Presenter Name: Ursula Pottinga, CPCC, PCC
Date: Thursday, Jan 13, 2026
Time: 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Location: Zoom
CEU: Pending
Description:
Effective coaching helps clients balance imagination with execution — the dance between the Default Mode Network (our inner “wizard” of reflection, creativity, and meaning-making) and the Task Positive Network (our “builder” of focus, planning, and action). In this session, we’ll explore the neuroscience behind these two brain systems and discover practices that help clients integrate vision with practical steps, transforming inspired dreaming into grounded doing.
Participants will:
- Understand the distinct the distinct roles of the Default Mode Network (DMN) and Task Positive Network (TPN) in reflection, creativity, focus, and goal-directed behavior.
- Recognize how imbalance between these networks can lead to overthinking, burnout, or lack of follow-through in clients (and themselves).
- Explore coaching techniques that intentionally activate each network to support clients from visioning to action planning.
- Practice methods for helping clients move fluidly between dreaming (DMN activation) and doing (TPN activation) to foster inspiration and sustained momentum.
- Apply neuroscience-informed strategies to strengthen integration between the two networks, enhancing creativity, clarity, and execution in coaching outcomes
Learning Outcomes:
- Explore how the brain’s Default Mode and Task Positive Networks influence creativity, focus, and action in the coaching process.
- Experiencepractices that help clients and coaches move fluidly between dreaming (visioning and reflection) and doing (clarity and execution).
- Practice neuroscience-informed tools to integrate imagination and purposeful action for more effective, whole-brain coaching conversations.
About the Speaker:
Ursula Pottinga, is a CPCC, PCC, and Certified Neurotransformational coach.
She studied Neuroscience at the Mindsight Institute (Dr. Dan Siegel).
In her Profound Growth coaching and training business she supports highly successful leaders break out of old patterns that hold them back from being the best version of themselves, impacting culture, relationships and creating new paths forward. She is also the founding partner of BEabove Leadership, where she has co-created and co-leads internationally BEabove’s flagship Advanced Coaching Program: Neuroscience, Consciousness and Transformational Coaching and the Relational Trauma Certification together with her business partner Ann Betz.
Ursula draws on her 25 years of experience in international business and professional development to improve engagement, executive presence and change on a deep transformational level combing classic coaching skills with neuroscience concept and tools. She is a masterful coach and experienced facilitator. She has co-authored a number of books and is a host of her own podcast “What’s Coming Into Focus” where she explores innovative ideas and thought-provoking conversations at the intersection of science, energy and systems.