within an hour of the end.
A team, a department, an employee network or every single employee at once, with no cap and no per-seat price. It runs inside your own Microsoft Teams, Zoom or Google Meet, or on a branded page we build. No integration, no login, no company device or e-mail.
The session is delivered in English, Dutch. You can add high accuracy live subtitles in 8, 16 or 24 languages, so everyone follows in their own. That is a paid option, priced by the number of languages you need.
No, and that is by design. There is nothing to install, nothing to integrate and no connection to your systems, so there is nothing for IT to validate: we join your own Teams, Zoom or Meet as a guest speaker, or we host a page and your people open a link. No software, no accounts, and no data of yours that we can reach. It is why hundreds of companies, among them some of the largest technology and financial firms in the world, were able to start within a day.
We never receive or hold personal data about your employees. Because the session runs in your own environment, attendance and identity stay with you, and what we report back is aggregated: numbers, ratings and survey answers, not people. That is also why IT approval usually takes minutes rather than weeks.
You keep the recording and can share it internally. You also get attendance over time, participant ratings for the content and the speaker, the survey answers, and the topics your people asked for next.
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