The Human Intuition System
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AGENDA
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How do YOU know?
Overview
Contextual Intuition
Intuition and the Five Contexts
Mirror Neurons and the Vagus
Nerve
6) Intuition and the Right
Hemisphere
7) Completion
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INTUITION IS…..
Anything you know without
conscious processing,
thought,
or observation
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How do YOU know?
1.Think of one (only one for now) place you
feel/receive/notice your intuition
2.Write your name on a post-it
3.Stick the post-it on the corresponding part of your body
4.Find someone who has a post-it in the same area (if you
can -- if not, find anyone)
5.Share how you get your intuition from this place
6.After you’ve both shared, place your post-its on body chart
in the appropriate spot
7.Repeat (another place you ALSO feel/receive/notice your
intuition and another partner for sharing)
Collective
Consciousness
Mirror
Neurons
Right
Hemisphere
Vagus Nerve
Heart / Gut
Contextual
Intuition
Other
Senses
Heart’s
Resonant Field
THE INTUITION SYSTEM
•Mirror Neurons
•Vagus Nerve
•Right Hemisphere of the brain – connects to
vagus nerve / mirror neurons for empathy
•LH of the brain – works with information coming
through the RH
•PFC and hippocampus – data collected by
development of expertise in a specific area
•Sensory information
•Heart’s resonant field
•The collective consciousness
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THE INTUITION SYSTEM
CONTEXTUAL =
I just know
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CONTEXTUAL INTUITION
Part One—Expertise
Pick an area you know a lot about and write
down as much as possible in 5 minutes
1.What are all the experiences you have had that
contributed to your expertise?
2.What mistakes have you made and corrected?
3.Successes and failures?
4.Different places, times and people who played a role?
Get a partner and share:
• What do you “just know” in this area?
• What is in your unconscious competence?
CONTEXTUAL INTUITION
Part Two—Coaching
Write down as much as possible in 5 minutes
1.What are all the experiences you have had that contribute
to your contextual coaching intuition?
2.What mistakes have you made and corrected?
3.Successes and failures?
4.Different places, times and people who have played a
role?
Same partner, take turns sharing—as a coach:
• What do you really trust in this area of intuition?
• Where could you trust your contextual intuition more?
COACHING
EXPERIENCE
SO WHAT?
So what?
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THE INTUITION SYSTEM
MIRROR NEURONS =
I feel something in my body
that is happening in your
body
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MIRROR NEURONS
•Mirror neurons fire when we do an
action or when we observe or
imagine the action
•Help us learn by observing and
imitating others
•Help us feel and understand others
– create connection
•If we don’t hold another as part of
our group, mirror neurons for
empathy don’t fire
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THE INTUITION SYSTEM
VAGUS NERVE =
I feel something in my body
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Vagus Nerve
• Vagus = wandering.
• Connected to almost every organ
in our body.
• Most information (80-90%) flows
to the brain.
• Controls voice, inner ear, small
muscles of face.
• Directly connected to our ability to
self-regulate and be emotionally
intelligent.
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THE INTUITION SYSTEM
ADDITIONAL SENSES =
I smell, I hear
COLLECTIVE
CONSCIOUSNESS and
HEART’S RESONANT FIELD =
Something comes to me that I
couldn’t possibly know
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INTUITION GAME
•Person A tells a NEUTRAL fact about someone they know
(not in the room).
•Person B checks in with their own body response.
•Person B writes down 2-3 words or images that come to
them about how A feels about the person they are thinking
of. DO NOT CENSOR YOURSELF.
•Person B tells A words, asks
• What’s true?
• What’s helpful?
So what?
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THE INTUITION SYSTEM
RIGHT
HEMISPHERE =
Pictures and
Metaphor
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Metaphor & Integration
• Visual circuits create “mental
maps”
• Understand more quickly and
completely
• Activate RH understanding,
subtle aspects of a situation
• Connects the more visual RH to
the symbolic language of the LH
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MANDALAS
•Get a partner
•Coachee tells coach a five to seven minute story about
something that is troubling them. Coach may ask clarifying
questions (but does not coach at this point).
•Coach draws what they are inspired to draw in the mandala
circle. No censoring or editing. Put aside when done.
•Switch and repeat.
•AFTER both have told stories and each coach has done a
drawing, take ten minutes each to interpret the drawing.
Coach hold an open space and be curious. Client’s job is to
make meaning of what coach drew.
SO WHAT?
So what?
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COMPLETION
• What CONTEXTUAL
intuition did you build
today?
• What does your body
know about what you
learned today?
• What images/metaphors
do you have for the day?
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ANN BETZ
www.beaboveleadership.com
ann@beaboveleadership.com
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