'Self & I': The case of Mistaken Identity - Exploring the Foundation of Quality of Mind

This podcast series explores a game-changing understanding of the human mind that can exponentially increase the performance, resourcefulness and well-being for any individual or organisation. 
In this episode we explore another one of the key foundations of the understanding that underpins the foundation of Quality of Mind. We recommend unless you are already familiar with the benefits and implications of the understanding, you have a listen to some of our other podcasts first, otherwise this might sound irrelevant to the business world!  
This is a conversation between Piers Thurston and fellow Quality of Mind programme delivery expert Rena Loizou
We talk about:
What do we mean by 'Self & I'
How realising this mistaken identity is foundational to experience the benefits of Quality of Mind
How can we actually explore this in our own experience?  Unhooking the content of experience from the awareness of it 
How what we are all seeking is dissolving of the self - how ordinary it is to experience, but we miss it and instead focus on the content of our experience
The relationship between 'Self and I' and 'Real and Never True'
Curious - want to know more?
Click here to find out more about Quality of Mind  
We reference the 'Real & Never True' foundation of QoM -  listen to an episode on that here to find out more
Explore other episodes on the benefits of Quality of Mind, and past clients explaining the difference it has made to their work and lives. 
If you are curious to see whether science agrees yet, watch Jill Bolte Taylor's on her stroke and losing her 'self' TED talk
If you recognise the spiritual element of what we are pointing to and want to explore more then check out Rupert Spira's excellent podcast The Essence of Non Duality 
Piers Thurston regularly writes about Quality of Mind on Linkedin and has a large collection of articles and posts
More about Rena Loizou here

An Intro to Quality of Mind - Some Great Questions from the Business Futures Podcast

Quality of Mind: Realising Exponential Human Potential In Every Aspect of Life & Work. This podcast is an opportunity for curiousity, intrigue and insight as you explore a game changing understanding of the mind that can exponentially increase the performance, resourcefulness and well-being for any individual or organisation. 
This episode is taken from the Business Futures Podcast from Datel
Piers is interviewed by  Emma Pownall the Marketing Director of Datel, a new comer to Quality of Mind, where she is curious to understand more about Quality of Mind, and how it might be a key aspect of future ready businesses.
This episode would serve as an excellent introduction to Quality of Mind for anyone.
The interview answers the following questions:
How would you describe Quality of Mind?
Why should businesses and leaders care about this and be interested?
What are the basic principles of Quality of Mind?
Can you say more about the aspect described as 'aperture' and how is it useful?
How does this fit in with techniques like mindfulness?
Examples of the wide impact of Quality of Mind in life and work
How can we get into the right frame of mind?
If you are intrigued, what are the next steps?
To make a comment or ask a question just voice here 
Curious - want to know more?
You can find out more about Business Futures Podcast from Datel
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 the Quality of Mind podcast: Listen here for an episode about what benefits someone can get from the understanding 
Piers Thurston 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 
 

Why aren’t we all seeing it yet? A conversation with best selling author Michael Neill

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 Michael Neill. Michael is an internationally renowned transformative coach, author and thought leader. His best selling books have inspired millions. His talent as a writer and speaker is acting as a driving force in bringing this new understanding of the Mind to people across the world. In this episode they discuss what gets in the way of people realising this game changing understanding and all the benefits it can bring to an individual or a business.
The discussion covers:
How we are much more pre-occupied than we might recognise
That many people don't even realise that there is a way to get even further, even faster, with less effort
How innocently we mis-diagnose what is really going on
What great leadership is
How to join the dots between this abstract and universal 'oxygen' conversation and the day to day 
Why it can be helpful to see the power of resonating rather than trying to understand 
Curious - want to know more?
You can find out more about Michael and his work here
His wonderful podcast Caffeine for the Soul
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 the Quality of Mind podcast: Listen here for an episode about what benefits someone can get from the understanding 
Piers Thurston 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 

Burnout. Is there another way?

This podcast series explores a game-changing understanding of the human mind that can exponentially increase the performance, resourcefulness and well-being for any individual or organisation. 
In this episode Piers chats with Dr Giles P Croft. They discuss a topic that is becoming  ever more prevalent - professional burnout. How it is misunderstood and what you can do about it. This episode is for you if suffer from a formal diagnosis of burnout, or ever just wondered whether you are doing too much, and struggle with burning the candle at both ends 
The discussion covers:
What is burnout, and what are the symptoms, is it different to depression and stress?
How for some of us we can normalise being on the edge of a low level of burnout without realising it  
The illusion of being trapped by our circumstances and situation 
How, once we understand what’s going on, we see we have infinite possibilities, including staying with the life we already have but with more ease deeper sense of peace, or have the clarity and insight to make changes
Curious - want to know more?
You can find out more about Giles and his work here, and his LinkedIn profile
Click here to find out more about Quality of Mind  
Subscribe to our Youtube channel for a series of 2 min videos all about Quality of Mind
Check out this podcast: What are the principles behind Quality of Mind? Or here for an episode about what benefits someone can get from the understanding 
Piers Thurston regularly writes about Quality of Mind on Linkedin and has a large collection of articles and posts

’Real but Never True’ - What is the understanding of reality behind Quality of Mind?

This podcast series explores a game-changing understanding of the human mind that can exponentially increase the performance, resourcefulness and well-being for any individual or organisation. 
 
In this episode we explore the nub of the understanding that underpins the foundation of Quality of Mind. We recommend unless you are already familiar with the benefits and implications of the understanding, you have a listen to some of our other podcasts first, otherwise this might sound irrelevant to the business world!  
This is a conversation between Piers Thurston and fellow Quality of Mind programme delivery expert Rena Loizou
We talk about:
How realising that any reality is 'real but never true' is foundational to experience the benefits of Quality of Mind
What do we mean by 'real' and 'true'?
How can we actually explore this in our own experience?
How do we get to see reality as more 'real and not true', and therefore benefit from more resourcefulness, wellbeing and potential?
Curious - want to know more?
Click here to find out more about Quality of Mind  
Check out this podcast where we explore, albeit in a different way, a similar direction
We have plenty of other episodes on the benefits of Quality of Mind, and past clients explaining the difference it has made to their work and lives. 
If you are curious to see whether science agrees yet, watch Anil Seth's TED talk and Don Hoffman's The case against reality
If you recognise the spiritual element of what we are pointing to and want to explore more then check out Rupert Spira's excellent podcast The Essence of Non Duality 
Piers Thurston regularly writes about Quality of Mind on Linkedin and has a large collection of articles and posts
More about Rena Loizou here

“When you’re sure there’s more to life than this” A conversation about disillusionment, the rat race. Is there another way?

This podcast series explores a game-changing understanding of the human mind that can exponentially increase the performance, resourcefulness and well-being for any individual or organisation. 
 
In this episode Piers chats with fellow coach Helen Amery. They discuss the common, but misunderstood topic of disillusionment. Usually we think it’s terrible to be in a state of confusion or disappointment about life when in fact these times provide the perfect opportunity to discover something new and fresh. If you’re asking these questions - Is this it? Does it have to be this hard? - then this episode is for you.
We talk about:
How we can normalise a low level of satisfaction with life and become 'comfortably numb', before we get more aware of being disillusioned with our lives
What is going on when you aren't feeling connected and loving life?
How your lifestyle and circumstances are never actually causing your disillusionment with life - it just really looks like they are
How we confuse what is a brick and what is jelly.....(jelly & bricks - yes,really!)
How we become limited by our imaginations about what is possible
The illusion of being trapped by our need for a certain lifestyle and money
How, once we understand what’s going on, we see we have infinite possibilities, including staying with the exact life we already have but with a deeper sense of contentment and joy.
Curious - want to know more?
You can find out more about Helen and her work at Wild Fig executive coaching, and her LinkedIn profile
Listen to Helen on her journey as she startsto have realisations about the principles behind Quality of Mind in this special behind the scenes 3 part mini series
Click here to find out more about Quality of Mind  
Check out this podcast: What are the principles behind Quality of Mind?
Piers Thurston regularly writes about Quality of Mind on Linkedin and has a large collection of articles and posts
 
 

What is at the core, behind the 'magic' of Quality of Mind? A chat with corporate coach Dominic Scaffidi

This podcast series explores a game-changing understanding of the human mind that can exponentially increase the performance, resourcefulness and well-being for any individual or organisation. 
 
Please note this episode gets a little technical (or some might say profound!) so you might want to listen first to some other episodes (e.g.  benefits and role and relevance of Quality of Mind)
 
This is part 3 of series of chats with fellow coach Dominic Scaffidi - in this conversation we reveal what we have been pointing to in other episodes: What is it that we are realising about the nature of the human experience and reality that unlocks so much resourcefulness, potential and wellbeing in people?
 
In this episode we discuss:
How innocently and invisibly we usually start in the wrong place
What do you think we mean when we say 'you' or 'I'? We reveal a different view...
What is this 'real but not true' and illusion all about?
How the very nature of reality is misunderstood, and that leads to us to being more of a limitation of potential than we need to be.
So what next?
Curious - want to know more?
Have a listen to previous interviews with Dominic where we discuss 'The highest leverage point - A discussion to explore what really makes the difference' or How does this understanding transform the transformative effect of coaching.
Dominic runs his own executive and team coaching business HR Possibilities, and you can find him on LinkedIn here 
Click here to find out more about Quality of Mind 
'I have some questions' a podcast episodes that discusses some of the common questions in the understanding
What are the benefits: Check out this podcast:  Dramatic Shifts in Productivity, Mental Wellbeing & Purpose from Just 3 Days. Or hear from another coaching client, about the 'The simple, surreal, yet life changing nature of it all'
Piers Thurston regularly writes about Quality of Mind on LinkedIn and has a large collection of articles and posts

Re-Emerging from Pandemic - What Leaders need to know. An interview with Caroline Brewer

This podcast series explores a game-changing understanding of the human mind that can exponentially increase the performance, resourcefulness and well-being for any individual or organisation. 
In this episode Piers chats with Caroline Brewer. Caroline, has 30 years of HR experience both working in organisations and as a coach, discovered the transformative power of principles behind Quality of Mind, she has since gone on to devote her work to sharing the principles, and has just published her first book.
In this episode we discuss:
How organisations have been responding to the crisis at different need levels, physical, mental and beyond.
We didn't need to wait for a crisis to get better - our need to recognise that adaptive ways of working weren't caused by crisis, there is another factor to consider.
As we re-emerge how can we keep some of the fresh thinking and pattern disruption
The positivity paradox
Curious - want to know more?
''More Than You Think: Seeing the magic that lies behind our personal thinking'' Caroline's brand new book here 
Caroline runs her own coaching business Designed2Thrive  and you can find her on LinkedIn here 
Click here to find out more about Quality of Mind 
'I have some questions' a podcast episodes that discusses some of the common questions in the understanding
What are the benefits: Check out this podcast:  Dramatic Shifts in Productivity, Mental Wellbeing & Purpose from Just 3 Days. Or hear from another coaching client, about the 'The simple, surreal, yet life changing nature of it all'
Piers Thurston regularly writes about Quality of Mind on LinkedIn and has a large collection of articles and posts

How does this understanding transform the transformative effect of coaching. An interview with corporate coach Dominic Scaffidi

This podcast series explores a game-changing understanding of the human mind that can exponentially increase the performance, resourcefulness and well-being for any individual or organisation. 
In this episode Piers chats with Dominic Scaffidi. Dominic, after a highly successful career in blue chip HR, discovered the value of coaching, which then became all the more powerful when he realised the impact of leveraging this new understanding of the mind. This episode explores what is truly transformative about coaching from this understanding
In this episode we discuss:
The three key differences between this approach to coaching and conventional coaching
How you will come to realise you don't need coaching...!
Why you will always be a limitation of your self
What do we mean by 'transformative'?
Curious - want to know more?
Have a listen to the previous interview with Dominic where we discuss 'The highest leverage point - A discussion to explore what really makes the difference'
Dominic runs his own executive and team coaching business HR Possibilities, and you can find him on LinkedIn here 
Click here to find out more about Quality of Mind 
'I have some questions' a podcast episodes that discusses some of the common questions in the understanding
What are the benefits: Check out this podcast:  Dramatic Shifts in Productivity, Mental Wellbeing & Purpose from Just 3 Days. Or hear from another coaching client, about the 'The simple, surreal, yet life changing nature of it all'
Piers Thurston regularly writes about Quality of Mind on LinkedIn and has a large collection of articles and posts

A chat with a Futurist about the Mind and a Pandemic

This podcast series explores a game-changing understanding of the human mind that can create an exponential shift in the performance, resourcefulness and well-being of any business or organisation.
In this episode, Futurist Matt O'Neill joins us for a discussion on how the current situation is effecting us, and we look at some of the interesting implications. 
This episode explores:
How in this situation we realise more deeply what agility and adaption is. 
The role of 'virtual intimacy', as connection via proximity is reduced
The difference between positivity & optimism as a symptom of a solid understanding of 'what we are', versus it as 'a useful thing to think and say' 
How this is an exciting time to be alive - as long as we don't try and control it or predict it!
 Still Curious - Want to know more?
Find out more about Quality of Mind  
Don't forget to check out the other 'LOOKING AT' episodes on CORONA VIRUS , CONNECTION, RESILIENCE & DECISION MAKING
Have a listen to Matt's first appearance on the show here
Check out this short podcast: What are the principles behind Quality of Mind?
Piers Thurston regularly writes about Quality of Mind on Linkedin and has a large collection of articles and post