Category Archives: Blue Zone
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, [...]
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