In this 4-part Be Well Lead Well® Connect audio series, you’ll learn four principles of the autonomic nervous system and why they matter when you want to cultivate environments where your people and teams thrive.
Part two of this series addresses interoception, the practice of sensing the signals from the nervous system and tap into the body’s intelligence. This can be transformational. Using interoception, you can become more aware if your heart is beating fast, your breathing is shallow, or your stomach is gurgling, bringing inputs from your autonomic nervous system forward as useful information for your life and work.
Click the play button below to discover how interoception can help you better understand and connect with yourself and others, gain deeper insight into situations, and improve decision-making for you and your team.
Show Notes
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Articles & Books
- Sensational: A New Story of Our Senses by Ashley Ward
- The Body Keeps the Score by Bessell van der Kolk
- My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Manekem
- Interoception: A Gateway to the Neuroscience of Self-Awareness by Neuroscience News
- What is Interoception and Why Is It Important? by Frontiers for Young Minds
- Interoception: How We Understand Our Body’s Inner Sensations by the Association for Psychological Science
- Gut Signals and Gut Feelings: Science at the Interface of Data and Beliefs. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
- The Science of Embodiment: Connect to Your Body’s Wisdom by Willa Blythe Baker, Mindful Magazine
- Breathing as Fuel: Tapping into Breath for Leader Wellbeing & Development by Renee Moorefield
- Sing the Body Electric by Gabriel Kram
Podcasts & Videos
- Become an Active Operator of Your Nervous System with clinician Deb Dana on Ten Percent Happier by Dan Harris
- Body Wisdom as a Framework for Decision Making by Jason Buchel, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Tools & Workshops
- Autonomic Spectrum Workshop by Hearth Sciences
- Body Scan Practice by Renee Moorefield (click the play button below)
Be Well Lead Well® Resources
- Be Well Lead Well Pulse®, a groundbreaking assessment that connects leaders and groups to 19 pathways for their increasing thriving, resilience, and wellbeing leadership
- Be Well Lead Well Pulse® Certification Program, a whole-person approach to leadership
- Be Well Lead Well® Newletter, unpacking science, practices, and case studies to help today’s leaders transform teams and organizations by making thriving a new standard of success