A Neurobiologist’s Guide to Team Empowerment

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Cognitive Restructuring / Cognitive Behavioral “Training”

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy overview
• How to do Cognitive Restructuring

• Whoop! and the “whoop space”
• Improve Noticing Inputs

• Automatic Thoughts and Feelings
• External stimuli/events
• Bodily state (hangry)

• Improve Processing Emotions

• Expand Emotional Vocabulary (print/save this) 
• Talk with a friend
• Rubber Duck
• Journaling
• Read more Fiction
• Meditation

• Headspace App

• Improve Processing Thoughts

• Mindfulness training
• Cognitive Distortions / Maladaptive Cognitions / Unhelpful Thinking Styles

• Full List (wikipedia)
• 10 Unhelpful Thinking Styles Poster (print/save this) 

• Joyable (webapp for social anxiety)
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Book (David Burns)

Psychological Safety (PsycSafety)

• Intro Resources

• Amy Edmonson TEDx Talk on Psychological Safety
• Google’s Five Keys to a Successful Team
• Google’s guide to fostering PsycSafety

• Improving Communication

• Earned Dogmatism Effect
• 6 Levels of Communicating Validation
• Relationship Channel vs Task Channel (PEARLS)

• Improve Empathy

• Empathy is a choice
• Exercise your empathy muscle
• Expand emotional vocabulary (above)
• Vulnerability

• Brene Brown on empathy (video)
• Brene Brown on vulnerability (video)

• Reading the Mind in the Eyes test

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