Positive Intelligence® Program to Transform Your Mind
Achieve Calmness, Clarity, and Focus
"The 'mind control' is life changing."
"What is new and life changing is the ‘mind control,’ the ability to ‘let go’ when any negative feelings take over. This program has given me the ability to be in the driver seat of my life."
- Nathalie Brys, General Counsel, Philips
We’ve all experienced it–the euphoria, optimism, and excitement for transformative change at the end of a “life changing” seminar, book, or coaching session.
And we’ve all experienced the discouraging deflation that ensued. Within months we mostly reverted to our old familiar self.
For years, Shirzad Chamine, founder of Positive Intelligence®, had been in passionate pursuit of first figuring out why our attempts at positive change so consistently fizzle and how to create positive change that lasts.
Starting with his Stanford lectures on the topic, recent breakthroughs in neuroscience, cognitive and positive psychology, and performance science and with a massive body of research which has incorporated 500,000 participants, Shirzad found the 3 primary reasons why positive change initiatives fizzle:
We treat the symptoms rather than the root cause
We generate insights rather than build muscles and
We lack a common operating system
To devise such an operating system, Shirzad did a massive factor analysis on the root-level factors that determine our thoughts, emotions, and reactions. He identified 10 saboteurs and 5 sage powers in our psyche that determine our level of mental fitness.
The Positive Intelligence® program boosts dramatically your Mental Fitness quotient by exercising the 3 core muscles of mental fitness in your brain with the support of individual or group coaching, weekly video sessions and daily app-guided practices.
Eight Weeks of Inspired Practice
The cutting edge program to boost root-level mental fitness
8 weekly 1-hour online coaching sessions and expert advice
8 coaching sessions where I provide online professional coaching and expert advice and guidance before, during and after the program on a 1:1 or group coaching basis to ensure:
You have an exceptional experience
You get the maximum benefit from the program
You unlock your full potential
6 weekly 1-hour experiential video sessions
6 one-hour video highly engaging sessions, where Shirzad guides you through experiential exercises that deepen and personalize your understanding of the mental fitness tools.
You will learn to:
Expose and intercept your top Saboteurs. Mental fitness requires the ability to intercept and discredit the Saboteurs.
Issue Self-Command (through 10-second PQ Reps) innovative 10-second exercises which build up this crucial Self-Command muscle in the brain to boost your ability to command your mind to quiet the Saboteur region and amplify the Sage region.
Mobilize Sage (Empathize, Explore, Innovate, Navigate, Activate) For lasting peak performance and greater happiness, you will learn to boost all 5 powers and know when and how to use which power.
Exclusive App Guiding Your Daily Practice
Each day during the whole program you will get a different focus for daily practice assigned through a personalized companion app available exclusively to program participants.
This builds one small muscle at a time, laying down new neural pathways to form lasting positive habits of your mind.
The cumulative impact by program’s end is substantial.
Positive Intelligence® book
Access to 8 chapters of Shirzad Chamine´s best-selling book “Positive Intelligence®” in pdf format and in audio format through the app.
Interactive PQ Gym
Through the app, you have access to innovative 10-second PQ Reps build up your Self-Command muscle.
You learn to be clear-headed and calm even in the midst of great challenges, able to command your mind to shift from Saboteur to Sage response.
Daily Progress Tracking
The app tracks your daily progress against minimum targets associated with new neural pathway (muscle) formation.
Personalized daily coaching tips from Shirzad continue to both encourage and challenge you to keep going.
“The programme has impressive results including studies which show that within 6-8 weeks of mental fitness training you would be able to see in MRI imaging increased grey matter in the PQ Brain region, where your Sage lives, and decreased grey matter in the Survivor Brain region, where your Saboteurs live.”
— Shirzad Chamine
Delving deeper into your mental fitness
The key to Mental Fitness is to weaken the internal Saboteurs
Your internal Saboteurs generate all your “negativity” in the way they respond to challenges. Your Saboteurs cause all your stress, anxiety, self-doubt, frustration, regret, shame, guilt, and unhappiness. Saboteurs include the Judge, Controller, Avoider, Victim, Stickler and 5 others.
Your Sage lives in an entirely different region of your brain and handles challenges in ways that produce positive emotions like curiosity, empathy, creativity, calm, and clear-headed laser-focused action. You’d perform better and feel happier.
If your Mental Fitness is high, you’ll be able to quickly shift your own brain activation from the saboteur to the sage region, so you would feel calm, clear-headed and laser-focused.
Your are Mentally Fit when you respond to challenging situations with a calm, clear, and laser-focus mind.
The research that Shirzad undertook defines Mental Fitness as the measure of how quickly you can shift from negative to positive responses to challenges. For example, how quickly you recover from a stressed response, to a calm, clear-headed response to an unexpected crisis.
PQ™ (Positive Intelligence Quotient) measures the relative strength of your positive mental muscles (Sage) versus the negative (Saboteur).
Independent researchers have validated this measure to be the greatest predictor of how happy you are, and how well you perform against your potential.
“The Positive Intelligence program led to substantial results:
At MetLife, trained salespeople outsold the control group by 37%
Motorola recorded improved productivity in 93% of trained employees
In a UK restaurant group, higher competency resulted in 34% greater profit growth
At Sanofi-Aventis Pharmaceutical, the average salesperson with improved competency sold £41,236 more per month
At L’Oreal, strength in these competencies resulted in £68,256 increase per sales person
At CIBC, strength in these competencies account for 32% of booked sales and 71% of pipeline sale.”
— Shirzad Chamine