Shift the balance in your mind
Your mind is constantly sabotaging your potential for both performance and happiness. But you can increase your mental fitness. You can strengthen the part of the your brain that serves you - the Sage. And quiet the part of your brain that sabotages you.
You have two very different regions in your brain.
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The Survive Region: Your Inner Saboteurs
Saboteurs are the voices in your head that generate negative emotions when you handle life’s challenges. Being in the survival region of your brain hurts your ability to see clearly and choose the most impactful response. |
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The Thrive Region: Your Inner Sage
Your Sage lives in an entirely different region of your brain. This region is wired for creativity and big picture awareness of what is important and choosing the best course of action. |
The PQ Program: Upgrading Your Mental Operating System
Grow the three core mental muscles to thrive in challenging times.
Build powerful habits for a positive mindMost attempts at positive change fail because we stop at insight and don't build habits. Sustained change towards a more positive mind requires laying down neural pathways to form new habits through consistent daily practice.
And that's what the immersive foundational PQ program is designed to do. |
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Immersive Foundational Program: How it works
Daily Practice15 minutes/day of app-guided practice enables you to establish mental muscles (neural pathways). These exercises are bite-sized to fit your busy schedule and customized based on how you self-sabotage.
Measurable ProgressYou’ll feel motivated through instant feedback on exactly how much progress you’re making towards building the 3 core muscles of mental fitness. Brain rewiring may be visible in MRI imaging within 8 weeks.
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Weekly FocusWeekly hour-long video delivers deep experiential exploration of the week’s focus. You’ll feel inspired and energized to practice during the week in order to sustain the benefits experienced during the video sessions.
Community SupportWe help you establish a support and accountability group with other program participants. Research has shown this to be a critical success factor for establishing lasting new positive habits of the mind.
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6 Weeks to Install the PQ Operating System
Week 1: Self-Command Muscle |
Learn the small, but mighty, process called "PQ Reps". Just like reps in the gym, each 10-second PQ reps builds your self-command muscle. Standing, seated or moving. Eyes open or eyes closed. While engaging with others or while solo. You learn to do PQ reps anytime, any place, with anyone. With each rep you develop greater mastery of over you own mind, quiet your saboteurs, and activate the sage region of your brain.
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Week 2-3: Saboteur Interceptor Muscle |
You learn how to intercept the Judge, the master saboteur, and your top accomplice saboteur, as they try to hijack your thoughts, feelings and actions. Saboteurs all promise one thing, but deliver the opposite. You'll learn to expose the lies, limiting beliefs and damage of your own saboteurs. So that they no longer run your life, ruin your relationships or destroy your wellbeing.
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Week 4-6: Sage Muscle |
You practice the sage perspective that every problem or challenge can be converted into a gift or opportunity. You learn the three gifts technique. And you get to generate the gift through one or more of the five sage powers: empathize, explore, innovate, navigate and activate.
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Lifelong Applications: Months 3+
PQ is an operating system with many applications. In the first eight weeks you develop your three core mental muscles. But - like physical fitness - mental fitness is not a one-and-done, short-term training. After the initial immersive 8 weeks, the modules in the app then enable you to use those muscles for a variety of work and life applications. You continue to grow - choosing your own pace and focus. You'll also be eligible to join a PQ Mastermind Group for ongoing coaching support and community.
Stress
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Wellness
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Relationships
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Parenting
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Stress is generated by our saboteurs. Learn personalized strategies to shift from saboteur to sage response to minimize stress.
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Discover the neuroscience of your mind/body connection. Sage-led strategies improve your sleep, diet, and exercise and quiet saboteur interference.
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Discover the 3:1 positive to negative ratio required in any healthy relationship (personal or professional). Learn to build and maintain healthy relationships.
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Intercept common saboteur-lead parenting traps. Learn parenting strategies aimed at boosting your kid's foundational mental fitness, self-command and sage strength.
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Career Planning
Access your sage wisdom to guide your career to maximize both achievement and fulfillment. Guard against saboteur traps that might bring achievement, but not fulfillment.
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Conflict
All conflicts are a dance of the saboteurs. Discover how your saboteurs are fueling your conflicts. Shift from conflict to win-win solutions that deepen the relationship.
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Leadership
Challenge outmoded saboteur assumptions about how to lead. Learn a leadership model that simultaneously brings out the best sage qualities in yourself and others.
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Performance
Every saboteurs sabotages performance. Develop a personalized performance plan using your self-command and sage powers for optimal productivity.
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What Makes the PQ Mental Fitness Program Different to Other Professional and Development Programs?
Focus on Habit FormationMost trainings result in short-lived improvements. For sustained results, the program focuses on building neural pathways that form lasting new habits. That's why it's called "mental fitness".
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Enrollment deadline: August 30, 2022
Imagine yourself able to remain calm, clear headed, stress free and positive - even in the midst of handling work and life's greatest challenges.
What becomes possible for you, in achievement, in peace of mind and wellness, and in your relationships?
What becomes possible for you, in achievement, in peace of mind and wellness, and in your relationships?
PQ Friends and Family
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PQ Group Coaching
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Who will lead the Program?
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Shirzad Chamine delivers all the in-app content. Shirzad is the New York Times best selling author of Positive Intelligence. He has been the CEO of the largest coach training school in the world and has trained both faculty and students at Stanford and Yale business schools.
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Sue Mann, Certified PQ Coach, will lead you through the program, and provide live support and coaching*. Sue has lead hundreds of people, individually and in groups, through the PQ Program.
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PQ has changed my life. At work. At home. I was thinking of leaving. Now life couldn't be better. We've made positive changes. And our whole organizational culture is turning around. Wow! Finally I’ve found what I have been seeking for some time. I’ve known about neural pathways, etc. but didn’t understand the concept of how to create new pathways. I see myself differently, I’m learning to accept and love myself unconditionally for the first time in my life. -- Participant, Fortune 100 organization |
I thought this was it - the end of the line for my career. I feared I had stalled out. My saboteurs were keeping me silent, stuck and afraid. And then I was tapped to head a strategic new business unit as a VP. Promotion and a new project. PQ got me there. VP, Global IT Firm This is life-changing. For too long, the judge has been hard at work convincing me of more than I care to admit. How liberating it is to now recognize that echo and quiet it before it gets too loud and becomes all I can hear. |
I have read a lot on the topic of "thoughts in our head". The PQ program gave me a practical way to actually work with them. I've reduced my stress, anxiety and frustrations. And brought the concepts to my team. -- Account Lead, Global Real Estate Firm PQ has been a game changer - not only for work, but at home too. I’ve discussed it with my entire team of 200+ staff. It’s the best experience I’ve had...with amazing exercises that have had concrete results in how I approach my work, others and innovation. -- VP, Fortune 100 firm |