Are We Too Comfortably Numb? Is There More to Life?

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....
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Curious - want to know more?
You can find out more about Kate and her website 
Find out more about Quality of Mind 
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Piers Thurston regularly writes about Quality of Mind on LinkedIn and has a large collection of articles and posts

A Real Time Quality of Mind Coaching Conversation with 3 Business Leaders

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

The Complete Book of Awakening -Talking to the Authors

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

Realising the need for more evolution in how organisations are led and structured

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

Wants, Desires, Resistance, and Tuning into the Optimum system. A conversation with Clare Dimond

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

How the Mind Turns up in Everything We Do - A Conversation with a True Leader & Innovator

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 
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Piers regularly writes about Quality of Mind on Linkedin and has a large collection of articles and posts
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Are we Digging for Potential in the Wrong Place? From the Dance floor to the Board Room

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 

A 3min Snippet: A Client talks about the benefits and Nature of Quality of Mind

From the QUALITY OF MIND Podcast
 
Part of our new 'Not Even 5 Mins Series'  -
 
Ep6: 'The Hydrofoil on the Boat
A excerpt from the episode ''
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
 
Mark Lund - President of McCann World Group UK and Europe, talks about the benefits and Nature of Quality of Mind
 
 

A Client’s Story of Personal and Organisational Transformation

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 Quality of Mind client - Mark Lund. Mark was President McCann World Group for UK and Europe - with a remit for about 15 businesses and 5,000 people.
 
This episodes discuses:
Transforming 10 business to behave as one; increases in profit, productivity, and scale
Working in flow, & better decisions. More psychological freedom
The power of recognising the capacity for universal intelligence
QoM is not a normal training; the benefits don't decay like most courses, but continue to grow. The potential is massive
People are yet to recognise how powerful a shift in how you see the world could be - wish I'd done it 10 years earlier!
In todays competitive world QoM is the key to enable the people you work with and the whole organisation to be so much more
Curious - want to know more?
We have a 15min YouTube video version of this conversation here
You can find out more about Mark 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, including our new 'Not Even 5 Mins' section
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 

A 6min Snippet: ’Unlocking Better Workshops’

From the QUALITY OF MIND Podcast
Part of the new 'Not Even 5 Mins' Series' 
 
Ep5: 'Unlocking Better Workshops'
A excerpt from the full episode 'The Missing Piece in Creating Better Workshop & Meetings Outcomes''
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!!
 
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