Mind Maps: Making Change Meaningful - by Jan Russell

COURSE

Mind Maps: Making Change Meaningful

With Jan Russell

This course is for anyone who wishes to create sustainable change, whether in habit, in attitude, contentment, or levels of success. It achieves many outcomes, providing a map leading to various outcomes. You can learn to understand yourself at different levels and gain insight into why you might respond to situations and processes in particular ways. Many people who have made changes in life, or to learn new ways, find it sometimes easy and sometimes not so easy. In the framework offered in this course, you might begin to see how making change at one level may require change at another level. For example, to change a behavior, we might need to change our belief in ourselves. The model is a powerful tool for change. My particular version of this mind map is an adaptation of the pyramid of neurological change which I first learned from Robert Dilts. The map may be used with great effectiveness to make small changes in attention and intention, which yield significant results and support. This is one of my favorite tools to support personal transformation. By the end of the course, you will have a clear understanding of the levels involved. The course uses a mix of tutor input, exercises, and guided mindful practice. Some tracks have music behind them, and I choose and would like to acknowledge the very talented Chris Collins whose work I favor. Please do comment in the course classroom, I am always interested to know how you get on with the course and will answer any queries. All are very welcome.


Meet your Teacher

Dr Jan Russell is an experienced and creative teacher on Insight Timer with several courses current courses on the app, as well as several free meditations. Jan is a vital and mature teacher and spent her career doing hands-on work in transformational practices with individuals and teams across diverse settings. She taught, to master level in Counseling and Coaching, at several UK Universities, for which she won a visiting Senior Fellowship in her field. She is well published and a certified trainer in Neuro Linguistics, an accredited Master Coach as well as holding a PhD in psychological practice. Jan is also a mindfulness practitioner. She combines the ethos and practices of meditation, story and the tools of evidence based psychology to support people in everyday living and in transformational practices. She is humorous and down to earth, resilient as a result of a full life with several deep challenges alongside a whole lot of joy. She is an independent woman, a mum, a grandmother, and the elder of her family, and believes in the values of accessibility, and of human rights. She considers herself fortunate to love what she does, and to continue to pursue her occupation for her enjoyment, for the gift of being able to give, and for helping her to gain a meaningful income to fund the extras of life, particularly the ability to travel, and to live life with adventure. Welcome to her work.

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7 Days

770 students

4.8 stars

11 min / day

Clarity

English


Lesson 1

Introducing Mind Maps | For Your Mental Pleasure

In this session, you will be introduced to the overview of the model used in this course, with explanations and examples. The session is a mix of tutor input and some interactive questions for you to consider, and as ever, you are invited to use the course classroom to share your questions and comments on this first lesson. Enjoy!

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Lesson 2

Personal Space And Your Environment

In this session, we discuss the environment, both your external environment, and your internal environment. This is themed around the notion that people need personal space, and that this can be mental, conceptual, or practical. The session combines input with a guided mindful reflection.

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Lesson 3

Being And Doing

This session brings you the notion of behaviors and their scope. We are always behaving, even when behavior is consciously unintentional, we are always active in some way both mentally and physically. In this session we bring awareness to how we behave, and the levels of conscious and unconscious choices in those behaviors.

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Lesson 4

What You Are Capable Of

This middle level in the mind map focuses on the power of your capabilities. Capabilities are your internal resources, a powerhouse of possibility. Yet many of us do not recognize, draw on, or review our capabilities, to use or to add to. In this session, you are invited to bring into awareness your vault of capabilities and to consider how you might employ them more fully.

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Lesson 5

Beliefs, Foundations Of The Mind

Beliefs are pivotal to all else that you do in life, and are often embedded at an unconscious level. In this session, you will explore the role and the power of beliefs and how they link to some of the other levels of change. You will be invited to reflect on some of the beliefs and values that you hold dear and to ponder on whether they are the most helpful.

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Lesson 6

Your Personal Presence

In this session, you will consider the many facets of identity and spirituality that combine to create your presence, and the way that you are in everyday life, and evaluate if this is how you want to be. Personal presence is one of the most powerful levels of being, within which resides your authenticity, confidence, and potential. The session is a mix of input and reflection and will discuss how desired changes in this area can be triggered through other levels of the mind map.

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Lesson 7

Recap And Resources

In this session, we summarize the course, outlining the levels which you have learned and offer ideas on how to use them, and how you might continue to learn about them.

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Recent Reviews

Mardene

December 31, 2024

Wonderfully helpful as always. Thank you!

Yana

October 26, 2024

It is an amazing course 🔥 I love the short sessions form full of so much insights, value, self reflection and love. The voice is specifically relaxing and inspiring to me. I am so grateful to the author and the platform that this course reached my life and supported me and inspired me on my journey of my life of love!

Wendy

August 30, 2024

Lots of wonderful ideas to soak up here - worth a repeat! Thank you 😊

Jane

July 28, 2024

Thank you for sharing this very interesting and informative course. It definitely gives much food for thought.

Renee

March 21, 2024

Great course with so many things to ponder and think about. I will definitely listen to it again! Thank you for your time and dedication to this app, Jan. I look forward to your next course!

KatieG

March 15, 2024

Dr Russell lays out a paradigm that was not entirely new to me but with elements that helped me integrate other ways of considering my identity and relationship to my self and others. Jan brings a lovely quiet calm and compassion to all her courses that I’m also drawn to along with info that’s practical and prompts for deeper thinking. I’m a follower and fan!

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