What is Positive Intelligence?

We all know what it means to work on physical fitness. Positive Intelligence (PQ) refers to the process of building mental fitness. This science-based process starts with recognizing the internal thoughts and feelings that often sabotage us. These negative thoughts have created neural pathways in our brains. They create fight, flight, or freeze patterns that often stay with us forever.

By strengthening the part of the brain that is calmer and wiser, we can reinforce different pathways, pathways that allow us to stay calm in the midst of stress and even conflict and avoid responses based on old patterns developed in our early years that no longer serve us.

What does this have to do with neurodiversity, Neurodiversity Coach?
Positive intelligence, like emotional intelligence, can help anyone, but it can be an even bigger asset for people who live or work with children who are neurodiverse. As parents and teachers, our buttons are pushed every day—all the more so when the button pushers’ brains work differently than ours.

Shirzad Chamine has created a process and a state of the art App to help us uncover our personal triggers and give us tools to manage them and create different patterns from which to react. This process also provides us with evidence-based strategies and techniques to reduce anxiety and respond to people and situations around us from a healthier place.

These strategies and techniques can be taught to children as young as four years old. Children understand that we have negative thoughts and reactions (saboteurs) and that we can learn to spend time with the wiser part of our brains (sage).

You can take a free saboteur assessment on positiveintelligence.com and then email me with any questions you might have. I plan to start 8 week PQ groups whenever I have 4-6 people interested in joining. I can also coach you in a one on one setting if you prefer. 55lisanelson@gmail.com.