Post-traumatic Growth: Reframing a Pandemic?

This article on Post-traumatic Growth is the second that we’ve published from the ICF Neuroscience mini programme that ran through the Spring of 2021. In it, Dr Iain Price and coach and therapist Mark Evans explore how our clients’ brains are being impacted by the pandemic and how we might be able to better play our part in our planet’s ongoing recovery.

As our world still reels and adjusts to living with COVID-19, we face the potential for a large-scale exposure to clients suffering the associated knock-on effects from COVID related trauma.  The loss of loved ones; recovery from illness; social separation and isolation; the loss of jobs, colleagues team members; increased domestic strain and violence; increased financial insecurity as well as global uncertainty for the future; are impacting our clients’ ability to be present, survive and thrive. 

As coaches what should we be looking out for?  How can we best help our clients to reframe their trauma?  Can the impact of trauma legitimately be used for a force for recovery and growth? 

Article 1 – The Neurodiversity Paradigm

This paper explores how all brains are different and rather than thinking that this is a disability or a disadvantage, instead seeing how this can be the edge in yourself, your teams and your clients – to bring diversity to the ways we can think and apply that thinking.  This article challenges the neurotypical agenda that we can all so easily fall into.  This is central to Think it Out’s ethos of seeing potential and releasing brains and minds to be uniquely more who they are; to unlock greater individual and corporate senses of identity, value and happiness.

Article 3 coming soon

Neurofutures: explores how neuroscience has grown and evolved as a discipline over the last century into a powerful resource on what it is to be human and how it can give all of us more agency to get more of the life we want and need.  The conclusion is that neuroscience has so much more to bring and reveal to us for personal and corporate growth, development and wellbeing – unlocking even higher levels of thinking and application in the near future.

All articles have links and references to further reading, resources and support material as well as suggested take-away summaries for coaches, leaders and curious readers.

We would very much like to hear your thoughts and experience on these subjects.  We would also really like to be able to talk with how you can get more of the benefits of these in your life.  So please do get in touch: info@thinkitout.co.uk