Positive intelligence – making your mind your best friend!

Your mind can be your best friend or worst enemy. Saboteurs, inner critic, imposter syndrome are the various labels used to described voices in your head that generate stress and negative emotions and can get in the way with how you handle work and life’s challenges. They sabotage your potential for both happiness, performance and wellbeing. Strengthening the part of your brain that focus on your potential and quietening the part that sabotages you is a skill that can be learnt.

The session will introduce 7 of the most common self-sabotaging voices and help participants to understand more about their own. Positive Intelligence techniques help participants start to quieten the negative chatter and unlock more potential. When practiced regularly they can help people rebound from setbacks, recover quickly and focus on potential rather than pitfalls!

The various personas include: -

- The Hyper achiever

- The Judge

- The Pleaser

- The Victim

- The Hyper Rational

- The Controller

- The Perfectionist

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Understand what we mean by positive intelligence
• Be better able to recognise 7 of the most common personas of the inner critic
• Understand the neuroscience of the inner critic and how to make it your best friend
• Have some techniques to help develop positive intelligence and be better able to bounce back after a set back

Presenter information:

Denise Chilton is a career coach and leadership development facilitator. She has been supporting researchers and the academic community at the University of Liverpool for over 10 years so knows only too well the challenges faced within HEI.

A career coach on the Prosper programme she has been providing group and individual coaching programmes for Post-docs and Early Career Academics since 2015 helping them to feel more confident, better manage their time, be more productive and develop their interpersonal skills.

In 2017 she won the Northern Power Woman Mentor of the Year Award for her work supporting women in STEM. She has worked with Faculties across the University delivering initiatives that have supported the Athena Swan Charter

The Researcher Development Framework (RDF) attributes developed during this session are relevant to the following sub-domains:

Domain A: Knowledge and Intellectual Abilities

A2: Cognitive Abilities   

A3: Creativity    

Domain B: Personal Effectiveness

B1: Personal Qualities   

B2: Self-Management

B3: Professional and Career Development   

Domain D: Engagement, Influence and Impact

D1: Working with Others            

D2: Communication and Dissemination

D3: Engagement and Impact

Accessibility Adjustments and Alternative Format requests: If you require any accessibility adjustments or have any questions about this session, please contact the the Academy's RD team Researcher@liverpool.ac.uk at least 7 days before the session date so that your requirements can be referred to the facilitator(s) who will make every effort to address them where possible.

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