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BE MORE ADVENTUROUS...
Fear holds us back. Stress weighs us down. Doubt undermines confidence. Yet a sense of adventure can be a natural antidote to overwhelm, or malaise.
The Excitement Switch® framework provides practical strategies for resilience in everyday work and play. Drawing on insights from adventurers and extreme sports practitioners who use purposeful risk and challenge to:
✔ Manage fear
✔ Navigate trauma
✔ Make high pressure decisions
Informed by cutting edge neuroscience and psychology research and practice.
Activate Adventure Mode - a state of mind that thrives in uncertainty, and aspires to loftier goals.
Applicable to corporate teams striving to stay ahead of the curve, occupational health and wellbeing initiatives in the workplace, and anyone keen to improve mental fitness.
At the heart of The Excitement Switch® framework is the universal truth that life challenges us, and we can respond positively to this as opportunity to shine.
You don't need to BASE jump or climb a mountain to benefit from the mindset that those individuals use to thrive under pressure.
Whether you are navigating change, making bold leadership decisions, or experiencing mental fatigue, the same principles apply.
People burn out or freeze under the spotlight not because they lack skill or effort - it's down to being chronically stuck in a reactive mode as stress levels build.
Activating Adventure Mode puts you in a state of mind and body that is more adaptable, in control, and able to use the stress-response to productive ends.
Through years of immersing in the world of adventurers and extreme sports practitioners, and working with first responders and vulnerable populations, The Excitement Switch® was developed as a practical, science-based method for teaching people how to:
- recognise the internal signs of freeze or overwhelm
- regulate response to stress through mindset and breath
- re-engage higher 'executive' control to act decisively and recover better
Simple tools are grounded in psychology, neuroscience and lived experience.
By being more adventurous day-to-day we can achieve better work-life balance, and live more purposefully - captaining our ship to rewarding shores.
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