‘THE ART OF DE-STRESSING’

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We are here to deliver cutting edge insights from Applied Organisational Neuroscience to help you grow, drive business success, and position your workplace as a hub for innovation and talent. This isn’t just strategy, it’s a living transformative shift for human co-collaboration in a tech driven future.

In Neuroletter #18, we explored why 2025 demands brain-based leadership, future fit decision making, and designing skills over roles. One essential brain health factor stands out: resilience – our ability to manage stress and foster emotional regulation for optimal cognitive performance.

Why Resilience Matters

Resilience isn’t just about bouncing back, it’s about adapting, staying sharp, and leading with clarity in a tumble dryer world. Without it, stress dilutes decision making, blocks creativity, and work culture suffers.

Chronic stress over activates the brain’s emotional monitor system, with unhelpful emotions reducing rational thinking in the executive function networks and shrinking the hippocampus which is key for memory and learning. Resilience helps regulate this response, keeping the brain flexible, focused, and able to optimally perform.

Successful leaders who role model how to regulate stress, foster adaptability, and create psychosocial safe environments, will feel comfortable with being uncomfortable. Resilient teams understand challenges turning diverse insights into opportunities boosting innovation, engagement, and collaboration.

Resilience fuels our brains leaving them free to create, innovate and think critically.

How to Foster Resilience

Resilience is a developed skill that with practice uses the brains natural neuroplasticity making it easier as you reshape your neuronal pathways.?

??Encourage Recovery - Normalise breaks, movement, and sleep-friendly habits to keep brains fresh and access the default-brain network.

?? Preventative Stress Regulation – Get comfortable with simple breathing, mindfulness, ?reflective and cognitive reframe techniques.

?? Create Psychosocial Safety – Put trust and respect central to your culture so people speak up, share, take risks, learn from failures and successes.

?? Strengthen Social Connection - Strong teams buffer stress; prioritise real human connection in hybrid work, get that Oxytocin flowing!

?? Promote Purpose Driven Work -People handle challenges better when they see meaning in what they do and achievement in their outcomes.

Small shifts that normalise stress and resilience over time will shape a culture where everyone wants to bring all their brain to work wherever and however, they are working.

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We are actively sharing how neuroscience can transform leadership, innovation, and mental-wellbeing in companies just like yours where people are curious to find out how they brains work and how they can discover and develop their full potential. Whilst we can’t fit all the evidenced science behind these insights into one Neuroletter, we do enjoy sharing more with our clients as groups or 1:1.

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