The Human Operating Manual

Relational Coherence & Team Resilience

Relational Coherence & Team Resilience Healthy teams regulate together — not perform against each other. Focus: Psychological safety as a nervous system condition, not a slogan Building mutual trust through co-regulation and embodied leadership Communication protocols that reduce tension and ambiguity Rituals of check-in, shared rhythm, and healthy confrontation Healing fractured teams through collective narrative …

Leadership as Nervous System Regulation

Leadership as Nervous System Regulation Your leaders set the tone — and the internal cortisol. Focus: Training leaders in co-regulation, trauma awareness, and energy leadership The physiological effects of bad leadership (heart rate variability, burnout) Conflict resolution, nonviolent communication, and psychological safety Executive routines that model coherence (not just hustle) Humble, values-aligned decision-making as systemic …

Employee Support, Autonomy & Assistance

Employee Support, Autonomy & Assistance The best perk is a nervous system that feels safe at work. Focus: Reframing EAPs from crisis intervention to proactive support Building emotionally literate feedback systems Access to mental health, coaching, financial literacy, stress management Peer support structures, community rituals, and vulnerability-safe spaces Empowering employees to co-create their roles Optional …

Policies That Prioritize Human Systems

Policies That Prioritize Human Systems Health isn’t a benefit. It’s a prerequisite for performance. Focus: Designing policy through a physiological lens Sick leave, parental leave, flex work, menstruation support Meeting length and structure: cognitive load and decision fatigue Anti-burnout scheduling and focused/unfocused task balancing Aligning company values with biological sustainability Optional Cheatsheet: “Organizational Health Policy …

Workplace Wellness

Workplace Wellness If your system makes people sick, perks won’t fix it. Focus: Moving beyond wellness as a “tick box” or marketing tool Real-time stress reduction: breath breaks, posture stations, lighting and air quality Integration of movement, breaks, and circadian-aligned scheduling Food environments, hydration, and workstation ergonomics Metrics: absenteeism, burnout, energy, not just output Optional …

Evolution & Genetics

Evolution & Genetics Sapolsky: Sexual selection and reproductive fitness Kinship and degree of relatedness Reciprocal altruism. Must be smart enough to remember each other and their interactions. Must be long lived. Cooperation, cheating, detecting cheating. Caveat: bacteria still do tit for tat and reciprocal interaction.  Game theory. Prisoner’s dilemma Optimizing genetics for the given environment. …

Emergence & Complexity

Emergence & Complexity https://quantumgravityresearch.org/emergence-theory-overview/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_energy_principlehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_information_theoryhttps:// www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01041/fullhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29729890/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S027322972100054X

Organizational Level Resources

Organizational Level Resources Sapiens A Short History of Nearly Everything Origin Story: A big history of everything Homo Deus A Hunter-Gatherers Guide to the 21st Century The Silk Roads, A New History of the World The Weirdest People in the World: How the west became psychologically peculiar and particularly prosperous The Dawn of Everything: A …

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