The brain’s ability to change: what neuroplasticity means for wellbeing

For most of the twentieth century, the dominant assumption in neuroscience was that the brain was essentially fixed after early development. The patterns laid down in childhood, the neural connections established through early experience, were understood to be largely permanent by adulthood. Change was possible at the margins, but the fundamental architecture of the brain […]

What are flow states, and can you actually create them at work?

Flow is not luck or inspiration. It has a neuroscience, a structure, and conditions that make it more or less likely. Here’s what the research says and what it means in practice.

The nervous system under pressure: what is actually happening?

When pressure builds at work, the nervous system is doing something specific. Understanding what it’s doing, and why, is the starting point for being able to work with it rather than against it.

What is capacity and why does it matter more than resilience?

Resilience has become one of the most overused words in workplace wellbeing. Here is why capacity is a more honest and more useful concept; and what building it actually involves.

Your nervous system at work: states, not traits

The way you show up under pressure is not your personality. It is your physiology. Understanding nervous system states is the first step to having genuine choice about how you respond.