What Triggers Your Movie?

When he said _________ I thought __________. How many times have you thought "oh no you didn't!@*" How our brains signal trust or distrust, fear or flight and how to calm and redirect these reactions has become a flourishing industry due to incredible breakthroughs in neuroscience.

We now know trust serves up a feel good cocktails of chemicals like oxytocin, dopamine, and serotonin. Distrust serves up a toxic mix of cortisol, norepinephrine, and testosterone. Neuroscience proves we all will be triggered because we have this wonderful region in our brains, we sorely need, called our limbic system. This same science shows us where rational thought lives, in our prefrontal cortex. The journey and tension between these two distinct regions of our brain impact all of our relationships. Thanks to this burgeoning field learning and development professionals have a motherlode of tools and processes to help learners successfully navigate the brain terrain.

Dr. David Rock, founder of the Neuroleadership Institute developed the S.C.A.R.F. acronym to describe the prominent mental stressors (real or perceived) that trigger the movies we start to create in our minds; so artfully depicted in the Pixar Animation Disney movie Inside Out.