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Interview about The Success Zone on ABC Gippsland
- Posted on 12th July 2010
- in Book
- by Andrew Mowat
Interview about The Success Zone and its application on ABC Gippsland: extract of an interview with presenter Celine Foenander.
Continue reading...Attention Priority: your brain is like a lava lamp
- Posted on 8th July 2009
- in Uncategorized
- by Andrew Mowat
Given the limits to our attention and the high competition for that attention by many things in our day to day life, the brain has a process whereby it cycles through high demand priorities. We call this attention priority, a mind process where the most pressing attentional needs rise to [...]
Continue reading...Tweeting in the Blue Zone …
Imagine we are meeting for the first time. We shake hands, leaning in slightly towards each other and smiling as we do so. We scan our faces for social connection, see all the right signals, and feel good about the connection. Then, as you withdraw your hand, you see my [...]
Continue reading...The Three Types of Change
- Posted on 12th May 2009
- in Uncategorized
- by Andrew Mowat
I was musing yesterday on the changes I have made, and how long they last. This stemmed from passing yet another ‘hidden’ camera, and thinking that the fear or anxiety of not knowing where these cameras are have exerted a coercive and external change on me. Not knowing where these [...]
Continue reading...Emotional Contagion – Are Your Emotions Worth Catching?
- Posted on 22nd April 2009
- in Blue Zone, emotions, red zone
- by Andrew Mowat
Intuitively we all know that emotions are contagious. How else do evocative stories have impact on us? Neuroscience seems to have uncovered the biomechanism for the catching of another’s emotions: mirror neurons. These neurons allow us to understand the emotional state of others and to adopt to some degree those [...]
Continue reading...The Question Is…
- Posted on 6th April 2009
- in Blue Zone, coaching, conflict, questioning, questions
- by Andrew Mowat
Last post I discussed the Red and Blue Zones, and linked each to ineffective and effective communicators respectively. Reactive Red Zone people use their limbic systems to manage communication and conflict, while those who can deal with conflict and communication with equanimity and care use far more of their prefrontal [...]
Continue reading...So how are your Red Zones…?
- Posted on 3rd April 2009
- in Blue Zone, brain, change, emotions, leadership
- by Andrew Mowat
Using our concept of Blue and Red Zones, take a moment to consider your default state. If the Red Zone is based on the limbic/reptilian part of your brain (reactive, threat aware, rapid, self-aligned) and the Blue Zone ‘points’ to your prefrontal cortex (compassionate, creative, collaborative, reflective, goal oriented, slow, [...]
Continue reading...Introduction to the Blue and Red Zones
- Posted on 2nd April 2009
- in Uncategorized
- by Andrew Mowat
Group 8 Education has developed a framework for understanding particular aspects of behaviour and the brain. Based on two ‘zones’, the Blue Zone and the Red Zone, this framework builds self awareness and self management, the two cornerstones of emotional intelligence according to Daniel Goleman. Hear more in this short [...]
Continue reading...Back to the Blog…
- Posted on 2nd April 2009
- in Thought Leaders
- by Andrew Mowat
It’s been some time since I’ve managed to add something here, though this has been in part to do with some massive reorganising in my brain around the whole web 2.0 phenomenon. Seeing a real use for blogging, having clarity on the content and knowing how it integrates into the [...]
Continue reading...Unified experience, many brain sub-systems…
- Posted on 1st July 2007
- in Uncategorized
- by Andrew Mowat
The way that we experience the world, internal and external, provides a somewhat false sense that a singular mind is responsible. Significantly, we remain largely unaware of the operation and impact of any of the many ‘sub-systems’ in the brain responsible for our ‘singular experiene’ of the world. Some of [...]
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