Susan Britton MCCICF Award-Winning Coach Educator, Neuroscience-Informed ICF/SHRM Coach Training, INSEAD Executive Masters in Change, Advocate for Evolutionary Shift from “Red Zone” to “Blue Zone” for Leaders, Coaches & Fellow Humans

The Power of Connection and Creation

Name: The Power of Connection and Creation
Uploaded: 2019-09-06T16:49:26+00:00
Duration: 1 min 38 s
Channel: Susan Britton MCC
Description: In this brief presentation, Susan Britton of the Academies for Coach Training explains the core of the Capacity Coach program using a simple two‑axis…

6 Sept 2019 · 2 min

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In this brief presentation, Susan Britton of the Academies for Coach Training explains the core of the Capacity Coach program using a simple two‑axis model. The horizontal axis represents the degree of connection – from separating to connecting with oneself and others. The vertical axis represents the mode of response – from reacting to creating. The intersection of these axes defines several mental states: the Red Zone (separating + reacting), the Blue Zone (connecting + creating), the Buddy Brain (over‑connecting without creation, leading to people‑pleasing), the Bias Brain (over‑creating without connection, leading to self‑centric certainty), and the Capacity Space where balanced connection and creation foster collective intelligence. The program teaches how to cultivate psychological safety, enable strategic connecting, and drive strategic creating, leveraging the research that two heads are better than one. Susan invites viewers to join the class to develop these capacities.

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Hey friends, Susan Britton with the Academies for Coach Training. I've had a couple of people ask me about the Capacity Coach program that we have, and I can explain it in two simple words: it's connection and it's creation. On the x-axis of connecting, we're either separating or we're connecting, first with ourselves and then with those around us. And on the y-axis of reacting versus creating, we are either reacting or we're creating. If we're reacting, if we're separating, we are in the red zone. If we are connecting, if we are creating, we are in the blue zone. If we overconnect with people but forget to create, we end up sort of creating this buddy brain of making sure that everybody's happy, and in the process, we lose sight of the bigger vision. And if we're in the creating mode but missing the connecting side of things, we're in the bias brain. There we think we're right, to hell with anybody else and what they care or think about. So either way, if we don't have the connection of both those connecting and creating axes, that's when we get into a capacity space. That's when we get the collective intelligence that's being researched that shows that two heads are indeed better than one, smarter than, than two brains coming together. So that is the process behind the capacity class, is learning how to get that connection happening, How to create the psychological safety so that it can happen, and then how to get the strategic connecting, excuse me, strategic creating happening. Hope to see you soon.