Ann gets curious about Kim’s recent swing of emotion and the recoding of mindsets that needs time to return to a ventral state.

We are so excited to share this interview with you. On the Journey in Transformational Leadership programme in 2022, Kim and Ann invited Andrew Monk, Executive Director of Global Engagement at Bristol University to share his experience working from a Ventral State with the cohort. Now we can bring it to you! Listen to find out: How Andrew shifts his state to one of balance The impact a ventral state has on his team His experience of leadership How he notices swings of state and uses anchors to stay there How he is exploring new mechanisms for inspiring success in his teams What efficiency comes from this state How decision making feels

When you are stuck in a nervous system swing what do you need? Some selfishness and people around you who believe in you as more than your stress state! Isn’t that community…?

We set targets and goals all the time. Daily goals, quarterly and annual targets, professional development goals, team goals. But have you ever stopped to understand if they are driven by fear? Or the impact of communicating them from stress states? Ann and Kim pull out a whirlwind discussion.

When you realise your nervous system is responsible for how you behave in different situations and ‘who you are’ is different when you work from a Ventral Vagal nervous system it can be necessary to redefine how you describe yourself. How easy is that? Ann and Kim discuss.

Mindfulness encourages us to be present with difficult emotions. Ann and Kim talk about the idea of ‘appetite’ for them. Going beyond being comfortable with big emotions to sitting with curious readiness for them.

In this episode Ann opens up about a week of feeling a lot of Dorsal retreating aka 'small' energy and how this doesn't fit with her 'personality' so its so easy to make it wrong. What happens if you take away the story of 'small being wrong'? How can you use it to help you find more presence and more Ventral balance?

Ann and Kim discuss the strange polarity of feeling alive and calm all at once in a balanced Ventral state. Have you ever experienced it?

Picking up from the last episode Ann and Kim talk about ‘rejecting’ someone else’s beliefs in order to find helpful ones for yourself and discuss the perils of doing this from your fear state nervous system. What does it sound like from a Ventral Vagal nervous system?

Ann and Kim compare life as a leader with the Beech tree and how we set boundaries to self preserve.