HeartMath® heart coherence training
Heart coherence training for teams: from stress to flow
Work is increasingly becoming elite sport
As a professional, you deal with a constant stream of incoming demands every day: personal messages, email, text messages, post, phone calls and more. And that is not even the whole picture: planning, budgets, back-to-back meetings, policy documents, business development, and much more.
In short: work is increasingly becoming elite sport. That is a fantastic challenge, but it requires the right top-level condition to keep meeting those demands effectively.
The ‘HeartMath® Peak Performance’ training can be the answer: a way to bring your team’s vitality and happiness to a higher level, and with it their performance and personal stress regulation.
Scientifically proven effects
This program was developed by cardiologists, neurocardiologists and neurologists at the HeartMath Institute in the United States, after more than 20 years of rigorous scientific research.
The scientifically proven physical effects include:
Direct effect visible
through biofeedback
The core of the training consists of a set of techniques whose physical impact is fed back in real time through biofeedback software on your phone. A Bluetooth ear sensor translates the body’s signals onto the screen, so participants see the effect of their practice immediately and can adjust until they create the result they want.
This also makes the return on the program measurable and transparent, which adds to the enjoyment of putting it into practice.
The heart coherence training techniques
We function at our best when the heart operates in a state of ‘coherence’: a balance between the sympathetic nervous system (the ‘accelerator’) and the parasympathetic nervous system (the ‘brake’).
On the electrocardiogram on your phone, you see a smooth, even, sine-like heart rhythm. Breathing, heart rate and blood pressure begin to operate ‘in phase’, the body rejuvenates and regenerates and you are ready to deliver peak performance, both physically and mentally.
The training teaches the techniques to generate this heart coherence as a route to ‘Peak Performance’. The techniques are simple and immediately applicable, helping participants to:
- neutralize negative emotions, stopping the production of harmful stress hormones
- transform negative energy into positive energy
- prevent the ‘energy leaks’ that drain you during the day
- generate creative solutions and build momentum in projects and other work that needs attention
- generate energy ‘on demand’ by activating positive emotions
- break through limiting patterns
- listen effectively
References
Organizations such as Unilever, Hewlett Packard, BP, PwC, EY, Shell, the Dutch National Police, Rabobank, Accenture, VolkerWessels Telecom, Philips, Van Lanschot Bankiers, NS, Delta Lloyd, Achmea, PSV, AZ and many others have already been trained in applying the HeartMath® techniques.
In the words of a senior executive at Unilever :
‘The HeartMath Resilience Advantage program is our preferred vitality and peak performance program, because it is the only program in the market so far that has the Science, the Tools, The Software, The Data and the Results. Our Unilever Research department has investigated the program thoroughly before we recommended it to our Board and because they found the same results as the program promised in advance it was advised to the Board of Unilever.’
Practical results
of the program
More energy and increased vitality
A greater sense of happiness
Improved performance capacity
Improved emotional fitness
Improved personal stress regulation
The heart coherence training program
2 half-day sessions, two weeks apart
In this online training, every participant works with the Inner Balance® trainer app and an infrared Bluetooth ear sensor. This makes the results of practicing the techniques directly visible on the phone through biofeedback. You literally watch the heart rhythm change on the screen.
Part 1
- The scientific results of this program, with proven case examples from organizational practice
- The 4 forms of resilience
- Theoretical background: the autonomic nervous system, the hormonal system, blood pressure, heart rate, heart rate variability (heart rhythm), the 3 brains, coherence
- Workload, tension, stress regulation and performance
- The effect of negative and positive emotions on heart rhythm: the most important health indicator for human beings
- Baseline measurement in the Inner Balance® app
- Scientifically proven ‘Heartmath’ techniques
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- Heart Focused Breathing®: neutralize stress and immediately stop energy leaks and negative emotion
- Quick Coherence®: to get into ‘flow’
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Part 2
- Terugblik
- The emotional landscape
- Attitude Reset®: strengthen desired qualities at the moment you need them and positively change limiting patterns.
- Heart lock-in®: a technique for building a strong heart condition as the foundation for peak performance at work
- The heart-brain connection and the effect of stress on the quality of thinking
- Freeze-Frame®: a problem-solving technique
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