Theory and Methods

Using the latest scientific methods in learning, psychology, and neuroscience

Learning Delivery

All seminars, workshops, and coaching are delivered according to best practices
for optimal learning and long term transfer of knowledge.  

Empathy

Emotion and motivation are paramount to the learning process. Feel connected to the material and the people in your programs as you learn to change.

Personalized Learning

Participants actively engage in and drive the process. No passive learning!

Attention, Generation, and Spacing

Multiple modalities, including presentations, video, and text increase attention while a careful combination of spoken, written, and behavioral activities generate insight for change. Development is spaced out to optimize long-term transfer of learning.

Progress Monitoring

Know exactly where you stand at all times in regard to progress on mutually agreed upon standards.

Developmental Psychology

Dr. Robert Keegan’s Constructive Development and Immunity to Change

Constructive Development

Humans shape their experience and construct their own reality in 5 stages of growth over the lifespan.

Fundamentally incomplete

Due to the dialectical nature of our world, we are fundamentally incomplete in all areas of life and always benefit from perspective.

Immunity to Change

People form emotional, cognitive, and behavioral commitments to preserve themselves from deep seeded worries associated with identity.

Subject - Object Transitions

Humans evolve and become more complex by moving from subject to object elements of life that are cognitive, intrapersonal, and interpersonal.

Neuroscience

Neurobiology and Reflection

Reflection is the key for reconsolidation and changing our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. The tripod of reflection: Openness, observation, objectivity

Openness – Be receptive to whatever comes to our awareness and don’t cling to preconceived ideas about how things “should” be.

Observation – perceive the self even as we are experiencing an event. It offers us a powerful way to disengage from automatic behaviors and habitual responses; we can sense our role in these patterns and begin to find ways to alter them

Objectivity permits us to have a thought or feeling and not become swept away by it. Internal processes are temporary and not the totality of who we are.

Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett states that emotions are constructed by the mind in response to perceived similarities between

Polyvagal Theory

Dr. Stephen Porges has uncovered the centrality of the vagus nerve in our social health and well-being. His groundbreaking research in neuroscience allows us to sleep better, stay calmer, and regulate our emotions with ease. Download our free PDF guide.

Phelps Lab at Harvard

Emotions, thoughts, and decision making are based on memory of past events. By reconsolidating memories, we can change how we think about aspects of our life and change our behavior.

Reconsolidating deals with taking brain activity that is isolated in one region of the brain and moving it into the neo-cortex where it can be modified. By activating fear, emotion, memories, and the 5-senses we can change the emotion’s power over our memories and reprogram the reality around a memory and decision making.

Social Psychology - Identity

Symbolic Interaction and Identity Theory

IDENTITY CONTROL THEORY​

Affect Control Theory

Justice Frameworks

Interpersonal Communication

Negotiations

Difficult Conversations

Conflict Styles

Adaptive Edge coaching

Theory and practice

Adaptive Edge Coaching uses the latest scientific methods in learning, psychology, and neuroscience. Adaptive Edge’s methodology is broken down into six individual steps.

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