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title: "Keynote: SIOPSA Conference 2022"
description: "'Organizations as fortresses against the mental pandemic: Can we achieve this by pulling neuroscience and systems thinking into organizational psychology?'"
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# [Keynote: SIOPSA Conference 2022](https://blog.neurozone.com/keynote-siopsa-conference-2022)

 Written by [Dr Etienne van der Walt](https://blog.neurozone.com/author/dr-etienne-van-der-walt) | Jul 19, 2022 2:36:52 PM

In this keynote, Dr Etienne van der Walt discusses the following:

- What is the mental pandemic?
- How can Systems Thinking be applied in organizations?
- What is applied neuroscience and how can we use it to improve interventions?
- The importance of the Baseline Relaxed physiological State (BRPS) 
    - The optimum biological state to overcome challenges: It yields a low heart rate, low blood pressure, enhanced metabolism, and activates immune system.
- What is Resilience? (It is not tenacity or grit).
- What is Collective Resilience?
- The role that collective purpose plays in finding meaning at work
- Early data trends : Different types of Diversity 
    - Social Diversity
    - Cognitive Diversity
    - Educational Diversity
    - Cultural Diversity
    - Problem-solving Diversity

 

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