The webinar covered techniques to increase happiness and well-being. It examined how the brain can impact happiness and discussed positive psychology strategies like meditation, reframing negative events, and counting blessings. The webinar proposed adopting a structured approach using skills, science, and social support to help apply these techniques and maximize well-being.

1. Mind Maximisation
Webinar, December 2012 – Presented by Andrew Stead
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2. Outcomes and Content “Happiness is
Outcomes
the meaning and
• Highlight the brains flaws and the impact on our purpose of life,
Happiness
• Examine how neuroscience can help increase our
the whole aim
Well-being and Resilience
and end of
human
• Adopt techniques designed to help you lead a
happier life
Contents
existence.”
• The Operations of the Brain
Aristotle
• What Can Be Done?
• Positive Psychology
• Putting it into Practice
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3. Introductions
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4. Resilience, Happiness & Well-being
Schematic Mental Health spectrum based
on global results - Huppert et al, 2005
Flourishing: “enthusiasm for
life.... actively and productively
engaged with others and social
institutions”
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Languishing: “a life of quiet despair”

5. Sustenance for Life
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6. What Your Daily Bread is not –
‘The 5 Pauls’
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7. Question 1
a. How did your body feel at the end of the relaxation
exercise before the disturbance?
b. What was the object that disrupted that feeling?
c. Which sense organ detected the object?
d. How did your brain perceive the object?
e. How did your body react to this perception?
f. How did your brain reinterpret the information and how
did your body react again?
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8. The Operations of the Mind
Explosive Sound
Object
Fear Signals
Aural
Ø AVOID
Reac3on
Sense
Door
Sense
“Bad” Sound
Ø Body Tenses
Physical
Ø ALERT
Awareness
Conscious
Sensa3on
Awareness
Percep3on
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Good/Bad?

9. Question 5: Perception Bias
a
c
b d
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10. The Autonomic Nervous System
Parasympathetic (PNS)
Sympathetic (SNS)
“Rest & Digest”
“Fight or Flight”
Neuro-transmitters:
Hormone -
Serotonin;
Adrenaline
Norepinephrine
Stress/
Anxiety
Feeling Good
REWARD
AVOID
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11. Reaction Bias
• Inappropriate Threat Response
• Response Automation and Reinforcement
• Physically Addictive
• Double Trouble: Present AND Historic Memory
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12. Technique 2: What’s the Worst
Thing That Could Happen?
1. Analyse the situation honestly
and ask “what is the worse thing
that can happen?”
2. Accept this worse case scenario
3. Devote time and energy to
improving on the worse case
scenario
“Be willing to have it so”
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13. Putting it into Practice
“You don't learn to
walk by following
4 PROBLEMS
rules. You learn by
1. Competing Methods
doing, and by falling
2. Information Overload
over”
3. Practical Application
Richard Branson
4. Personal Motivation
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14. Putting it into Practice – ‘The 4Ss’
Support
Skills
Science
Structure
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15. Structure
The OAR Model
• Diagnostic Tools
• Proprietary Change
Management System
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16. Science
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17. Skills
ü Tools & Techniques
• Meditation
ü Evidence Based
• What’s the worst
thing that could
ü Measurable happen?
Outcomes
• Count your blessings
ü Proven Results
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18. Technique 3: Count Your Blessings
• Choose a negative event that happened in the past
• How could it have been worse?
• How did you deal with it?
• What was the outcome?
• Was there a silver lining?
Ø Do you have a history of successfully working through
tough events?
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19. Support
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20. Transformational Reality
..........from
...........to
L information overload, lack of ü to clarity, vision, focus and
knowledge and suffocation by choice
prioritisation
L lacking structure, support and a ü to being effective, efficient
suitable guide
empowered and enthused
L feeling tired, low-energy, anxious, ü to being energetic and
worn-out or stressed out
purposeful with a zest for life
L too much volatility, instability and not ü to calmness, discernment and
enough tranquillity
greater resilience
L discord, dis-ease and dislocation ü to a congruent, re-connected
from self
and coherent you
ü to positive and productive
L too little community, connectedness
engagement with all those around
and average relationships
you
L feeling frustrated, imbalanced, or ü to redefining and redesigning a
burned out at work
fruitful professional life
L losing touch with leisure and ü to being creative, open-minded
recreation
and developing a sense of play
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L an average existence of quiet despair
meaning and purpose

21. Any Questions? “Happiness is not
something ready
made. It comes from
your own actions”
Dalai Lama
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22. Discovery Session
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23. Sustenance for Life
“The knowledge,
application and
changes you make
will be with you
forever”
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