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The Neuroscience School
Certificate in Applied Neuroscience
15-Week Online Program
The objectives are that you'll be able to:
- Understand the brain processes behind thinking, emotion, and behavior - and turn the neuroscience you learn into actionable tools you can use with clients
- Help clients understand why they react the way they do, why they do things the way they do, and why they keep doing things the same way instead of changing so that they can apply the neuroscience to themselves, and use it with their team
The techniques, insights, and lessons you can directly apply in your work include:
- Helping your clients create neuroplastic change
- Harnessing the power of the prefrontal cortex to improve focus and decision-making
- Structuring goals for success and use dopamine to your advantage
- How to make progress every day
- How to use insight for creative problem-solving
- Harnessing the power of flow
- Lisa Feldman Barrett’s new theory of constructed emotion
- The neuroscience of stress
- The thoughts, behaviors and actions to develop resilience
- How our neurobiology is involved in perceiving, thinking about, and behaving towards others
- The importance of gut health for psychological and cognitive functioning
- How exercise improves cognitive functioning and psychological wellbeing, and its importance for healthy aging
- How adequate sleep protects our mental health, physical health, quality of life, and safety
This program was designed by Dr. Irena O’Brien, PhD, a cognitive neuroscientist who has been studying psychology and neuroscience for over 20 years. After working as an accountant for 15 years, Irena went back to university and obtained her PhD in Psychology from the Université du Québec à Montréal, with a postdoctoral fellowship at McGill University. She is the founder of The Neuroscience School, a neuroscience training and information program for coaches and helping professionals, where she un-complicates neuroscience and teaches practical evidence-based tools and strategies her students can use in their practice.
