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What’s the Brain Got to Do with It? Unlocking and Activating the Brain for Better Collaboration

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Our brains create behaviors that become someone else’s experience. The exchange of experiences are the heart of team dynamics. Understanding the neurological underpinnings of team dynamics is important to unlocking and activating the brain to enhance the collaborative experience at both an individual and collective level. The goal of this chapter is to introduce some key elements of the brain and strategies that can promote more effective teaming and learning. Highlights of such elements include inter-brain synchrony, mirror neuron activation, the role of emotions, explicit and implicit biases, a sense of safety, belonging, inclusion and trust, and related hormone changes. All these influence team success.

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    Ronald J. Bonnstetter

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    David Gosselin

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Bonnstetter, R.J., Gosselin, D. (2023). What’s the Brain Got to Do with It? Unlocking and Activating the Brain for Better Collaboration. In: Gosselin, D. (eds) A Practical Guide for Developing Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration Skills . AESS Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies and Sciences Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37220-9_2

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