Level 2: Capacity Under Pressure Brain Fitness Core Workshop

You left today's session with something you didn't have when you walked in.

 A map. A language. A framework for understanding what's actually been happening to your brain, and why pushing harder hasn't been working.

 You named your drains. You identified the holes in the bucket. You practiced four tools that can reset your nervous system in under 60 seconds. And you wrote down the one thing you most need to remember.

That was the first-aid kit.

The Core workshop is where we build the infrastructure.

Not a patch. Not another technique to add to the pile. A real, personalized system for protecting and expanding your capacity,

built around how your brain actually works, in the conditions you're actually living in.

THE HONEST TRUTH ABOUT WHERE YOU ARE RIGHT NOW

If you're reading this, something in today's session landed for you. You recognized yourself in the narrows and shallows effect. You felt the window shrink during the exercise. You wrote down a drain you've been carrying for longer than you want to admit.

And you're wondering: is there more?

 There is. And here's what it is.

What today gave you:

 •  A map of what pressure does to your brain

•  Four body-based regulation tools

•  Three decision-making frameworks

•  A one-page capacity audit

•  One minimum effective dose action

 That's your first-aid kit. It slows the drain.

What Core gives you:

•  Deep mastery of all 8 executive functioning skills

•  Your personal cognitive load map

•  Role-specific application of every tool

•  An introduction to communication under pressure

•  A personal brain fitness sustainability plan

 That's your infrastructure. It rebuilds the bucket.

WHAT YOU'LL BUILD IN THREE HOURS

The 9 Executive Functioning Skills: Named, Mapped, and Yours

Most people have heard the term executive functioning. Almost nobody has been taught what all 9 skills are, how they developed - or didn't, and which ones are most vulnerable to the specific pressures of their role. In Core, we go there. You will leave knowing your own EF profile: where you're strong, where you're depleted, and why.

Your Personal Cognitive Load Map

Not a generic stress model. A map built around your role, your patterns, and your specific vulnerability windows, the times of day, the types of demands, and the conditions under which your executive functioning is most at risk. This is the tool that changes daily behaviour, not just workshop behaviour.

The Triangulation Method: Applied to Your Real World

The triangulation method is the three-pillar framework that underlies everything Village of Play teaches: executive functioning skills, brain and nervous system awareness, and communication under pressure. In Core, we go deeper into the first two pillars and introduce the third, how your communication style shifts under cognitive load, and what that costs you and the people around you. The deep skill-building on communication lives in the Deep Series. But you'll leave Core knowing exactly why it matters.

Brain Fitness in a VUCA World

VUCA: volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous isn't just a business term. It's the lived experience of everyone in a high-demand role right now. In Core, we apply your brain fitness skills directly to VUCA conditions: how to maintain decision quality when the rules keep changing, how to regulate when the threat is ambiguous, how to protect cognitive capacity when the volatility is structural rather than temporary.

A Brain Fitness Sustainability Plan: Built for Real Life

Not a goal-setting exercise. Not an ideal version of your life. A realistic, role-specific, minimum-effective-dose plan for protecting your capacity over time, that you can actually use the week you walk out of the room.

WHO THIS IS FOR

 This workshop is designed for people who are still showing up. Still delivering. Still giving everything to work that matters, and privately running on less than they should be.

WORKSHOP DETAILS

 Duration

3 hours (optional extension to 3.5 hours for deeper application)

Format

In-person  •  Live virtual available for organizations

Group Size

Maximum 20 participants

What to Bring

The reference card from your Lean workshop (if you attended)  •  A pen  •  Yourself, as you actually are right now

What's Included

Participant workbook  •  Personal cognitive load map  •  Brain fitness sustainability plan  •  Resource card with QR codes for ongoing learning

Prerequisite

Attendance at a Lean workshop is recommended but not required

INVESTMENT

 REGULAR: $197 per person

LEAN ALUMNI: $97 per person. You've already done the hardest part. You showed up.

ORGANIZATIONAL: Contact Us Team bookings, school boards, and healthcare organizations - let's talk.