Coaching as a method in its pure form and not as a motivational medium can help people start thinking again, become observant and accountable for everything they do or the way they react. It is a tool that can be used in any difficult situation with its ultimate goal being, not to heal a trauma or to replace therapy, but to enhance a sense of mental alertness, critical thinking, observation skills and quicker decision-making, among others.

So what is brain-to-brain coaching? Why and how can coaches help in difficult situations (and easy ones, too)? What is their additional value during a crisis?

• What is brain-to-brain coaching?
• Coaching or psychology?
• The benefits of coaching when used in Red Circumstances
• How can a coach help when things are rough?
• Red Circumstances and Coaching (reading material)

The world constantly throws a lot of challenges at you. Others are more serious and others may be less. Of the most effective ways to deal with them is if you understand you own role amidst any situation. How you define this role. The responsibility you have for your choices and reactions. And to always prepare for your role in the next situation. This means you constantly need to disrupt yourself. To do so, you first need to define your role as an individual. Time to take stock of personality strengths, priorities, values system and key attributes as your tools.

Lessons from former Disney CEO, Bob Iger.

• Your role in every movie of life
• Strategic priorities: how do you find them and how you set them
• The 8 principles of leadership by Bob Iger, former Disney CEO
• The standards that define your ability to deal with Red Circumstances
• Whom do you expect to motivate you and save you?
• The 8 principles of leadership by Bob Iger (reading material)

Keeping your cool and controlling your stress are instructions that rarely work out.  For any one of us to be able to stay calm and not be overwhelmed by anxiety of fear, or even both, a lot of preparation needs to have been done prior to the emergence of a stressful situation.

The PsyCap has been found scientifically to be one of the best methods to develop "capital" we can fall back on when the times get tough and use as “currency” to thrive when the times are good. The PsyCap can be built if we build each one of the four pillars that comprise it and which we will analyse together. With elements from Positive Psychology and Neurobiology, the PsyCap could be a great solution for dealing with Red Circumstances.

• What is the PsyCap (Psychological Capital)?
• What Positive Psychology actually is
• Pillar #1: hope
• Pillar #2: self-efficacy
• Pillar #3: optimism
• Pillar #4: resilience

The notions of fragility and antifragility were first introduced by Nassim Taleb (2012). In short, fragility is related to how a system suffers from the variability of its environment beyond a certain preset threshold, while antifragility refers to when it benefits from this variability.

Which group we belong to defines how we cope in hard times. Uncertainty, chaos, randomness and disorder may be stressors for some but for others it seems to be their lifeline. To deal successfully with a Red Circumstance, we need to develop as antifragile to a certain extent. 

• Which person can be characterized as “fragile”
• Which person can be characterized as “antifragile”?
• How can you tell which group you belong to?
• How can you build an antifragile state of mind?
• Dealing with Red Circumstances through Taleb’s concept of antifragility (reading material)

Time and stress management, worrying and frustrations, sudden changes in domestic and professional status quo require practical solutions. Today we have forced distancing from loved ones, we have our children around more and different kinds of pressure comes to those who still have employment. We are asked to navigate this new normal by adopting certain practices. These practices are either not to our liking or we do not know how to apply them.

In this final workshop we take a look at some practical ideas and some lessons from Mowgli and the Jungle Book. Not just a story for kids, the lessons can be applied in many difficult situations. 

• Mowgli: the law of the jungle
• Lesson #1 from the Jungle: becoming an adult during the current Red Circumstance
• Lesson #2 from the Jungle: self-respect and respect
• Lesson #3 from the Jungle: competencies and skills during the Red Circumstance
• Keeping calm: how can we do that? 
• Practical ideas to deal with Red Circumstances (reading material)