A neuroscience-based course that inspires immediate change and lasting impact

This powerful training uses our simple, easy-to-remember framework to shed light on what bias is and how it gets hard-wired into the brain. It also guides you to activate and strengthen the neural networks that enable you to transcend bias and heal internalized oppression.

About this course

Who is this course for?

  • Anyone who wants to understand how their brain works
  • Anyone looking for effective science-based tools to understand, deconstruct, and address biases without triggering shaming or blaming
  • Anyone seeking tools to heal internalized oppression and break free of self-limiting patterns and beliefs related to experiences of discrimination, marginalization, and stigma. 


What will you gain?

You will gain practical knowledge, tools, and techniques to deconstruct your own biases and more effectively build bridges and work through differences. 

Through our experiential exercises, you will learn to discern how the neural mechanisms that give rise to bias correspond to sensations in your body and to narratives in your mind. This will enable you to be mindful when biases and internalized oppression arise in your everyday professional and personal life. 

The course also guides you through techniques to activate neural pathways that enable you to work through biases in ways that heal internalized oppression. As a result, you will be able to more effectively engage with people whose perspectives and backgrounds may be very different from your own.

This course enables you to: 

  • Experience how the associative activation of neural pathways gives rise to bias.
  • Observe and sense how biases are are associated with specific sensations and patterns of brain activation.
  • Recognize “universal” biases (for example, loss aversion, in-group/out-group, and dominance) that are hard-wired into the human brain, which also serve as mechanisms for unconsciously internalizing oppression.
  • Discern when people use covering as a defense mechanism to protect themselves from bias and stigma 
  • Understand the effects of social conditioning, power dynamics, and intersectionality on career progression, and apply neuroscience and mindfulness to address and counter these effects.


Time Required:

It will take about 5-8 hours to complete the course, depending on how much time you invest in doing the exercises  and practicing the techniques.

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Course Outline

This course is built around our original NOTE framework to deconstruct unconscious bias.

  • NOTICE the subtle signs of bias arising by being aware of associations, valence, and brain activation.

  • OPEN minds using curiosity to explore how biases are hard-wired into our “autopilot,” often as social narratives and life scripts.

  • TUNE IN to compassionately hold space to process charged emotions and calm amygdala hijacks triggered by past experiences of stigma, stereotyping, and shame.

  • ENGAGE by activating neural pathways that enable us to embody our core values and respond with wisdom and compassion to create a more effective, genuinely inclusive, and collaborative path forward.

Course curriculum

Instructor

Author & Founder, Calm Clarity

Due Quach

(Pronounced ‘Zway Kwok’) An inspiring social entrepreneur and mental health advocate, Due is the author of Calm Clarity: How to Use Science to Rewire Your Brain for Greater Wisdom, Fulfillment and Joy, one of Fast Company’s best business books of 2018. Due founded Calm Clarity in 2013 by combining neuroscience and mindfulness to show people from all backgrounds how to rewire their brains to realize their full potential. Having started life in poverty as a refugee in inner-city Philadelphia, Due used neuroscience to heal the long-term effects of trauma, graduate from Harvard College and the Wharton School of Business, and build a successful international business career, before turning her focus to Calm Clarity.

About Calm Clarity

Who we are

Calm Clarity uses neuroscience to develop the leadership capacity of human beings to co-create a world where every person thrives. 

We synthesize science, mindfulness, and leadership development to provide a "user manual" for steering brain development that enables people to experience alignment and wholeness and harness their inner wisdom to improve their lives, their organizations, and their communities. 

Calm Clarity was conceived in 2013 to manifest a vision of a world free of violence, exploitation, marginalization, and disparities—a world where everyone can realize their full potential and become the highest expression of who they are. 

For over a decade, we have worked to close disparities in well-being and mental health by shedding light on how poverty, inequality, stigma, discrimination, trauma, and violence impact brain development and functioning, while also guiding people to rewire their brain to experience a state of alignment and wholeness that enables them to overcome these challenges.

Our training enables people to access their inner wisdom to more effectively navigate obstacles, actualize their potential, and positively impact their community. 

To date, our work has benefited more than ten thousand people. 

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