Harry Pickens is an award-winning performing artist and educator. Author of In Tune: Lessons In Life From A Life In Music, his multifaceted musical career has featured collaborations with hundreds of the world’s great jazz artists, commissions for choral works featuring the poetry of Wendell Berry, and a recent performance for the Dalai Lama. His personal journey from debilitating stage fright to unshakable confidence inspired Harry to dedicate his professional life to helping others ‘crack the code’ of optimal performance so that they could fulfill their highest potentials. Now he helps individuals, families, organizations and communities thrive by sharing practical applications of neuroscience research that help ordinary people live extraordinary lives.
He is particularly interested in how cutting-edge research in neuroscience and psychology can inform positive social change — how may we use what we know about how our brains perceive, process and encode experience in service of co-creating a world that works for everyone? How may we use what we know about healing trauma, resolving conflict, and creating interpersonal harmony to help communities — and nations — heal? How may we apply emerging modalities that safely and rapidly help individuals ‘rewire’ their brains for less stress, more joy, greater resilience, optimized creativity — to help mobilize constructive action in service of a more just, peaceful, sustainable world for all?