Toolbox for Thriving With Humans

An Expanding Collection of My Top Energizers, Exercises & Sources for Meaningful Collaboration & Personal Growth

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Silent Eye Gazing

This is a paired presence exercise that strips interaction down to its essentials. By removing words and roles, participants practice staying present with another person — without performing, fixing, or withdrawing.

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Raisin Exploration

This is a simple attention exercise that slows experience down to reveal how quickly the mind rushes, labels, and disengages. By working with an ordinary object, participants practice presence, curiosity, and sensory awareness.

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Hero’s Journey

The Hero’s Journey is a reflective storytelling exercise that helps people make sense of challenge, change, and growth. By mapping real experiences onto a simple narrative structure, participants uncover meaning, clarify purpose, and see how struggle often precedes insight.

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Neuroscience of Leadership

A concise reminder that leadership suffers when analysis crowds out human awareness — and why great leaders learn to switch modes, not stay stuck in one.

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Meditation’s Impact on the Brain

Compelling neuroscience showing that attention and emotional regulation are not fixed traits but trainable skills, with measurable brain changes appearing after just weeks of consistent practice.

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Body Scan

This exercise trains attention by moving it out of the head and back into the body — where experience actually begins. By sensing more clearly, people tend to become less reactive, more intuitive, and better attuned to emotions as they arise in the body.

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Loving Kindness

Loving-Kindness isn’t about being nice or soft. This practice trains compassion as a stabilizing force — reducing internal friction so clearer thinking and better collaboration can emerge.

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Friend vs. Self

A short reflection exercise that reveals the gap between how we treat others in difficulty and how we treat ourselves. It helps participants develop a more effective inner coach without lowering standards.

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Focus On The Breath

A simple guided mindfulness practice that trains attention by returning, again and again, to the sensation of the breath. It helps participants stabilize focus, regulate the nervous system, and reset presence.

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Deep Listening

Deep Listening is a structured partner exercise that separates speaking from listening to train attention, presence, and empathy. It builds trust and psychological safety by letting people experience what it feels like to be truly heard.

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Healthy Skepticism vs. Cynicism

Cynicism often disguises itself as realism, but it quietly erodes trust, creativity, and collaboration. This episode shows how growth-oriented mindsets and empathy are trainable skills that shape healthier teams and more resilient leaders.

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Love Questions

Love Questions uses carefully sequenced questions to help people connect beyond roles and titles. It builds trust, empathy, and psychological safety by pairing self-disclosure with deep, uninterrupted listening.

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Your Living Funeral

Your Living Funeral is a reflective exercise that invites leaders to step back and consider the legacy they want to leave behind. By imagining how they would like to be remembered, it helps clarify what truly matters—and how to live and lead accordingly.

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Values Exploration

Values Exploration is a reflective exercise that helps leaders clarify and prioritize what truly matters to them. It supports calmer decision-making, reduces defensiveness under pressure, and anchors leadership behavior in personal integrity.

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Happiness & Self-Management

High achievement without inner grounding often leads to quiet emptiness. This episode reframes happiness as a discipline of character, meaning, and emotional self-management — not a byproduct of success.

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