BRAIN WORKSHOP
Navigate Challenges Through Your Unique Brain Patterns
Just like a fitness trainer helps you work around a weaker knee, this workshop helps you find ways to handle tasks by relying on what your brain does best and easing the load on areas that tire quickly.
We’ll analyze brain activity and create a map of your personal brain, highlighting its limits and strengths. We’ll identify compensatory mechanisms and recovery techniques to support areas that may hold you back. Finally, we’ll discuss how to adjust your decision-making process based on insights from your brain map.
We’ll analyze brain activity and create a map of your personal brain, highlighting its limits and strengths. We’ll identify compensatory mechanisms and recovery techniques to support areas that may hold you back. Finally, we’ll discuss how to adjust your decision-making process based on insights from your brain map.
How It Will Go
1
Brain Areas
The host will tell shortly what main areas every brain has and what are their functions.
2
Quiz: Brain Strength and Weaknesses
We'll do a quiz with questions about situations in your life, that will show strength level of each of brain areas.
Questions will be like:
— Can you draw a map of this room or building from memory?
— Touch your right ear with your left hand while keeping your eyes closed.
— Can you follow a multi-step verbal instruction without repeating it back?
— Can you name three things you did last weekend?
— Can you identify the pattern in this sequence?
Questions will be like:
— Can you draw a map of this room or building from memory?
— Touch your right ear with your left hand while keeping your eyes closed.
— Can you follow a multi-step verbal instruction without repeating it back?
— Can you name three things you did last weekend?
— Can you identify the pattern in this sequence?
3
Your Personal Brain Map
We'll create a "brain wheel" and highlight visually the level of possible activity of brain areas, that will give us an understanding of our brain as a whole.
4
Brain Strategies
We'll discuss what changes we can make in the life to save brain resources and rely more on the brain strength, avoiding overload weaker areas.
Imagine a person with strong visual and spatial processing abilities, combined with excellent executive functions. Simply put, this person can notice intricate details in visual information, mentally construct "maps" of terrain or objects, and has strong focus and determination. However, they struggle significantly with language-related tasks and motor coordination.
Professions that heavily rely on public speaking or writing, like journalism or hosting TV shows, might not suit them. Similarly, careers demanding precise physical coordination, such as figure skating, are likely unsuitable.
On the other hand, they could excel in roles like architecture or air traffic control, where visual-spatial skills, planning, and decision-making are critical.
Professions that heavily rely on public speaking or writing, like journalism or hosting TV shows, might not suit them. Similarly, careers demanding precise physical coordination, such as figure skating, are likely unsuitable.
On the other hand, they could excel in roles like architecture or air traffic control, where visual-spatial skills, planning, and decision-making are critical.
But what if this person is already in a profession that requires a lot of speaking?
In such a case, compensatory mechanisms can help reduce the cognitive load on the brain. For instance, this person might:
— Take small breaks regularly, perhaps by having a second person take over for a few minutes when possible.
— Use templated phrases or scripts to streamline speaking tasks and minimize mental effort.
— Delegate some speaking responsibilities, if possible.
— Gradually train this brain area by increasing speaking tasks over time, starting small and progressively adding more. Regular practice can help build endurance and efficiency.
Another example: if the person has problems with attention—sometimes unable to start any task and getting easily distracted, but other times entering hyperfocus, becoming so absorbed in one task that they forget to eat or take care of themselves—knowing this aspect of their brain can lead to effective strategies:
— Take small sensory breaks during hyperfocus episodes. Activities like using cold water, applying pressure, experiencing controlled physical sensations, or engaging with distinct smells or sounds can activate other brain areas responsible for physical sensations, which may help reduce overactivation of the attention area.
— Create a structured environment with visual or auditory cues to help initiate tasks when motivation is low.
— Develop a routine of alternating between highly engaging tasks and less stimulating ones to balance brain activity and prevent burnout.
In such a case, compensatory mechanisms can help reduce the cognitive load on the brain. For instance, this person might:
— Take small breaks regularly, perhaps by having a second person take over for a few minutes when possible.
— Use templated phrases or scripts to streamline speaking tasks and minimize mental effort.
— Delegate some speaking responsibilities, if possible.
— Gradually train this brain area by increasing speaking tasks over time, starting small and progressively adding more. Regular practice can help build endurance and efficiency.
Another example: if the person has problems with attention—sometimes unable to start any task and getting easily distracted, but other times entering hyperfocus, becoming so absorbed in one task that they forget to eat or take care of themselves—knowing this aspect of their brain can lead to effective strategies:
— Take small sensory breaks during hyperfocus episodes. Activities like using cold water, applying pressure, experiencing controlled physical sensations, or engaging with distinct smells or sounds can activate other brain areas responsible for physical sensations, which may help reduce overactivation of the attention area.
— Create a structured environment with visual or auditory cues to help initiate tasks when motivation is low.
— Develop a routine of alternating between highly engaging tasks and less stimulating ones to balance brain activity and prevent burnout.
WORKSHOP DETAILS:
— Small group, maximum 8 people.
— Casual setting, a lot of practical aspects and activities. It's not a lecture.
— Personal recommendations.
— Everything explained very simply, like for kids.
— No prior knowledge required! You don't need to know brain areas or understand how the brain works.
— English language.
— Small group, maximum 8 people.
— Casual setting, a lot of practical aspects and activities. It's not a lecture.
— Personal recommendations.
— Everything explained very simply, like for kids.
— No prior knowledge required! You don't need to know brain areas or understand how the brain works.
— English language.
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