Neuroscience

Why we love the movie Inside Out.

23rd March 2018

change, feeling better, Self Awareness, transformation

Have you seen the film Inside Out? It’s the story of 11-year old Riley and her emotions – Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger and Disgust. When Riley moves with her family from Minnesota to San Francisco, her emotions are thrown into chaos. She struggles settling into her new home away from her friends and her hockey league…

Pay attention to your thoughts, because thoughts become things

6th April 2017

Lou Banks

growth, Learning, self development

In other words, it’s time to get wise to all that chat going on inside our heads, because what we think about can manifest as reality. You’d be amazed how often people talk to me about their fear of presentations. They just hate them because they believe they’re not very good at them. The closer…

Role modelling for real change

30th March 2017

Lou Banks

growth, Learning, self development

When my daughter Martha was little, like most pre-school kids, she was terrible at sharing. The tantrums at play dates were becoming a problem and I knew it was serious when we weren’t getting invited out as much as we used to. I needed my Mum mates. So for my sanity at least, things had…

Making Learning Stick through Attention Density.

6th February 2017

Lou Banks

Attention Density, change, Making it Stick

Do you ever find yourself saying things like ‘I have no confidence when it comes to public speaking,’ or ‘I’m really terrible at Maths,’ or even the dreaded ‘I’m not good enough.’ If you’re running negative internal dialogue, you’ll become your own self-fulfilling prophecy. Telling yourself day after day that you have no confidence, guarantees…