Calm Clarity Foundation Workshop Fall 2024 - 4 Sessions

The mission of Calm Clarity is to use neuroscience to develop the leadership capacity of human beings to co-create a world where every person thrives.  We have supported thousands of people from diverse ages and backgrounds to rewire their brain to experience greater wisdom, fulfillment, and joy since our first programs in 2013 for inner-city high school students. Learn more about us and our non-profit work here.

We invite you to experience the Calm Clarity Foundation Program as a four-part workshop series:

• Session 1: Wednesday October 9 from 7pm to 9pm ET
• Session 2: Wednesday October 16 from 7pm to 9pm ET
• Session 3: Wednesday October 23 from 7pm to 9pm ET
• Session 4: Wednesday October 30 from 7pm to 9pm ET

PROGRAM SUMMARY

This Calm Clarity Lead in Alignment and Wholeness Foundation Program provides you with a "user manual for steering brain development that enables people to experience alignment, wholeness, and self-actualization.  The program guides you to activate and strengthen the neural systems for attention, resilience, meta-awareness, and connection---critical neural systems that enable people to collaborate together to form high-performing teams that achieve impactful outcomes while enhancing well-being, innovation, creativity, and flow. 

As these 4 neural systems get stronger, they enable you to feel more and more aligned and whole, and deepen your capacity to experience wisdom, fulfillment, joy, and many other qualities that enable you to rise to challenges, build meaningful relationships, and positively impact your communities.

Alignment and wholeness means living in a state of physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being and integration in which you feel centered and grounded, embody your values, access your inner wisdom and compassion, and harness your talents, skills, and energies to be co-create healthy and vibrant relationships, teams, projects, organizations, and communities.

In contrast, when we as human beings don’t feel aligned and whole, the feeling of “not being enough” can prompt us to mindlessly speak, think, and act from a place of insufficiency, insecurity, unworthiness, and scarcity. We can get stuck in negative patterns and inadvertently spread these limiting patterns to the people around us at work and at home.

DETAILED PROGRAM OVERVIEW

This interactive, experiential leadership program combines neuroscience, mindfulness, and leadership development to strengthen the 4 neural systems that enable you to align and integrate your mind, body, heart, and spirit.  This is a critical leadership capacity because being aligned and whole enhances your capacity to be open, attuned, responsive, resourceful, resilient, curious, insightful, creative, innovative, collaborative, inclusive, and inspiring.

--SESSION 1: October 9--

 

Your Brain Patterns

We begin with a series of exercises to build your awareness of your autopilot and how you move between three patterns of brain activation:

• Brain 1.0: Your threat system is on high-alert. You feel fearful, unsafe, powerless, and isolated. Over time, you lose hope and fall into despair.
• Brain 2.0: Your dopamine system suppresses Brain 1.0 by chasing immediate gratification, money, status, or a false sense of comfort and control.
• Brain 3.0: Your prefrontal cortex is able to calm and integrate Brain 1.0 and Brain 2.0 so you can experience alignment and wholeness, bring the best version of you to the world, embody your core values and aspirations, and create positive impact. The stronger your Brain 3.0, the more you experience and share wisdom, fulfillment, and joy. 

These exercises enable you to recognize the situations that activate these patterns in your everyday life and discern how you show up and interact differently when you are in Brain 1.0, Brain 2.0, and Brain 3.0.  

4 Key Neural Systems of Brain 3.0

You will be guided to build Brain 3.0 by activating and strengthening four key neural systems that enable you to live and lead in alignment and wholeness. You will start this journey by assessing how strongly developed your four neural systems are at this moment in your life.  

--SESSION 2: October 16--

Your Attention System

• You will become acquainted with your Attention System, which contains the networks for attention, focus, and concentration.
• You will experience how your Attention System gives you the ability to notice when your default mode network (DMN, often referred to as the"Inner Narrator") activates and diverts your attention and to redirect your attention to the task you intended to focus on.
• You will be guided through a meditation exercise designed to strengthen your Attention System.

Your Resilience System and Triggers

• You will become acquainted with your Resilience System, which contains the networks for stress regulation and recovery. 
• You will stregnthen your resilience system by developing interoceptive awareness to recognize when you are outside your "Brain 3.0 window," and taking steps to restore your capacity for Brain 3.0. 
• You will be guided through a meditation exercise designed to build interoceptive awareness by noticing the signals from your body and mind that tell you that your Brain 1.0, Brain 2.0, and Brain 3.0 are activated.
• You will become aware of triggers in your everyday life that activate your Brain 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0 and develop strategies to manage your triggers.

--SESSION 3: October 23--

Your Meta-Awareness System

• You will become acquainted with your Meta-Awareness System, which contains the networks for being aware of your "sense of self," and your stories, patterns, feelings, thoughts, and behaviors.
• You will use your meta-awareness sytem to observe how your brain creates associations when neurons fire and wire together, and how thoughts popping up are tied to neural pathways being triggered through associative activation.
• You will be guided through a meditation designed to strengthen your Meta-Awareness system and a worksheet exercise to discern patterns for what your Brain 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0 "say" in various situations.

Your Connection System

• You will become acquainted with your Connection System, which contains the networks for compassion and empathy, and is intertwined with the networks for joy, meaning, and inspiration.
• You will be through a compassion meditation exercise designed to strengthen your Connection / "tend-and-befriend" system and boost your body's capacity to buffer stress and rise to challenges.
• You will also do a worksheet exercise to activate your tend-and-befriend system to integrate the many parts within you. 

--SESSION 4: October 30--

Part III. Application and Integration

In this final section of the program, you will be guided to more consciously use these 4 systems in your everyday life.

• You will begin to use a self-assessment tool to create a baseline pie chart for how much energy you are generating and transmitting in Brain 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0.   
• Then you will draw your ideal pie chart for optimizing your effectiveness and sustainability, and reflect on what will help you move towards your ideal pie chart. 
• You will create a daily routine to activate and strengthen Brain 3.0 to move towards this ideal pie chart.
• You can then use the self-assessment tool to track your progress by updating your pie-chart on a monthly basis for 6 months. 

Bonus: Membership in the Calm Clarity Alumni Community

Upon completion of this program, you will be welcomed into our Virtual Alumni Community via Mighty Networks. This will give you exclusive access to an Alumni Toolkit and Virtual Alumni Events to deepen your ability to integrate Brain 3.0 into your life. You can also take advantage of the Alumni Refresher Program to retake any virtual Foundation Workshop for $50. Each time you re-experience the program, you further the firing and wiring of Brain 3.0 to create new neural pathways that deepen your insights. 

Recording and Hand-outs

This workshop will be recorded so participants can review the video. All participants will receive a PDF of the slide deck and be invited to a private space in the Calm Clarity Mighty Networks Platform where you can access the video.

By joining this workshop, you help us make a difference

Your ticket to this workshop supports Calm Clarity's non-profit programs to serve low-income communities impacted by trauma and violence, such as our Community Healing and Peace Project. This includes scholarship programs for people living in or working to make a difference in these communities or people experiencing financial hardship to join the workshop alongside you.

You can also support our non-profit programs, including our scholarship programs, by making a donation through our online portal here.

Scholarship Opportunities

1. Our Sliding-Scale Partial Scholarship Program covers up to 75% of the cost of a standard admission ticket for anyone experiencing financial hardship, for anyone who works in the public sector or in a non-profit organization, and for anyone in a developing country with a high USD exchange rate. Anyone who matches these criteria can select this ticket option when you register and choose a price as low as $100. Please only register for 1 ticket for yourself.

2. Our Changemaker Scholarship Program is for changemakers such as community leaders and organizers, educators, school resource officers, social workers, counselors, therapists, and mental health advocates who serve people from disadvantaged, underserved communities impacted by gun violence. Anyone who matches these criteria can select this ticket option when you register and choose a price as low as $50. On the registration form, there is a space to briefly share about yourself and your organization, the work you do, and a link to a webpage (such as your LinkedIn profile, a bio, a staff directory) to confirm your eligibility for the scholarship. Please only register for 1 ticket for yourself.

3. Our Equity Scholarship Program is for people from economically marginalized Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) communities who are healing the impact of disparities in wealth, health, and well-being on their families and their communities. Anyone who matches this criteria can select this ticket option when you register and choose a price as low as $10. On the registration form, there is a space to share briefly about your background and how we can support you. Please only register for 1 ticket for yourself.

If you need additional financial assistance to attend this workshop, you can send a request to our team at training@calmclarity.org

Please email questions and comments to training@calmclarity.org