Neuron Code Tribal Training

09/10/2025

Ever wondered why your productivity system doesn’t always work?

Whether it’s “Get Stuff Done”, the “Eisenhower box”, or “Deep work”, they are all based on cognitively and behaviourally managing your attention to set yourself up for successful task completion.

Of course there is benefit in these systems and some work better than others but where they ultimately fall short is that they don’t take into account the most important factor in the equation.

You.

Your neurology and most importantly the state you are in when you are trying to accomplish the tasks.

Even if intellectually you have the greatest looking system, who you are BEING in the moment as you approach the work will be the deciding factor in whether you get stuff done and (almost more importantly) whether you burn yourself out in the process.

The good news is that you don’t have to learn this stuff intellectually because you already have built in instinctive wiring on how to do it.

Just as a bird doesn’t have to learn how to fly.

Or a wolf (or human) to hunt.

Your system is wired to be in the moment, focused on the just the next step and moving through it without all that extraneous thinking.

That’s how your ancestors survived.

That’s why you are alive.

What you need to be able to do is access that state, get into flow and then (and only then) look at what is compatible in those systems that helps you stay there.

06/10/2025

What has 20 years of formal meditation practice taught me? This is just a few points of my own experience and not exhaustive or comprehensive in any way.

1. I am just getting started. Despite real and immediate benefits like greater mental health, clarity and emotional regulation, I know I am just touching the surface of what is possible.

2. Consistency and practice matter. It really is like the gym. You can’t expect results without doing the work and a little bit goes a long way.

3. Deep experiences, states of consciousness and things happen. They are all normal, natural and also passing. Getting stuck on a peak experience is going backwards.

4. The map is not the territory. What you think it is, is not the thing itself because you can’t think direct experience. You can only experience it.

5. Profound connection isn’t something you earn, it’s who you are.

6. Everything gets better and that’s not the reason you do it. You do it because if you don’t, you’ll miss your life caught up in thinking.

7. There comes a point where you couldn’t imagine life without your practice.

8. You may actually become unbothered about the “big questions” in life. What may have motivated you the in past to practice becomes kind of irrelevant. You can live with uncertainty in a much more powerful way. The word “maybe” is your best friend.

9. What you do in the rest of your life matters. It’s very hard to go deep in meditation when you are being a dick to others (or yourself).

10. It’s also very hard to see when you are being a dick to others (or yourself) if you don’t practice awareness. Oh the irony.

For those that have years of practice (or even just starting out), I’m curious what have you noticed?

02/10/2025

I can’t even begin to describe how influential Jane Goodall was on my life. One of my mother’s greatest heroes and supporters in anthropology, her name was always present in our home.

In my work with Neuron Code Tribal Training, her research and ethos is integral. Most of our inner and (and outer) conflicts come from the reality that we have forgotten we are animals. In fact, the part of your brain that runs the majority of your life decisions is closest related to the chimpanzee.

You can try to intellectualise it away or spiritualise it away but the case remains: you are an animal and that’s ok.

If fighting our animal instincts worked, it would have done it by now (it has had 2,000,000 years).

Our human brain has to work WITH our animal selves, not try to tame it. Then we can both get what we need, including peace on earth.

“We’re not, after all, separate from the animal kingdom. We’re part of it.”-Jane Goodall.

02/05/2025

When I tell people I grew up in the jungles of Papua New Guinea with a “lost” tribe, people genuinely don’t believe me.

Sometimes I have to wear the uniform of the modern world so my words will land.

Then I speak about what it is to be part of the animal kingdom.

Why most of your problems cannot actually be solved by talking about them in therapy.

Why your unconscious mind wants you to live in line your TRUE nature as human and connected with your ancestral wisdom.

Why parents, teachers and society had no idea about this and taught you to run away from yourself.

How it can all be easier than you think.

And while there are some people that call me weird and crazy.

I love them anyway.

The rest?

The people that are ready to live in a way that honours their true primal needs without destroying themselves and the earth?

You are my TRIBE.

02/05/2025

When I tell people I grew up in the jungles of Papua New Guinea with a “lost” tribe, people genuinely don’t believe me.

Sometimes I have to wear the uniform of the modern world so my words will land.

Then I speak about what it is to be part of the animal kingdom.

Why most of your problems cannot actually be solved by talking about them in therapy.

Why your unconscious mind wants you to live in line your TRUE nature as human and connected with your ancestral wisdom.

Why parents, teachers and society had no idea about this and taught you to run away from yourself.

How it can all be easier than you think.

And while there are some people that call me weird and crazy.

I love them anyway.

The rest?

The people that are ready to live in a way that honours their true primal needs without destroying themselves and the earth?

You are my TRIBE:

07/04/2025

Imagine this:

You know exactly what you are here for.

You know exactly what to do.

You are supported by other humans who know the same.

Your needs are our task.

Our needs are yours.

We all fit together and in the greater ecosystem perfectly.

Everybody gets what they give.

Nobody goes hungry.

Tribe is everything.

07/04/2025

Tribe is everything.

02/04/2025

Two of the most important people in my life.

My warrior mama and OG shaman that raised me.

She taught me how to channel my primal violence into creation through love.

He taught me how to connect with natural magic, enter altered states and tell great stories.

Also how to use a bow and arrow.

My parents entrusted me to them.

I am grateful for the fruits of all the initiations that are coming into being today.

Thank you.

01/04/2025

This is just one example of how complex societies try to “deal away” with the reality that you are living in an environment far removed from what you are actually built for.

Interestingly, when you see this, you can design a life within the confines of modern society that actually allows you to THRIVE rather than just survive.

Imagine you are a tiger in a zoo.

Tiny cage.

Being fed salad.

You would be forgiven if anaemia and frustration was your predominant experience.

But you are not a trapped tiger.

You are an animal with resources that the tiger does not have.

It’s not your fault.

But it is your responsibility.

You get to choose.

30/03/2025

So many of the brilliantly marketed techniques and methods of hypnotherapy, coaching, neo-shamanic healing, energy work, belief shifting etc aren’t there to sell you the change you want, they are there to sell the experience.

I would never say that the products are spiritual or psychological highs masquerading as inner work.

Nope. I would NEVER say that.😉

People who get something from these often get the change not because of some super special sexy new (or “ancient”) magical method….but despite it.

Which is awesome.

Seriously.

Aaaaand…

Be open to the possibility that there is something else going on.

The human-animal does something that they cannot seem to change on thier own.

“Unconsciously”

Goes to someone that does something.

They experience a shift in their psycho-physiology.

Their attention is guided in particular ways.

That part of them that does the thing stops, does it differently or in another more pleasing way.

They attribute this change to the technique coach, therapist or shaman (which are all highly important factors by the way).

But the REAL magic.

The actual thing that makes the thing work.

Is in the human-animal.

It is in thier own capacity for change.

OUR capacity for change.

There are principles at work that go all the way back to BEFORE the dawn of humanity.

And through our very neurobiology.

Once you get these…

You can literally do anything you want (as long as you follow the principles and patterns).

And get the change.

You can wear your cool hat.

Funky clothes.

Be as “evidence based” as you want.

Or wild and magical as you need to be.

And still be congruent.

Knowing that you KNOW how you do what you do and why it works.

Makes all the difference.

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27/03/2025

You are more animal than rational.

In fact, humans generally aren’t rational.

Most of the time we rationalise our animal behaviours in fancy ways and call them “choices”.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

That’s pretty much a fiction.

One guiding principle in the way I work is to actually deal with them and not demonise, psycho-babble or spiritual bypass it all away.

This is what it means to live well.

We all have inner conflicts around our animal drives.
S*x.
Food.
Power/Status.

These are all normal, healthy and important to honour.
We get ourselves in trouble when we believe we need to “tame” our animal selves.

In fact, I will go so far as to say we are at our most spiritual when we have our animal selves working well WITH our rational selves in the most ecological way where we get what we need without sacrificing our well-being, the environment or our species.

This is an ongoing negotiation.

Not an “animal bad, rational good” situation.

But fully HUMAN.

Present with our needs in a way that actually works for us, not against us.

Because what is stranger than an animal that turns against itself?
What is more dangerous than an animal that pretends it isn’t?

07/03/2025

I love this guy.

He’s been through some s**t.

Come out the other side.

Mind clear.

Heart full.

Kicking ass

Taking names.

Focused on one thing and one thing only.

To be the fullest expression of himself.

That means.

To love.

Be loved.

Invite others to Heal.

Learn.

Grow.

Groove.

And have an absolute blast doing it.

Because, why not?

The fun is just beginning.

So join him.

On the next leg of the hypnotic hero’s journey.

I guarantee.

You won’t regret