Summary:
In a world overflowing with choices, psychologists, licensed mental health professionals, medical personnel, and ministry leaders guide others in making decisions every day, yet few ever learn the mechanics of decision-making. The brain is the platform from which consciousness emerges, but people’s consciousness reacts by directing the brain to encode life experiences, thereby shaping and changing the brain, which determines the real-time network activation that impacts clients’ day-to-day decision-making. In this highly practical workshop, participants will identify distinct mental abilities (Reason, Conscience, Will, Thoughts, Feelings), correlate these abilities with distinct brain networks, and formulate a decision-making protocol that consistently yields healthy outcomes that promote flourishing. This model is grounded in a Judeo-Christian worldview, clinical psychiatry, and cutting-edge neuroscience, and will explore the conflict between fear-based and love-based decision-making, how clients’ internalizations of life experiences get encoded in the brain, and how this becomes a predictive model that filters new life experiences. Participants will learn how to guide willing Christian clients and patients toward every healthier, reality-based decision-making, founded upon truth and love, that rewires the brain so that decisions become pathways to resilient innovation.
Learning Objectives:
Examine the relationship between mental faculties (Reason, Conscience, Will, Thoughts, and Feelings), correlating these with brain networks.
Identify primary motivational drives that direct decision making and differentiate healthy from unhealthy factors.
Outline how the brain encodes life experiences and identify a potential structural brain pathway that explains why cognitive awareness alone does not result in positive choices or healthy change.
Formulate an evidence-based plan for healthy decision-making.