SPEAKING : CORPORATE SERVICES : WORKSHOPS

We offer services in the field of organizational and occupational psychiatry and psychology. Included are personality assessments and psychometrics, workshops in stress management, consultations and interventions in corporate dysfunction. Productivity, performance and team dynamics issues, executive coaching and mentoring, creative intelligence training and support services for R&D and new product development teams.

WORKSHOPS

Making the shift from left to right brain thinking, a whole brain approach to problem solving.

Overview:
The ability to gain access to right brain functioning is an essential skill in problem solving and creative thinking. Developing and gaining practice with this skill is valuable to anyone engaged in a broad range of creative activity, such as writing, the visual arts, advertising, but especially in new process and product development. Creative blocks are common and occur when creative activity remains a matter of conscious effort (left brain activity) and the shift from left to right brain fails.

Course objectives:
At the end of the presentation the participant
- will have a clear understanding of some of the psychophysiological mechanisms involved,
-will have had the opportunity to have established the fact that he or she is able to execute the shift,
-through several repetitions of the basic training process will, depending on individual differences in speed of learning, acquire at least the rudiments of this skill,
-will identify the usual obstacles to making the L-R shift happen and ways to avoid them.

Presenter: Peter Berndt, M.D.

Format: Didactic and experiential

Course Outline:
1. General theoretical considerations of right and left brain functioning and its psychophysiology.
2. Historical examples of spontaneous L-R brain shifts (e.g. Kekule’s discovery of the benzene ring and others).
3. The role of left brain chatter and distracting input from within and outside the body in the L-R brain shift and strategies to focus and still conscious thought processes.
4. Brief exposition on the negative role of conscious effort.
5. Experiential part of the presentation with focus on teaching and training in the requisite psychological skills.