Executive Functioning and Self-Regulation
Executive functioning and self-regulation skills are mental processes that enable your brain to plan, remember instructions, manage multiple tasks, filter distractions, to organize, to prioritize tasks, to set and to achieve goals, to monitor your progress, to control impulses and to focus attention and shift your focus smoothly when needed. We are here to equip you with your highest executive functioning and self-regulation performance levels for whatever you take on in and outside of school.
You are not born with these skills; you are born with the potential for these skills to develop. We are here to help you develop them well. Executive functioning systems live in a part of your brain, the prefrontal cortex, that does not fully develop until you are 25-27 years of age. After that, your brain can restructure itself with more effort to support these functions. So, you are in a prime time of your life to make sure these functions are optimized for lifelong success.
Challenges like not being able to get a handle on your emotions, or not being able to stop the words or behavior you don’t expect to come from you, or not being able to focus and keep your attention on what you want to, these keep you from your life potential (academic, intellectual, social, achievement, intimate relationship, athletic, creative… potentials combined) both now and in the future. NeuroSphere Academy teaches you how to gain greater control over these areas of challenge so that your mind and body are most ready when it matters most to you. Rarely in life is there a greater freedom and confidence than this.
Authenticity and Leadership
Authentic self-leadership, in essence, is knowing yourself so well that very little, if anything, inside of you or outside of you can divert you from your path. We are not all leaders of others, but living life to the fullest means living it in a self-directed, or self-led way. And no leader of others will be effective in any sustainable and respected way without first being an good leader of the self. Here, your self means every part of your personality or all that makes you who you are. Authenticity means being true to who you are and keeping up your credibility you earn by knowing yourself well and relating well to yourself.
Being self-directed means being conscious, intentional, coherent, creative, balanced, relational, confident, good at taking care of yourself, having compassion for yourself and others, maintaining your standards, flexing and adapting from a core of stability, and fully able to regulate your emotions, your attention and your behavior. This means trusting yourself because you’ve earned reliability. This means confidence that grows from true competence. This means you instinctively know what to do in more and more situations and have to act or pretend less and less to find comfort inside. This means reaching adulthood as a self-reliant, resourceful, resilient and interdependent individual ready for whatever you set your heart and mind to. Authentic self-leadership begins with you deciding that you want it.
