Changing the Brain
We’re all exposed to record levels of stress, uncertainty, exhaustion, and burnout. At the same time, AI is complicating our lives and work, disrupting our status quo, and demanding more effort, not less.
The answer is not to pedal even faster, do more, or push old code farther into mental and emotional overload, stress, and failure. We need to change the operating system. We need to learn to train our own neural networks, just as AI engineers train artificial ones.
Fortunately, advances in neuroscience and AI research are giving us a greater understanding of how the brain works—and practical ways to intentionally change it. We can learn to recognize our triggers and automatic responses, and use established neural practices to develop and reinforce new patterns.
Education Membership
Turning this knowledge into lasting change requires more than conventional training can provide. It calls for a deeper understanding of the brain, a systematic training curriculum, procedural practices, effective applications, and resources that support and reinforce intentional neural change.
Equally important are access to emerging research and insights, and opportunities to exchange ideas and experiences with a professional community of peers, experts, and collaborators working on similar challenges—for themselves, their organizations, and their coaching and consulting clients.
The IOSM Network provides all of these resources through Education Membership.
Comprehensive Year-Round Learning
Education Membership unlocks the network’s entire portfolio of formal learning programs, each offering a unique way to learn, practice, and apply neural skills.
Learning Labs
Are expert, member-led sessions where we solve urgent challenges, learn and practice new methods, and explore the business of neural coaching and consulting.
Neural Skills Workshops
Are a deep dive into specific mental, emotional, and behavioral capabilities, combining current neuroscience with hands-on neural practice.
21-Day Neural Challenges
Embed neural training into our lives and work through daily microlessons and micropractices that develop new mindsets, habits, and behaviors.
On-Demand Learning
Provides self-paced access to labs, workshops, challenges, and additional learning programs and resources.
Members have unlimited access—can participate in live programs or learn on demand—and automatically unlock new programs as they are introduced.
"If for every dollar we invest in developing artificial intelligence, we invest another dollar and another minute in developing our minds, we’ll be fine. Because just as AI is nowhere near its full potential, neither is the human mind."
Yuval Noah Harari, Professor of History at Hebrew University and Author of Sapiens
IOSM Learning Labs
Solution, Practice, and Business Labs are interactive community learning that engages members to explore, exchange practical insights, and problem-solve with experienced colleagues and experts.
Solution Labs
Join us to tackle urgent challenges with new science and great ideas. Each lab focuses on a consequential human or workplace problem, and surfaces member expertise and creativity to find new solutions.
NEW LABS IN 2027 — NEURAL SKILLS FOR AI TRANSFORMATION
Practice Labs
Learn mindfulness, breathwork, somatics, and other high-impact neural practices. Guided by certified instructors, each lab offers hands-on experience with practices that shape our brains and behaviors.
NEW LABS IN 2027 — MICRO MINDFULNESS, BREATHWORK, AND SOMATICS
Business Labs
B-Labs offer strategies and skills to help our teaching, coaching, and consulting members grow their practices. Topics range from client development to designing high-value, science-based programs.
NEW LABS IN 2027 — AI AND NEURO-ENABLED COACHING AND CONSULTING
Neural Wellbeing 2027
Decades of employee wellness, perks, and recognition programs haven’t moved the needle on stress, toxicity, disengagement, or burnout. But neural methods go where no conventional program can—to literally retrain the neural networks that result in healthier, happier and higher-performing humans.
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Resolve Stress, Anxiety, and Burnout
Acute and chronic stress, anxiety, and burnout undermine our physical health, mental capabilities, and performance. In this workshop, we’ll practice neural techniques to regulate sudden stress, interrupt pervasive worry, and recover from exhaustion and burnout through regulatory, somatic, and interoceptive practices.
Friday, February 19, 2027 — 12:00 PM ET
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Reclaim Focus and Attention Control
Attention control is a critical leadership and performance capability in any field. In this workshop, we’ll practice focused attention, open monitoring, and flexible attention techniques to manage distractions, direct attention intentionally, and sustain concentration in demanding situations.
Friday, March 19, 2027 — 12:00 PM ET
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Navigate Change and Uncertainty
Relentless change and uncertainty trigger fear, resistance, and automatic reactions that hurt, distract, and undermine our performance. In this workshop, we’ll practice neural techniques for acceptance, reframing, and visualization to regulate these reactions, shift perspective, and respond with greater clarity and intention.
Friday, April 23, 2027 — 12:00 PM ET
Education Members Only
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Ignite Purpose, Motivation, and Engagement
Purpose and intrinsic motivation drive engagement, persistence, and performance. In this workshop, we’ll use insight, reframing, and visualization practices to examine what drives our behavior, connect actions with personal values, and strengthen motivation and meaningful engagement in work and life.
Friday, May 21, 2027 — 12:00 PM ET
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Build Mental Strength and Resilience
Mental strength sustains engagement and performance under pressure; resilience helps us recover from setbacks and adversity. In this workshop, we’ll practice embodied awareness, self-compassion, and recovery techniques to strengthen emotional regulation, regain perspective, and maintain effectiveness through difficult circumstances.
Friday, June 25, 2027 — 12:00 PM ET
Neural Leadership 2027
Join us for a series of deep dives into the neural foundations of effective leadership—applying science and procedural learning to develop cognitive flexibility, apply ethical human judgment to AI, activate emotional intelligence, create trust, psychological safety and more
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Train Cognitive Agility and Adaptability
Ingrained mental patterns, biases, and beliefs limit our ability to think flexibly and adapt to changing circumstances. In this workshop, we’ll build awareness, practice perspective-taking, reframe, and use visualization to challenge assumptions, shift mental frameworks, identify alternatives, and respond more effectively to emerging challenges.
Friday, July 23, 2027 — 12:00 PM ET
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Apply Ethical Human Judgment to AI
AI-assisted decisions demand independent thinking, sound judgment, and ethical responsibility. In this workshop, we’ll examine real-world dilemmas and practice neural techniques to recognize bias, evaluate AI recommendations, interrupt automatic reactions, and make deliberate, well-reasoned decisions under pressure.
Friday, August 27, 2027 — 12:00 PM ET
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Activate Emotional Intelligence
Understanding what emotional intelligence is and how it works is not the same as being emotionally intelligent. In this workshop, we’ll use neural practices to embody and operationalize self-awareness, self-regulation, empathy, and compassion—and translate these capabilities into more effective leadership, communication, and relationships.
Friday, September 24, 2027 — 12:00 PM ET
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Create Trust and Psychological Safety
Trust and psychological safety are foundational to high-performing organizations, enabling candor, collaboration, innovation, and collective learning. In this workshop, we’ll practice neural techniques for perspective-taking, attunement, and active listening to reduce social threat, strengthen interpersonal trust, and create a climate of openness and cooperation.
Friday, October 22, 2027 — 12:00 PM ET
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Build High-Performing Teams
High-performing teams turn individual capabilities into collective performance. In this workshop, we’ll apply neural practices and collaborative exercises to strengthen shared purpose, collective attention, coordinated effort, and mutual accountability—reinforcing the group behaviors that drive effective teamwork and organizational results.
Friday, November 19, 2027 — 12:00 PM ET
21-Day Neural Challenges
Neural Challenges are a uniquely effective method for shifting mindsets, habits, and behaviors. Each program introduces sequential daily microlessons, guided micropractices and triggers to systematically train important mental and emotional skills.
Interrupt Autopilot and Cultivate Awareness
We spend much of our lives on autopilot, acting from habit and nonconscious mental models rather than conscious choice. In this Challenge, we learn to recognize the internal cues that signal automatic or emotional reactions, bring conscious awareness back online, observe unconscious patterns, and regain the ability to choose what happens next.
Starts Monday, February 1, 2027 — 12:00 PM ET
Create a Positive and Growth Mindset
Setbacks, uncertainty, and failure trigger self-doubt, fear, perfectionism, and limiting stories about what we can do. In this Challenge, we bring those underlying narratives into awareness, challenge and reframe them, strengthen constructive self-talk, and build greater confidence, emotional flexibility, and resilience.
Starts Monday, March 1, 2027 — 12:00 PM ET
Scale Personal Impact and Productivity
Constant alerts, shifting priorities, and nonstop demands fracture our attention and consume our mental energy. In this Challenge, we identify where attention and energy are being lost, reduce distraction and unnecessary cognitive switching, establish clearer priorities, and build the concentration needed to accomplish more of what matters.
Starts Monday, April 5, 2027 — 12:00 PM ET
Operate in Deep Engagement and Flow
Flow is a powerful state of peak engagement in which attention becomes fully absorbed, distractions recede, and we perform at the edge of our capabilities. In this Challenge, we practice creating the conditions that lead to flow—including deeply focused attention, clear goals and feedback, and the critical balance between challenge and skill.
Starts Monday, May 3, 2027 — 12:00 PM ET
Unlock Creativity and Innovation
Habitual thinking and familiar assumptions keep us returning to familiar solutions. In this Challenge, we practice interrupting automatic patterns of thought, strengthening divergent thinking, shifting perspectives, creating space for creative association and insight, and turning new possibilities into ideas that are both novel and useful.
Starts Monday, June 7, 2027 — 12:00 PM ET
Education Members Only
Reprogram Limiting Beliefs
Old and often inaccurate beliefs and unconscious biases shape what we perceive, the choices we make, and what we believe is possible—without our awareness. In this Challenge, we identify these patterns, challenge automatic interpretations and choices, disrupt harmful assumptions, and strengthen mental frameworks grounded in present reality, chosen values, and greater possibility.
Starts Tuesday, July 6, 2027 — 12:00 PM ET
Education Members Only
Change Habits and Behaviors
The brain is built to automate repeated behaviors and favor what is familiar, which is why unwanted behaviors can persist even when they’ve become painful and unwelcome. In this Challenge, we identify and interrupt our cue-behavior-reward loops, reduce the payoff of old behaviors, replace them with meaningful alternatives, and embed new habits through repetition.
Starts Monday, August 2, 2027 — 12:00 PM ET
Develop Interpersonal Effectiveness
Unregulated emotions can narrow our focus and distort feedback; poor interpersonal sensitivity can create conflict and break trust. In this Challenge, we strengthen our ability to understand ourselves, read and understand others, regulate our responses under pressure, communicate skillfully, and navigate difficult interactions more effectively.
Starts Tuesday, September 7, 2027 — 12:00 PM ET
Education Members Only
Increase Influence to Mobilize Others
Influence determines whether people listen to our ideas, engage with them, and ultimately act. In this Challenge, we strengthen the behaviors that build credibility, trust, empathy, and reliability—expanding our ability to influence without positional authority and mobilize people around ideas and action.
Starts Monday, October 4, 2027 — 12:00 PM ET
Education Members Only
Cultivate Gratitude and Appreciation
Our attention naturally gravitates toward problems, threats, unfinished work, and what is missing, while much of what supports us goes unnoticed. In this Challenge, we deliberately counterbalance that tendency—training ourselves to notice, experience, and express what we value, so that appreciation becomes an active practice rather than an occasional feeling.
Starts Monday, November 1, 2027 — 12:00 PM ET
Education Members Only
On-Demand Learning
Learning Labs, Neural Skills Workshops, and 21-Day Neural Challenge are all recorded and enhanced for on-demand training. Each is extended through a companion learning portal that provides the video lessons, teaching materials, guided neural practices, additional self-paced learning, and links to curated resources. Challenge portals include the complete sequence of 21 daily lessons and practices.
Education Members can attend programs live, return to programs they’ve already completed to review the material, repeat practices, and deepen their learning—or participate fully on-demand. IOSM students and alumni also lock in continuing access to their initial coursework and certification materials.
Membership opens an entire library of past programs in addition to the new offerings introduced during membership. As we add new Learning Labs, Workshops, and Challenges, the library continues to grow—giving members an expanding body of continuing education, neural practices, and applications to draw on throughout the year.
Join IOSM Education Membership
Unlock a full year of formal, practical tools, and continuous learning—with unlimited access to IOSM programs, learning portals, and the growing on-demand library.
$49/month or $490/year
"As machines get better at being machines, humans have to get better at being more human. Human empathy, emotional intelligence, and resilience are the new high-performance infrastructure."
Andrew J. Scott, Professor of Economics, London Business School