Quality of Mind: Realising Exponential Potential

This podcast series explores the 'before psychology' game-changing understanding of the human mind that can exponentially increase the performance, resourcefulness and well-being for any individual or organisation.

This episode is a conversation with Craig Wilmann, a business leader and content creator, who experienced a transformative shift in his understanding of the mind. He shares his journey and the benefits he now enjoys in all aspects of work and life. 

The discussion covers:

- The difference this understanding can make for Leadership

- How Craig first experience non duality during a burnout episode 

- What is it that we are pointing to?  How does it feel?  What is behind the personal mind?

- The simple yet profound nature of just being in life and sensing it, without the narrative of being a self.

- The inspiration, creativity and confidence to create and publish a short story every week for a year! 

-  The relevance for the workplace; contrived versus emergent leadership

- How this understanding helps any area of life and work, including running marathons dress as an elephant😁

 

Curious - want to know more?

• The highly recommended Meaningless Problems podcast that Craig has created. Subscribe now wherever you get your podcasts to help him hit his charitable goal. Note: Craig's writing pseudonym is Doe Wilmann 
• The Leaders Council  that Craig is Executive Director of. His Linkedin Profile
• Find out more about Quality of Mind   
• If you want to know more about 'becoming awake' check out our new 𝗗𝗜𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗧 𝗘𝗫𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗦𝗘𝗟𝗙 𝗜𝗡𝗤𝗨𝗜𝗥𝗬 programme, which is a simple guide you to experience it direct for you.  
• Subscribe to our Quality of Mind Youtube channel for a series of 2 min videos all about Quality of Mind
• Check out our other episodes, a curated list here
• Piers Thurston regularly writes about Quality of Mind on LinkedIn and has a large collection of articles and posts

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This podcast series explores the 'before psychology' game-changing understanding of the human mind that can exponentially increase the performance, resourcefulness and well-being for any individual or organisation.

This episode is a conversation with Helen Amery, a fellow coach of the understanding behind Quality of Mind, who poses an excellent exploration, the difference between being 'awake' and having an 'enlightened life'.  Do we need to be 'awake' to have an enlightened life?  What do those words even mean? Explore with us on this episode...

The discussion covers:

• What do we mean by those words?  A simple description
• If we have a recognition of being 'awake' does that lead to an enlightened life?
• What makes it hard to have an enlightened life without a recognition of 'our true nature'
• Two more words - The difference between 'inquiry' and 'reflection'
• How different coaching approaches start from different places; what truly makes the difference
• Is this relevant for the workplace? What does it offer?
• How psychological safety is an innocent reverse engineering due to a misunderstanding
• Some of the indicators that you might be on the path to either....

Curious - want to know more?

• During the show we mentioned Helen’s post that prompted this recording. Here’s that original post
• To find out about Helen’s work go to her main website where you can find out about her Wild Fig Community, private sessions and free resources Awakening and Enlightenment | Coach and Guide (wildfigsolutions.co.uk)
• And for everything relating to The Complete Book of Awakening, go to its publishing website, Thoughtful Raven. There you’ll find a link through to the courses and community for the book. Thoughtful Raven – The home of practical spirituality books.
• Listen to Helen on her journey back in 2019 as she starts to have realisations about the principles behind Quality of Mind in this special behind the scenes 3 part mini series
• Find out more about Quality of Mind   
• If you want to know more about 'becoming awake' check out our new 𝗗𝗜𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗧 𝗘𝗫𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗦𝗘𝗟𝗙 𝗜𝗡𝗤𝗨𝗜𝗥𝗬 programme, which is a simple guide you to experience it direct for you.  
• Subscribe to our Quality of Mind Youtube channel for a series of 2 min videos all about Quality of Mind
• Check out our other episodes, a curated list here
• Piers Thurston regularly writes about Quality of Mind on LinkedIn and has a large collection of articles and posts

This podcast series explores the 'before psychology' game-changing understanding of the human mind that can exponentially increase the performance, resourcefulness and well-being for any individual or organisation.

This episode is a conversation with Quality of Mind colleague Kate Adey. Kate has over 20 years experience in the corporate world - as a consultant and coach. 

Have you ever noticed that spark in life has dulled, or the feeling of joy for no reason has evaporated?  Are you surviving rather than thriving? And if thriving, is it achieved by striving and grind? Many of us are innocently and invisibly 'comfortably numb'.

Sound like you?..Listen on...

The episodes covers:

• How as we grow up gradually and subtly the freedom, ease, and joy can disappear from life, but we see it 'just how life is'
• The indicators that you might be more 'comfortably numb' than you realised
• How this is exaggerated in most organisations and workplaces
• Is there an alternative?  What can we do about that?
• How do we see the extraordinary in the ordinary
• Maybe we have just been looking in the wrong place....

Please leave any feedback or comments on the podcast, and if you want to ask a question please do so here https://sayhi.chat/QoM - we'd love to hear from you!!

Curious - want to know more?

• You can find out more about Kate and her website 
• Find out more about Quality of Mind 
• Subscribe to our Quality of Mind Youtube channel for a series of 2 min videos all about Quality of Mind
• Check out our other episodes, a curated list here
• Piers Thurston regularly writes about Quality of Mind on LinkedIn and has a large collection of articles and posts

This podcast series explores a game-changing understanding of the human mind that operates ''before psychology'' - that can exponentially increase the performance, resourcefulness and well-being for any individual or organisation.

This episode is taken from the  WTF What The Future?! Podcast series. Where Piers was asked to have a real time coaching conversation with three business leaders Ian Parry, Helen Gillett and Andy Caulton, who were keen to learn more about Quality of Mind

 

In this episode we discuss:

• The nature and benefits of the Quality of Mind approach
• A mini real time direct self inquiry experiment on 'who we are' 
• We've never experienced anything outside of the mind - so what?
• What is the nature of reality?  What has that got to with more leadership potential
• It sounds too good to be true, so ''how do I.....''
• What is the flow state made of? The aperture 
• How do you describe Quality of Mind, what it is and what is isn't. 
• How do you sell and promote something that appears so different; are people sceptical? 

Curious - want to know more?

• The WTF podcast What The Future?!   and the Future Leaders website 
• Find out more about Quality of Mind 
• Subscribe to our Quality of Mind Youtube channel for a series of 2 min videos all about Quality of Mind
• Check out our other episodes, a curated list here
• Piers Thurston regularly writes about Quality of Mind on LinkedIn and has a large collection of articles and posts

From the QUALITY OF MIND Podcast

Part of our new 'Not Even 5 Mins Series' 

 

Ep7: 'Do We Really Have Free Will? 

A excerpt from the episode  ''Can We Really Do Change? A Conversation about Free Will and Being the Doer''  With regular contributor Katrijn Van Oudheudsen.

Link to the full episode 

Please leave any feedback or comments on the podcast, and if you want to ask a question please do so here https://sayhi.chat/QoM - we'd love to hear from you!!

 

Curious - want to know more?

• Check out our other podcast episodes; a curated list here
• Watch past clients talk about the power of Quality of Mind here
• For a more in depth looking into the nondual understanding behind Quality of Mind  listen here  or here
• Find out more about the relevance of Quality of Mind  
• Subscribe to our Quality of Mind Youtube channel for a series of 2 min videos all about Quality of Mind
• Piers Thurston regularly writes about Quality of Mind on LinkedIn and has a large collection of posts

 

This podcast series explores a game-changing understanding of the human mind that operates ''before psychology'' - that can exponentially increase the performance, resourcefulness and well-being for any individual or organisation.

Piers chats with the authors of a new wonderfully helpful book on the subject of exploring Non Duality (which forms the foundation of Quality of Mind). Helen Amery the co-author, has been a regular on the show  and she is joined by Sara Priestley to discuss how they developed 'The Complete Book of Awakening'.

In this episode we discuss:

• How the book – The Complete Book of Awakening - came about
• Why the book is called “Complete”
• The definition of awakening
• Who the book is for  -Why this isn’t a book to ‘read for gist’
• Why the book removes all spiritual dogma and paradox
• Why direct inquiry and logic are a powerful combination
• The three levels of experience and putting them in their right order
• Why our conceptual labels don’t reflect reality
• Why resistance arises during an awakening inquiry and why that’s OK
• Why this inquiry is your own – you have to see it for yourself – and why the outcome isn’t a life floating in bliss as many imagine it to be
• Why goals of a nicer life must be put secondary to seeing your essential nature
• How do you know if you’ve recognsied your essential nature – awakened?
• Why awakening results in the behaviour changes that we usually ‘try’ to make happen in business

Curious - want to know more?

• Go to the Thoughtful Raven website for free resources that go with the book, purchasing links for the book and journal, and links to courses and a community, as well as to get in touch with Helen and Sara.

  Thoughtful Raven – The home of practical spirituality books

  You can buy the book on Amazon and also The Complete Book of Awakening – Exploration Journal
• Check out our other Quality of Mind podcast episodes, a curated list here
• Helens initial appearance on the Quality of Mind podcast, and her experience of being coached in this understanding, and more recently talking about 'Does the Mind really work Inside Out'
• Find out more about Quality of Mind 
• Subscribe to our Quality of Mind Youtube channel for a series of 2 min videos all about Quality of Mind
• Check out our other episodes, a curated list here
• Piers Thurston regularly writes about Quality of Mind on LinkedIn and has a large collection of articles and posts

This podcast series explores a game-changing understanding of the human mind that operates ''before psychology'' - that can exponentially increase the performance, resourcefulness and well-being for any individual or organisation.

 

Piers talks to fellow Coach, Stephen Lock, who through his own leadership journey realised organisations are still rooted in the industrial revolution when it comes to how they manage and control themselves. They discuss the way forward....😊

 

In this episode we discuss:

• The roots of our current prevailing corporate culture and leadership style 
•  How ideas like non-hierarchical organizations, or different ways of having conversations have emerged, but missing the true understanding and relevance of human consciousness
• How our conditioning and culture has made some areas seem a no go - and then we wake up
• What do we fear losing by exploring something different? 
• An organisational example of where it does work, to start from a different foundation
• Do we need to reverse engineer or can we go straight there? 

Curious - want to know more?

• You can find out more about Stephen and his work here  or website here
• Find out more about Quality of Mind 
• Subscribe to our Quality of Mind Youtube channel for a series of 2 min videos all about Quality of Mind
• Check out our other episodes, a curated list here
• Piers Thurston regularly writes about Quality of Mind on LinkedIn and has a large collection of articles and posts

This podcast series explores a game-changing understanding of the human mind that operates ''before psychology'' - that can exponentially increase the performance, resourcefulness and well-being for any individual or organisation.

In this episode Piers chats with Clare Dimond a wonderful return guest to the show, and this time the topic is about how the personal mind creates a sense of seeking and wanting, and how we can tune into a 'purer' sense of evolving and creating. Clare is a skilled teacher of the understanding behind Quality of Mind, and a prolific and gifted author. 

In this episode we discuss:

• What is behind all wants and desires
• The red herring of the rewards in life, our peak moments - fuelling the confusion. 
• The purpose of resistance - not trying to avoid it and how it is our inner conditioning made external - 
• Feel and sensing not thinking about our feelings and emotions
• Shifting out of identification and inevitable resistance, and how that leads to curiousity 
• Deeper knowing and sensing, obviousness 
• Two types of sensitivity: our fluid raw primal 'reality immersion' and our conceptual separated conditioned based sensitivity
• The intelligence in how to run the body mind- the sensing and then our innocent identification to that
• The natural revealing a way of supporting a body mind to its optimum 

Curious - want to know more?

• You can find out more about Clare and her work here
• Another episode with Clare What has this got to with how we communicate, lead and turn up at work? 
• Find out more about Quality of Mind 
• Subscribe to our Quality of Mind Youtube channel for a series of 2 min videos all about Quality of Mind
• Check out our other episodes, a curated list here
• Piers Thurston regularly writes about Quality of Mind on LinkedIn and has a large collection of articles and posts

This podcast series explores a game-changing understanding of the human mind, before psychology, that can exponentially increase the performance, resourcefulness and well-being for any individual or organisation.

In this episode Piers chats with insightful business leader and global commentator - Chris Nurko. Chris has decades of global business leadership experience. He is a true thought leader in innovation, branding and creative collaboration. This is a more 'downstream' and less 'technical' conversation than some of our episodes but of course still points to what is behind everything - the mind.  Chris is someone with an intuitively high Quality of Mind in the game of life, so enjoy the listening to how success gets created in the business world when you recognise the most important variable

This episodes discusses:

• Starting with aperture - how organisational culture as an operating system can contract or expand possibility 
• Breakthrough brands and how they alter the consciousness of society  
• Opening your mind to harnessing the powers of others for mutual goals, exponentially accelerates the potential impact 
• Modern business don't give the space for realization to happen, which is where mindsets dissolve new perspectives come along
• How titles, resumes, achievements are all ego defences and crutches - the myth of brand 'me'
• The growing importance of seeing how the role of mind impacts everything 

Curious - want to know more?

• You can find out more about Chris on LinkedIn here 
• Find out more about Quality of Mind 
• Subscribe to our Quality of Mind Youtube channel for a series of 2 min videos all about Quality of Mind 
• Some 2 minute 'tasters' of Quality of Mind 
• Check out our other podcast episodes, curated into sections
• Piers regularly writes about Quality of Mind on Linkedin and has a large collection of articles and posts
• To make a comment or ask a question just voice here 

This podcast series explores a game-changing understanding of the human mind, before psychology, that can exponentially increase the performance, resourcefulness and well-being for any individual or organisation.

In this episode Piers chats with Janick Loewe, Janick is a coach who works with performers and business creators to unlock their full potential. He is a ex Ballroom dancer and won the Professional World Championships in 2014. We explore the topic of human potential and how it works, whether that be on the dance floor or the board room.

This episodes discusses:

• Are we hunting for potential in the wrong place
• Dancing with what we are our psychology, and what is before psychology
• Be the samba!
• How potential is very often suffocated by our psychology, our thoughts.
• Where to dig, tracing it back to 'i'
• The downside of reverse engineering and thinking our way back into flow; 
• Reaching potential is subtractive not additive

Curious - want to know more?

• You can find out more about Janick and his work here and on Linkedin here
• Find out more about Quality of Mind 
• Subscribe to our Quality of Mind Youtube channel for a series of 2 min videos all about Quality of Mind 
• Some 2 minute 'tasters' of Quality of Mind 
• Check out our other podcast episodes, curated into sections
• Piers regularly writes about Quality of Mind on Linkedin and has a large collection of articles and posts
• To make a comment or ask a question just voice here