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Intuition: Leading Edge for You and Your Clients

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August 1, 2011

Rossella DericksonRossella@Corporate-Wisdom.com

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Bio: Rossella Derickson, ICF Trained Coach

Rossella Derickson, a biochemist, has 22 years experience leading sales, marketing, and project management teams with P&L responsibility. She is a founder and a principal in the company www.Corporate-Wisdom.com. Over the past 5 years, organizations with which

she has worked include Cisco, Stanford University, Phoenix Technology, PARC, eGain, Formfactor, Morrison and Foester, Santa Clara County Executive Office, Applied BioSystems, Amgen, Kodak, and Hitachi.

Rossella brings a centered style to help clients open up to deal with challenges. She brings clarity and problem solving approaches through tools learned through formal training and practical experience. Rossella has translated her experience into Wisdom in the Workplace training modules to support leadership and emotional intelligence development. She utilizes Kotter and Nadler change models, depending upon the organization’s need for vision or business alignment. She facilitates learning through webinar, video conferencing, telepresence and in person sessions. Rossella has launched customized off-sites and training for multinational companies in the U.S., Europe, and Asia.

For 8 years, Rossella held the position of Director of the South Bay Organizational Development Network, SBODN.com – a forum for live and virtual events bringing thought leaders in OD, training, and coaching.

Rossella holds a B.S. in Biochemistry from Rutgers University and is an ICF trained executive coach. She is a gifted intuitive, having studied at Esalen and Aikido with Robert Nadeau, a student of Aikido founder Morihei Ueshiba. Rossella is an author of "Awakening Social Responsibility, A Call to Action."

When Do Leaders Need Intuition?

Ron Schultz, in Unconventional Wisdom, interviewed what he termed “twelve remarkable innovators.” In their own words, they explained how intuition can revolutionize decision-making.

When is intuition most helpful to leaders?

when there is insufficient data, or not enough time to gather the data

when there is too much information, or the data is conflicting

when data seems to support several options equally

Intuition Defined - Comprehension without the use of reasoning. It sometimes comes in the form of symbols.

Intuition is a “physical state.” Laura Day, author of Practical Intuition, states that the normal, waking cognitive “filters” are down. Then we use our rational mind to interpret the impression.

Check-in: How intuitive are you (on a good day or under pressure)?

Western - Eastern Convergence

Neural pathways

Brain Waves

Neurotransmitters

Electromagnetic field

Energy/ Life Force

Consciousness

How Does Intuition Manifest?

Mind perception - Ability to put all the information together without all the “facts,” quantum leap

Audio perception - Hearing the meta-messages when someone is speaking

Gut feeling - feeling in the body

Exercise: Ancient Chinese divination tool: • Think of a dilemma. • Toss the coin. • What is your body/gut response?

Insight

The aha moment–when an answer pops into our head seemingly out of the blue. happens in a small fold of tissue on the surface of the right hemisphere  called the anterior superior temporal gyrus.

It is taxing to the brain so occurs when the brain is relaxed through daydreaming, showering, gym

http://groups.psych.northwestern.edu/mbeeman/documents/CurrentDirxns_Kounios-Beeman_2009.pdf

Gamma Insight Effect

Alpha Insight Effect

Engaging Your IntuitionIntuition is goal directed. It’s activated by a question asked consciously or unconsciously.

Unconscious question: (For example) Why does It always seem like it is my fault when I argue with my boss?

Intuitive information sometimes comes in the form of symbols.

Exercise:

Your eye will be drawn to see what you need tosee; to know what you need to know….

Am I on the right track with my career? My intuition guides me …

Developing Core Beliefs

Unstructured

Structured

How do we lose our natural open and intuitive state?

The Hijacking Brain

Threat vs. Reward- Much of our motivation driving social behavior is governed by an overarching organizing principle - to minimize threat and maximize reward.

Neuroscience ResearchDavid Rock, www.neuroleadership.org

Hijacking ThoughtsHow many of your 168 hours were lost this week?

Hrs / week

Being better than _______

Being not as good as_______

Being pessimistic _______

Judging yourself _______

Pleasing friends _______

Pleasing people at work _______

Pleasing your family _______

Regretting old failures _______

Replaying old hurts _______

Replaying conversations _______

Hrs / week

Telling untruths ______

Thinking about revenge ______

Thinking of enemies ______

Thinking of lost opportunities ______

Thinking of resentments ______

Trying to control others ______

Thinking about how unfair

things are ______

Worrying about what

might happen ______

Exercise: What thoughts hijack you and your intuition?

Shifting Hijacking Thoughts

Examples of Negative Beliefs:I always do it wrong.No one listens to me.I don't belong.

Label and Reappraise

Stress(Boss communicates harshly) Hijacking Thought

Negative BeliefBrain/PFC Spin

Learned Defense Reaction(Speak up, Don’t speak up, etc)

Coaching:I can do it right. I listen to myself.I belong.

Get Out of Your StoryLabel and Re-Appraise

LabelingNaming the feelings that have occurred and looking at them from a distance often allows the brain to relax and to feel a sense of control and therefore calm.

Re-AppraisalLooking at a difficult or threatening situation and redefining it's meaning allows the threat to reduce and new neurotransmitters to connect to future states that are more positive.

Discuss

What thoughts "spin" in your mind and distract you?

Label the feeling associated with the thought. See it from a distance.

Or - reappraise and find a new interpretation of the high level disturbance .

Neuroscience ResearchDavid Rock, www.neuroleadership.org

Being Curious

Calm

Open

The Mind Setto Engage Intuition

Mastering Your Mind

Richard J. Davidson

Vilas Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry Ph.D. 1976, Harvard UniversityUniversity of Wisconsin, Director, Laboratory for Affective NeuroscienceDirector, Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging & Behavior

A Buddhist monk is fitted with electrodes in Richard Davidson’s neuroscience lab. His best-known work focuses on neuroplasticity, the capacity of the brain to develop and change throughout life, something Western science once thought impossible.

Emotions – A Wave?

Barrett L F et al. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 2007;2:73-83

Lisa Feldman Barrett

Emotions- Awareness of Others

We can’t really know what’s going on until we stop running and connect first with ourselves and then with others.

Ordinary empathy is sympathizing with a friend.

Intuitive empathy is the capacity to energetically merge with others and see life (positively and negatively) through their eyes, and sense the world through their feelings.

It becomes difficult to distinguish these sensations from your own, sometimes throwing you off center.

Dr. J.Orloff, M.D. Second Sight

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Heart and MindCalming Both "Brains"

The mind “seems to be a non-stop talking machine with a constant barrage of endless thoughts, ideas, concepts, meanings, memories, plans, apprehensions, doubts, and repetitions.” David Hawkins, author of Power vs. Force, states most of us want anything rather than silence.

The heart generates an electric field 40-60X stronger than brain. It can be measured 8 feet away from body.

Reflective Practice: Breathe deeply in a rhythmic fashion. Imagine you can breathe into your heart. Recall a positive experience that brings forth a positive emotion.

Studies by HeartMath

Using Intuition to Decide on a Course of Action

Think of a situation you are grappling with. Define the situation clearly.

Think of 2 possible solutions. Take a deep breath. Close your eyes. RELAX.

Imagine a jacket, and associate the jacket with one of the possible solutions to the situation you are grappling with. How does the jacket fit? How does it feel?

Put on the second jacket. How does this one fit? Feel?

What is your intuition telling you?

Are You in the Flow?

Boredom

Flow

Anxiety/Fear

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SkillsLow

High

High

Follow the Flow

Quote by Oprah Winfrey: Find the flow and follow it. You can’t go

wrong. Even if you’re in a situation where you are uncomfortable or

out of place, don’t try to swim against the current. Change direction.

Find the flow and follow it.

Being at the right place at the right time. Knowing what is next.

Being awake to possibilities without distraction.

Having a clear question and trusting the “effortless flow.”

Flow

Alignment – Google “The Energy Project”

Purpose is not something you do intellectually… It comes from the core of who you are and drives your success

Intention: If I followed my deepest intuition I would…

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