The Neuroscience of Asking More and Saying Less
Brain research illustrates that focusing on problems or challenging behavior reinforces those problems and behaviors. Due to the way the human brain is wired, telling people what to do, advice giving, or relying on incentives and threats to change human behavior often results in a shutting down of the brain’s learning centers required for growth and the development of new habits and skills.
This workshop concentrates on utilizing a coaching approach that helps keep the focus on present and future possibilities and solutions. During this interactive learning experience, practitioners discover how to help people develop new neural pathways in in the brain that result in new thinking patterns. They will learn the power of asking more and saying less when facilitating courageous change conversations with clients.Research shows that developing the ‘coaching habit’ can be a game changer for practitioners who want to help people update outdated thinking patterns, attitudes, and behaviors that may be hindering the achievement of health and wellness goals.
Learning Objectives
- Describe the science of how and why coaching works
- Develop the ability to read mental states and recognize when people are having insight into their own behavior
- Utilize coaching habit skills for helping people shift out of being ‘stuck’
- Cultivate skills for facilitating high impact conversations that upgrade thinking patterns, attitudes, and behaviors in health and human service systems of care