Inspire and Educate Your Audience
Elevate the hearts, minds, and souls of learners, professionals, and students
Share a profound experience that changes the way people see the world and their place in it.
​Due's presentations are often rated by attendees as one of the most compelling and memorable sessions in the many conferences and programs where she has spoken.
Mindful Listening to Deepen Connection & Understanding
Discover the power of listening to build life-affirming relationships
​We invite your audience to experience and practice mindful listening as a science-based process for building enriching and restorative relationships. Unlock the transformative power of mindful listening to genuinely connect in our digitally distracted era.
You will apply insights from neuroscience to activate four key neural systems (attention, resilience, meta-awareness and connection) that enable you to ground yourself in the present moment and attune to what people express verbally and non-verbally. You will also engage in partner exercises to experience how intentionally activating these neural systems enables you to deeply listen not just with your mind, but also with your heart, body, and spirit.
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Learning Objectives:
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Deconstruct the neurobiology of listening: discover the neural networks that enable you to attune to others, as well as the main causes of poor listening and disconnection.
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Practice activating your neural systems for attention, resilience, meta-awareness, and connection to boost your capacity to more fully hear and honor another human being
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Become aware of how what people say activates associations in your brain—which can either enhance your understanding by creating neural resonance or divert your attention by triggering your own memories and stories
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Discern when you don't have the capacity to mindfully listen and set boundaries
Neural Pathways to Resilience:
How to Activate and Build the Neurobiology of Resilience
In this post-pandemic world, so many professionals feel exhausted and burned out. What does it take to re-charge and regenerate ourselves so that we have the energy to meet the challenges that come up in our day-to-day lives?
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This experiential presentation will deconstruct the neurobiology of resilience by shedding light on how the neural system for resilience interconnects with the neural systems for connection, attention, and meta-awareness. In addition, you will discern how interactions in different patterns of brain activation can either energize or drain the resilience system.
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Learning Objectives:
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Experience how resilience corresponds to neural networks that underlie our capacity to attune to ourselves (the interoception system) and our capacity to attune and connect to others (the connection system).
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Discern how mindless interactions in autopilot contribute to burn-out and how conscious and intentional interactions (in Brain 3.0) contribute to recovery and resilience
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Practice short exercises that activate and boost the key neural pathways for resilience
The Neuroscience of Wisdom:
How Mindfulness Builds the Neural Networks for Emotional Intelligence
Are widespread beliefs that emotions negatively impact reasoning and decision-making true? Is our ability to reason separated from or intertwined with the "emotional brain"? How can insights from neuroscience help us understand and harness the wisdom of our emotions?
The purpose of this session is to provide a deeper understanding of emotional intelligence by synthesizing research on the brain systems that correspond to processing emotions, empathy, and decision-making. Experiential exercises will bring these insights from neuroscience to life to give you a visceral understanding of how emotions are vital to cognition and the development of wisdom. You will also learn and practice mindfulness techniques to enhance and build the neural networks that correspond to emotional intelligence.
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Learning Objectives:
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Improve self-awareness by learning how to connect emotions, urges, and impulses to three primary patterns of brain activation.
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Use mindfulness techniques to center yourself and shift into the pattern of brain activation that enhances wisdom and intuition.
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Learn how to intentionally guide brain activation through interpersonal interactions to strengthen connection, empathy, compassion, and collaboration.
The Neuroscience of Mindfulness:
Experience how mindfulness practices enhance your brain
Do you ever ask yourself "am I doing this right?" when you practice mindfulness?
Gain answers to this question by harnessing insights from contemplative neuroscience to empower you to practice mindfulness with more clarity and efficacy. ​During this workshop you will be guided to practice and experience how a variety of mindfulness techniques can serve as “work outs” for 4 key brain systems that enable you to concentrate, be self-aware, bounce back from setbacks, and build healthy connections.
Learning Objectives:
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Connect mindfulness practices to the strengthening of 4 key brain systems: the attention system, the meta-awareness system, the resilience system, and the connection system.
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Practice 4 different mindfulness techniques to experience the activation of each of these key brain systems.
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Apply this knowledge to meditate more effectively and reap the benefits of a regular mindfulness practice.
The Neuroscience of Inclusion:
How to Mindfully Steer Brain Activation to Develop Inclusive Leadership
How does your brain activity affect the people around you and your organization? Furthermore, what differentiates the brain of an inclusive leader and how does their brain activity affect the people with whom they work?
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In this experiential, interactive workshop, you will gain a visceral understanding of why inclusion and wholeness are essential to well-being and performance at the individual and at the organizational level. The first part of the workshop sheds light on the impact of exclusion on the human brain and how biases and inequity contribute to marginalization and trauma. Then the workshop guides you to practice a series of neuroscience-based techniques that activate and strengthen key neural networks that enhance your capacity to effectively foster inclusion, learning, collaboration, creativity, innovation, and transformation.
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Be able to link exclusion and inclusion to three primary patterns of brain activation.
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Apply insights from neuroscience and mindfulness to build up the brain systems that support emotional intelligence and inclusive leadership ("Brain 3.0").
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Practice techniques to develop and harness Brain 3.0 to more effectively co-create inclusive environments that enable people to perform as their best selves.
The Neuroscience of Marginalization, Trauma and Bias
This experiential, interactive workshop is designed for professionals (such as teachers, administrators, counselors, social workers, school resource officers, youth development staff) and volunteers who serve groups and communities experiencing marginalization and trauma. The training will equip participants to more effectively address maladaptive survival and defense mechanisms that often manifest when people experience various forms of adversity and distress, and to also mitigate secondary traumatic stress and burnout.
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You will engage in exercises that activate and strengthen neural networks that enable you to be more present, centered, and attuned and to harness your wisdom and compassion to foster connection, resilience, openness, self-awareness, learning, growth, and insight.
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Learning Objectives:
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Be able to link the neurobiological effects of marginalization and trauma to two patterns of brain activation: hypervigilance in “Brain 1.0” and impulsiveness in “Brain 2.0.”
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Apply insights from neuroscience to develop key neural networks in “Brain 3.0” that support executive functioning, self-regulation, de-escalation, self-efficacy, resilience, and learning.
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Practice techniques that activate and strengthen Brain 3.0, a higher state of brain functioning in which we have the capacity to change limiting patterns and beliefs, move towards self-actualization, and positively impact our communities.
Testimonials
"Understanding a bit of the neuroscience behind how our brains process social rejection, and the pattern that we then carry into our lives, is a great neutral primer for taking on info about DEI issues. Without this primer, there is a high degree of resistance, apathy or defensiveness in audiences learning about DEI issues. I'm using this info to help me prime my audience for the DEI training materials I'm creating. I'm also using the info personally in my own growth."
—Alyssa Hand, e-Learning Trainer, MOM's Organic Market"
"This was extremely well structured and shows the clear and research-supported individual and societal benefits of living mindfully, especially in a world that frequently brings out reactive and exclusionary us-and-them attitudes and behaviours in us. The model Quach presents is elegant and shows concretely and practically the path to integrating mindfulness and compassion in our everyday challenges and encounters, be they in the workplace or elsewhere. Bravo and thank you!"
—Dr. Meagan Daley, PhD, psychologist and professor, Clinique de Psychologie et d'Insomnie, Quebec, Canada
"Due Quach provides a compelling and thought-provoking approach that enables leaders and their teams to gain a better understanding of what is happening inside the mind. Her engaging manner and personal story grab a hold of you. The big takeaway is a framework that can easily lead to greater understanding and success in personal interactions."
—Bernard Dagenais, President & CEO, The Main Line Chamber of Commerce
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