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The Chief Psychology Officer
Exploring the topics of workplace psychology and conscious leadership. Amanda is an award-winning Chartered Psychologist, with vast amounts of experience in talent strategy, resilience, facilitation, development and executive coaching. A Fellow of the Association for Business Psychology and an Associate Fellow of the Division of Occupational Psychology within the British Psychological Society (BPS), Amanda is also a Chartered Scientist. Amanda is a founder CEO of Zircon and is an expert in leadership in crisis, resilience and has led a number of research papers on the subject; most recently Psychological Safety in 2022 and Resilience and Decision-making in 2020. With over 20 years’ experience on aligning businesses’ talent strategy with their organizational strategy and objectives, Amanda has had a significant impact on the talent and HR strategies of many global organizations, and on the lives of many significant and prominent leaders in industry. Dr Amanda Potter can be contacted on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/amandapotterzircon www.theCPO.co.uk
The Chief Psychology Officer
Ep48 Neuroscience of Resilience
What does neuroscience say about how you can cope effectively with stress and improve your resilience? In this episode, Senior Consultant Kristian Lees-Bell and the Chief Psychology Officer Dr Amanda Potter discuss the physiological and neurological reaction to stress, and the emotions we feel as a result. This podcast explains the chemical response to stress and starts to outline some actions you can take to train yourself to calm the stress response and feel happier and stronger in times of difficulty.
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Timestamps
Neuroscience of Resilience
· 00:00 – Introduction to the Neuroscience of Resilience
· 01:43 – Each step is as individual as a snowflake
· 03:07 – The states of play
· 03:43 – ARE YOU GETTING STRESSED?!
· 04:28 – One more thing the 70’s gave us
· 05:30 – Acute or Prolonged?
· 06:29 – Creeping on the come up…
· 07:04 – Resilience is self-care
The large thing between your ears
· 07:57 – You’re only as stressed as you feel
· 10:01 – Brains!
· 11:23 – Neuroplasticity revisited
· 12:46 – It’s all about healing
· 13:50 – This is all sounding a little risky…
· 15:08 – Lay all of your trust in 2 paleolithic lumps of grey matter
· 16:17 – Stress => growth
· 16:57 – The worrier
Cortex praefrontalis
· 17:45 – The part that makes you… you
· 18:42 – You’re built different when you’re younger
· 19:59 – Chemistry; the study of change
· 21:14 – Keep the roid rage under control
· 22:12 – Sympathetic vs Parasympathetic
· 23:27 – My mate Teri told me…
· 24:04 – Talk positively
· 25:05 – (Refer back to Podcast No.45)
C13H16N2O2
· 25:54 – Dopamine and Serotonin
· 28:33 – Let there be love!
· 29:27 – Laughter is the best medicine
· 30:00 – The Science of Sleep (not the movie)
· 31:19 – It’s like being in a spa…
· 32:54 – Mind altering chemicals
· 33:35 – It’s taken me a while to say this… but I feel like an imposter!
· 35:12 – A Dose of tips
· 37:56 – Just one more thing…
· 39:04 – The end.
Episodes are available here https://www.thecpo.co.uk/
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For more information about the BeTalent suite of tools and platform please contact: TheCPO@zircon-mc.co.uk
