Retirement provides you with an excellent opportunity to create a meaningful life. How does one manage this transition? Suzette Serfontein unpacks the Mind Moves® Institute’s neuroscience-based Rewire to Retire programme - helping you optimise your mindset, understand your personal brain dominance profile, prime your brain through targeted movement, and successfully adapt to this new life phase. Sponsored content.

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In ep. 113 of the weekly podcast series Calm, Clear and Helpful, Rewire to Retire programme director Suzette Serfontein discusses

• how her circumstances as an independent facilitator and consultant literally changed overnight during the Covid-19  pandemic

• why planning for the emotional and mental impact of retirement is just as important as financial planning

• the neuroscience-based foundation of the Rewire to Retire programme

• the effect an individual’s retirement may have on their partner and family (if applicable)

• what biomimicry and brain plasticity entail

• the objectives and content of the 4 modules of the Rewire to Retire programme:
  1 Retirement: disaster or reinvention?

  2 Brain wiring: Understanding behaviour

  3 Knowing yourself and your partner

  4 Taking action

• a technique assisting participants to work on their mindset and reduce overwhelm

• whether your brain “wears out”

• how participants’ personal brain dominance profiles, included in the programme, help them understand their own and their partners’ innate programming

• how Mind Moves ensure clear thinking, optimise performance, lower stress levels and promote mental health

• the difference between spontaneous movements and strenuous exercise

• why it’s essential to rediscover your purpose and turn it into action through a goal-setting process.

In this podcast episode Suzette mentions Dr. Hannetjie van Zyl-Edeling, Dr. Riley Moynes, the Old Coots, and Dr. Melodie de Jager from the Mind Moves® Institute.

Link to the Mind Move called Rise and Shine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4387qvw_e-4

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The Rewire to Retire programme

This programme from the stable of the Mind Moves® Institute is an interactive, online or face-to-face programme offered to organisations as well as private individuals. The next programme takes place in May 2023.

Website: http://www.rewiretoretire.co.za/

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Contact details

Suzette Serfontein is the programme director of Rewire to Retire. She is  a licensed Mind Dynamix Instrument Accredited Practitioner (MDPiAP) certified by the Mind Moves® Institute (MMI) and endorsed by the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) as well as the International Coaching Federation (ICF). She is also a licensed facilitator for the Senior Mind Moves wellness programme for the elderly, certified by the Mind Moves® Institute (SA). Suzette is based in Johannesburg.

Website: http://www.rewiretoretire.co.za/

Email address: suzette@rewiretoretire.co.za

If you’re intrigued by the idea of the Mind Dynamix “operating manual” for your one-of-a-kind brain, you’ll find Dr. Melodie de Jager’s explanation here.

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Music by Mart-Marie Snyman

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