Rewire Your Brain: How to Successfully Break Your Habits

Rewire Your Brain: How to Successfully Break Your Habits


Neuroscience has shed new light on many aspects of the human’s brain that we can use in our favor in order to improve our learning and adaptation capabilities, crucial in times of continuous change. Change can be hard. The usual ways of making changes involve only motivation and willpower. But these are limited resources that rather quickly exhaust themselves. However, you can work with instead of against your mind’s natural tendencies.

Target Group 

WU staff who want to learn what it takes to overcome futile patterns by rewiring their brains and successfully create and stick to those habits they seek to pursue.

Workshop Goals

In this workshop you learn how to create new habits by creating new neural pathways that actually rewire your brain. Once formed in this way, habits (even healthy habits) are easier to keep and harder to break.

Workshop Content

• Learning how to train your automatic brain to ignore distractions, withstand temptations, and interrupt reflexive, self-sabotaging responses.
• Developing a road–map to overcoming the most common self-destructive habits.
• Developing self-leadership skills related with focus and emotional regulation.
• Learning how to overcome your inner barriers.

Location, Date and Time

Thursday, 9 February 2017, 9.00 am - 5.00 pm
Friday, 10 February 2017, 9.00 am - 5.00 pm

All registered participants will be informed of the location by email one week before the event.

Fees and Registration

This workshop is open to a limited number of participants. The registration deadline is 26 January 2017.

Please note that you should notify us before the registration deadline if you are unable to attend the workshop. Otherwise the full fee will be charged.
Please let the Personnel Development and Planning Office know if you will not be attending. There are often waiting lists for the workshops, and this will give one of your colleagues the chance to attend. In addition, if we can fill the vacancy with someone from the waiting list, no cancellation charges will apply for you.

To sign up for this workshop, please click "Register" at the bottom of this page. For any further information please contact Elke Rittersbacher (elke.rittersbacher@wu.ac.at, DW 4448).

The course fee is €40.

Trainer

Maryam Bigdeli, BA, MC, MBA   Studied Communication and Psychology, Masters in Counseling and Systemic Coaching, Masters in Business Administration Co-founder and Managing Director of MEC&T Communication Training since 1998 (www.mec-t.at) 16 years of experience as Corporate Consultant, Trainer & Coach for Soft Skills, Business Communication Training & Intercultural Management