Welcome to "Wisdoming"

What is "wisdoming"?

We define 'wisdoming' as the practice of accessing, aligning, and applying our full intelligences to our work or lives. Our full human intelligences include the combination of all the neural networks found in the human body including specifically the head, heart, and gut. Wisdoming is an active practice meaning it is something we can consciously choose to be doing versus just a thing we acquire.

What do you mean by neural networks in the head, heart, and gut?

The human body is filled with neurons that send messages back and forth telling it exactly what to do and how to do it. For example, neural communications are how we voluntarily move our body, take in information about our environment, and unconsciously they tell our hearts to beat, lungs to breathe, and digestive system to process our food. These neurons connect together into neural pathways where messages are sent across from one neuron to another. These neural pathways form networks or bigger areas with many pathways connected together in one particular area. We’ve known for a long time about the billions of neurons in our head brain. But in the last few decades, scientists have discovered smaller but relevant networks in our hearts and digestive systems. You may have even heard of the heart brain or gut brain.

What do you mean by multiple intelligences?

Each of these neural networks and the neural pathways sending messages throughout our bodies have primary functions. Our head brain is responsible for perception, thinking, & meaning making. Our heart-brain is responsible for emotions, values, and relationships. Our gut-brain is responsible for our self-preservation, mobilization, and core sense of self.

How do you do 'wisdoming'?

• Step 1: Accessing means getting into communication with or connecting to our multiple intelligences.
• Step 2: Aligning means bringing our multiple intelligences into alignment in their highest expression (or highest functioning state).
• Step 3: Applying means then using these intelligences in a particular context to address a situation, communication, or issue in our lives.

When might you use wisdoming?

Wisdoming can be used in almost any context but specifically is useful in situations involving self-awareness, intuition development, state management, courage, motivation, action-taking, problem-solving, decision-making, habit-control, health or well-being, and relationship building or conflict resolution. This wisdoming practice and approach includes many different techniques and tools for applying it and putting it into practice in different situations.

What is a Wisdoming Preparation Practice?

A wisdoming preparation practice is an extremely quick practice that can be used right before engaging in an activity of which wisdoming would bring value. This practice helps to center and prepare your intelligences to be operating at their best going into the situation or conversation. When our intelligences (head, heart, gut) are operating at their best or in their highest expression they are functioning in a particular way.

• Our head is creative.
• Our heart is compassionate
• Our gut is courageous.

Common situations we’ve found a wisdoming preparation practice to be helpful?

Anytime you are going to have a “crucial” or “important” conversation with another person. Such as conducting an interview, giving feedback, having development conversations, discussing expectations or accountability, addressing issues or areas of concern.

Conducting a Wisdoming Preparation Practice

This practice includes moving through a process of wisdoming before engaging in a situation or communication. The preparation practice can be tailored to the specific situation or communication you are going to be having in order to personalize it but the general steps remain the same.

I am going to give you an example of one I might do in preparing to have a feedback conversation with someone on a difficult topic.

• Start by asking yourself the question: “What is the most compassionate, creative, and courageous me I can be while (situation) giving or receiving feedback?”
• Bring your attention to and connect with your heart and the feeling of compassion for the other person (for their feelings and emotions, potential reaction, and current experience; as well as for their values and what’s important to them)
• Move up to your head recognizing the creativity of your mind (its ability perceive and take in information about the situation, actively listen and understand the person’s response/situation, and to make meaning of what it hears and perceives during the communication)
• Return to your heart and give yourself compassion (for any emotions or feelings you might be having about the communication, for recognizing and staying aligned with your heart’s values, and for being willing to engage in a conversation, trusting yourself to speak wisely)
• Move to the gut sensing its courage (to show up fully present as your genuine authentic self, to acknowledge any fears (yours or theirs) that might come up, and to willingly take action to create a wise outcome).
• Finally return back to the heart, to ensure you enter the conversation full of compassion and allow it to guide your words, thoughts, decisions, feelings, and actions.