Bear loses 20 IQ points story
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How to snap out of survival mode. A look at stress management without using the word stress. Discover two easy tools to spot your survival mode and keep it in check. Please see the Notes tab for the Presenter Notes to get some narrative.
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Bear loses 20 IQ points story
- 1. Georg Fasching - Coaching People & Products. @geofas geofas.com Modern Way Consulting Ltd. A story about a bear and the loss of IQ Inspired by opening remarks of John Perry (MSc, 3x MA) at Barefoot Coaching PGCert Course Module 1 in Jan. 2016. 1
- 4. Georg Fasching - Coaching People & Products. @geofas geofas.com Modern Way Consulting Ltd. 4
- 7. Georg Fasching - Coaching People & Products. @geofas geofas.com Modern Way Consulting Ltd. What to do? 7
- 8. Georg Fasching - Coaching People & Products. @geofas geofas.com Modern Way Consulting Ltd. Bear Test. 8
- 9. Georg Fasching - Coaching People & Products. @geofas geofas.com Modern Way Consulting Ltd. Is it a bear? 9
- 10. Georg Fasching - Coaching People & Products. @geofas geofas.com Modern Way Consulting Ltd. No? 10
- 11. Georg Fasching - Coaching People & Products. @geofas geofas.com Modern Way Consulting Ltd. 1. Smile 11
- 12. Georg Fasching - Coaching People & Products. @geofas geofas.com Modern Way Consulting Ltd. 2. Breathe 12
- 13. Georg Fasching - Coaching People & Products. @geofas geofas.com Modern Way Consulting Ltd. 3. Assess with Bear-ometerTM 13 Teddy Grizzly
- 14. Georg Fasching - Coaching People & Products. @geofas geofas.com Modern Way Consulting Ltd. Options 14 Deep breaths out Go for a walk Drink water 10-second pause WASP (Wait, Absorb, Slowly, Proceed) Show him who’s boss? Buy yourself time
- 15. Georg Fasching - Coaching People & Products. @geofas geofas.com Modern Way Consulting Ltd. Send any questions to: georg@geofas.com or @geofas Connect at: http://linkedin.com/in/geofas/ Thanks!! Fancy a read? Blog posts and resources at: http://geofas.com/ 15
Editor's Notes
- [Title Slide]
- [Slide 2] Imagine spending some time in nature. Fresh air. Gentle sounds of a stream soothing your spirits. You’re calm. You feel light.
- [Slide 3] All of a sudden, a Grizzly bear charges at you. What happen in your body? It goes into survival mode to prepare yourself for the life-threatening situation at hand. Blood rushes to your upper torso. Your shoulders tighten. Your heart-rate spikes. Your mind gets singularly focussed on the threat. Everything else disappears. For millions of years evolution has shaped this natural response. Thanks to this our species survived.
- [Slide 4] Let’s shake off this experience and go back to where most of us spend most of our time. Let’s look at an example of what some of us are dealing with.
- [Slide 5] Public speaking or public performance. Dozens, hundreds, or thousands of pairs of eyes are aimed at you. What happens to your body? For those who haven’t been doing this day after day for quite some time, our body has a rather similar reaction. Is this a survival situation? Sarcastically we’d say yes. Really though, we’d have to say no.
- [Slide 6] Our body can’t intuitively tell the difference between these two very different triggers of “sympathetic nervous system activation”, or stress response. Blood flow in our brain changes in favour of evolutionarily older parts of the brain, depriving your parts of the brain of blood flow. This costs us up to 20 IQ points!!! I don’t know about you, but I’d rather have access to those. What’s more, develop tunnel vision, and “tunnel hearing”. We also don’t get to think about those around us as empathy is out the window too. At its strongest the survival mode will go all the way. It is a spectrum though and the reaction is not binary.
- [Slide 7] While in a bear-facing scenario this might be useful, in our day-to-day activities it certainly is not quite so useful. So what can we do about this? I developed a couple of tools for this.
- [Slide 8] Behold, the bear test. This is a very simple test that you can administer whenever you feel your body going into survival mode.
- [Slide 9] Ask yourself: Is it a bear?
- [Slide 10] More often then not the answer will be no. Great. Then what?
- [Slide 11] 1. Smile! You just survived what you body thought was a bear attack. You live to live another day. Smile. Smiling helps your body reset from survival mode.
- [Slide 12] 2. Breathe. Especially long deep breaths out help your body reset from survival mode.
- [Slide 13] 3. Assess the situation using the Bear-ometerTM. On a scale of Teddy to Grizzly, what kind of situation is it?
- [Slide 14] Depending on the situation you have some options. All of them help reset your body out of survival mode. To keep check of your survival mode, you can start and end your tasks at work with a 10-second pause to take a deep breath and a deeper breath out. Drink some water to ensure your body is sufficiently hydrates so blood can easily reach the newer parts of your brain. When someone requests something and you don’t have an automated response, buy yourself time to think by saying “Let me think about that.”. Go for a walk. Fresh air, and gentle walking help relax the body out of survival mode. In strong cases you can apply the WASP (Wait. Absorb. Slowly. Proceed.). The Bear Test is a light-hearted and based on WASP. In the case of facing a real Grizzly, I’m out of my depth and you might better research that.
- [Final Slide]