Inspire and Educate Your Audience
Elevate the hearts, minds, and souls of learners, professionals, and students
Share a profound experience that changes the way people see the world and their place in it.
​Due's presentations are often rated by attendees as one of the most compelling and memorable sessions in the many conferences and programs where she has spoken.
A sample of powerful Calm Clarity presentations
The Science of Listening to Deepen Connection & Understanding
Use science to unlock the power of listening to genuinely connect in our digitally distracted era.
​We invite your audience to experience and practice listening as a science-based process for building enriching relationships. You will apply insights from neuroscience to activate four key neural systems (attention, resilience, meta-awareness and connection) that enable you to ground yourself in the present moment and attune to what people express verbally and non-verbally. You will also engage in partner exercises to experience how intentionally activating these neural systems enables you to deeply listen not just with your mind, but also with your heart, body, and spirit.
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Learning Objectives:
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Deconstruct the neurobiology of listening: discover the neural networks that enable you to attune to others, as well as the main causes of poor listening and disconnection.
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Practice activating your neural systems for attention, resilience, meta-awareness, and connection to boost your capacity to more fully hear and honor another human being.
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Become aware of how what people say activates associations in your brain—which can either enhance your understanding by creating neural resonance or divert your attention by triggering your own memories and stories.
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Discern when you don't have the capacity to attentively listen and set realistic expectations.
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The insights and skills you gain from this workshop will support you to navigate difficult interactions, build stronger relationships, and bridge differences by demonstrating to people that you genuinely hear them and see them.
See video of Due giving a 30-minute version of this talk
This presentation was given at the 2024 Mindful Leader Summit in Washington, D.C.
Neural Pathways to Resilience:
How to Activate and Build the Neurobiology of Resilience
In this post-pandemic world, so many professionals feel exhausted and burned out. What does it take to re-charge and regenerate ourselves so that we have the energy to meet the challenges that come up in our day-to-day lives?
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This experiential presentation will deconstruct the neurobiology of resilience by shedding light on how the neural system for resilience overlaps with the neural system for connection. In addition, you will discern how interactions in different patterns of brain activation can either energize or drain the resilience system.
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Experience how resilience corresponds to neural networks that underlie our capacity to attune to ourselves (the interoception system) and our capacity to attune to and connect with others (the connection system).
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Discern how mindless interactions in autopilot contribute to burn-out and how conscious and intentional interactions (in Brain 3.0) contribute to recovery and resilience
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Practice short exercises that activate and boost the key neural pathways for resilience
The Neuroscience of Wisdom:
How Mindfulness Builds the Neural Networks for Emotional Intelligence
Are widespread beliefs that emotions negatively impact reasoning and decision-making true? Is our ability to reason separated from or intertwined with the "emotional brain"? How can insights from neuroscience help us understand and harness the wisdom of our emotions?
The purpose of this session is to provide a deeper understanding of emotional intelligence by synthesizing research on the brain systems that correspond to processing emotions, empathy, and decision-making. Experiential exercises will bring these insights from neuroscience to life to give you a visceral understanding of how emotions are vital to cognition and the development of wisdom. You will also learn and practice mindfulness techniques to enhance and build the neural networks that correspond to emotional intelligence.
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Learning Objectives:
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Improve self-awareness by learning how to connect emotions, urges, and impulses to three primary patterns of brain activation.
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Use mindfulness techniques to center yourself and shift into the pattern of brain activation that enhances wisdom and intuition.
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Learn how to intentionally guide brain activation through interpersonal interactions to strengthen connection, empathy, compassion, and collaboration.
The Neuroscience of Mindfulness:
Experience how mindfulness practices enhance your brain
Do you ever ask yourself "am I doing this right?" when you practice mindfulness?
Gain answers to this question by harnessing insights from contemplative neuroscience to empower you to practice mindfulness with more clarity and efficacy. ​During this workshop you will be guided to practice and experience how a variety of mindfulness techniques can serve as “work outs” for 4 key brain systems that enable you to concentrate, be self-aware, bounce back from setbacks, and build healthy connections.
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Connect mindfulness practices to the strengthening of 4 key brain systems: the attention system, the meta-awareness system, the resilience system, and the connection system.
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Practice 4 different mindfulness techniques to experience the activation of each of these key brain systems.
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Apply this knowledge to meditate more effectively and reap the benefits of a regular mindfulness practice.
Healing Marginalization Using Neuroscience
This experiential, interactive workshop is designed for professionals (such as teachers, administrators, counselors, social workers, school resource officers, youth development staff) and volunteers who serve groups and communities experiencing marginalization and trauma. The training will equip participants to more effectively address maladaptive survival and defense mechanisms that often manifest when people experience various forms of adversity and distress, and to also mitigate secondary traumatic stress and burnout.
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You will engage in exercises that activate and strengthen neural networks that enable you to be more present, centered, and attuned and to harness your wisdom and compassion to foster connection, resilience, openness, self-awareness, learning, growth, and insight.
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Learning Objectives:
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Be able to link the neurobiological effects of marginalization and trauma to two patterns of brain activation: hypervigilance in “Brain 1.0” and impulsiveness in “Brain 2.0.”
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Apply insights from neuroscience to develop key neural networks in “Brain 3.0” that support executive functioning, self-regulation, de-escalation, self-efficacy, resilience, and learning.
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Practice techniques that activate and strengthen Brain 3.0, a higher state of brain functioning in which we have the capacity to change limiting patterns and beliefs, move towards self-actualization, and positively impact our communities.
Testimonials
“Due presented to a standing room only crowd at New York University. Her expertise is of value no matter your field or role. In just one short hour, she was able to move people with her own personal story, convey the complex brain science behind her methods and enable people to experience the power of mindfulness. The practices Due shared can be easily applied in any life—no matter how busy you are—to increase focus, reduce stress, and achieve high performance.”
—Bethany Godsoe, Associate Vice President, Student Leadership Initiatives, New York University
"This was extremely well structured and shows the clear and research-supported individual and societal benefits of living mindfully, especially in a world that frequently brings out reactive and exclusionary us-and-them attitudes and behaviours in us. The model Quach presents is elegant and shows concretely and practically the path to integrating mindfulness and compassion in our everyday challenges and encounters, be they in the workplace or elsewhere. Bravo and thank you!"
—Dr. Meagan Daley, PhD, psychologist and professor, Clinique de Psychologie et d'Insomnie, Quebec, Canada
"Due Quach provides a compelling and thought-provoking approach that enables leaders and their teams to gain a better understanding of what is happening inside the mind. Her engaging manner and personal story grab a hold of you. The big takeaway is a framework that can easily lead to greater understanding and success in personal interactions."
—Bernard Dagenais, President & CEO, The Main Line Chamber of Commerce
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