Strengthening Your Inner IQ: Align Body and Mind for Optimal Results

Course details

In our modern culture, peace, freedom, and joy may take the back seat while stress and anxiety become driving forces in our lives. We want to live more mindful lives, but where to start? In this course, Diane Breneman, founder and CEO at Meditative Science, shares what she’s learned about meditative, formative, and contemplative practices that enable you to change your trajectory, empower your creative abilities, and become an empathetic and authentic leader. Diane focuses on your inner intelligence quotient and shows you ways to use focus as an essential tool. She explains empathy in leadership, as well as how to distinguish between agility and stress agility. Diane goes over building clarity, strengthening your resilience, and finding your inspiration. She also covers your power as a leader and the power of choice. Diane discusses the process of creating with the mind, then finishes up with instructions on how to practice the ABCs of I-IQ.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Introduction

1. Your I-IQ - Inner Intelligence Quotient as a Leader

02 - Leading as an agent of change
03 - Expanding your I-IQ to make choices as leaders
04 - Your unlimited capacity to expand your clarity, agility, and awareness
05 - Strength in grounding and awareness
06 - Grounding to create strength and focusing on the world

2. Focus

07 - How emotions drive your brain and your body
08 - Your emotional state as a leader
09 - Checking in with your body to optimize your executive function
10 - Focus as an essential tool for leadership
11 - Inner scan to identify emotional embodiment
12 - Inner scan to identify emotional embodiment exercise
13 - Introduction to emotions in the body

3. Empathy in Leadership

14 - Empathy versus sympathy
15 - Empathy - A powerful tool for successful outcomes
16 - Empathy - A powerful tool for connections
17 - The practice of strengthening empathy
18 - Softening the body, emotions, and mind
19 - Introduction to voices of the emotions

4. Agility versus Stress Agility

20 - The cost of stress
21 - What s stress Rigid body rigid mind
22 - Rigid body - Rigid mind
23 - Introduction to exercise
24 - Welcoming emotions to allow clarity and flow - Part 1
25 - Welcoming emotions to allow clarity and flow - Part 2

5. Clarity and Strengthening Resilience

26 - Overcoming confusion and doubt
27 - Resilience as a tool for leadership
28 - Strengthening your capacity for resilience
29 - Your nervous system and tools to increase your resilience
30 - Breathe to activate and strengthen the vagus nerve - Part 1
31 - Breathe to activate and strengthen the vagus nerve - Part 2

6. Inspiration

32 - The power of inspiration
33 - Emotions that affect your inspiration
34 - How do you inspire
35 - Releasing rigidity
36 - Breathe to create flow in areas of rigidity inspiration
37 - Emotion flowing introduction

7. Power

38 - What is power as a leader
39 - The power of courage
40 - The power of alignment
41 - Integrating the I-IQ to be powerful

8. The Power of Choice

42 - Choosing your emotional state
43 - The building blocks of emotional choice
44 - Emotional choice as a leader
45 - A powerful and simple choosing practices
46 - Creating the form of peace exercise

9. Creating with the Mind

47 - The I-IQ of peace as a gateway to creativity
48 - Optimizing the fuel of your creation
49 - Let s create
50 - Visualizing for your optimal I-IQ with intention
51 - Introduction to audio exercise
52 - Experience with clarity your new creation

10. Practicing the ABCs of I-IQ of the I-IQ Inner-Intelligence

53 - Accept, breathe, choose
54 - Lesson two - Accept
55 - Breathe
56 - Choose
57 - Introduction to audio exercise
58 - ABC as the gateway to your I-IQ