Publishing
Ideas worth keeping.
Books and tools that put whole-mind thinking into your hands — to read on your own time, or to work through with a team. Practical, evidence-informed, and built to be used.
The book
The State You’re In
The Invisible Architecture Shaping Your World
by Wayne Lyell Davies
Your state — how you focus, respond, and recover — quietly shapes every decision you make and every room you walk into. This book makes that invisible architecture visible, and shows you how to work with it rather than against it.
- Plain language, grounded in how attention and stress actually work
- Practical takeaways you can use the same day
- Honest about what change takes — no quick fixes
- Pairs naturally with coaching and the Neuro/State Dynamics assessment
What’s inside
Three ideas the book keeps coming back to
State runs the show
The way you focus and recover sets the ceiling on everything else — long before willpower enters the picture.
It’s built, not born
State isn’t fixed. With the right structure and practice, it’s something you can shape deliberately.
Small levers, real change
You don’t need an overhaul. A handful of well-chosen levers shifts how the rest of your day goes.
Corporate training tool
The State You’re In — the card game.
A facilitated card game that turns the ideas behind our Neuro/State Dynamics assessment into a shared experience for teams. Each card opens a short, structured conversation about focus, stress, and recovery — the things teams rarely have language for until something goes wrong.
- Designed to run inside a workshop or as a standalone session
- Gives a team a common vocabulary in under an hour
- Maps directly to the assessment’s three dimensions
- Facilitator guidance included — no prep degree required
How a session runs
From deck to shared language
Open the conversation
Teams draw cards that surface real moments of focus, overload, and recovery — in their own words.
Find the patterns
A facilitator connects what comes up to the three dimensions the assessment measures.
Leave with levers
The group walks away with a shared language and a few practical things to try the same week.
“The card game did in forty minutes what a year of ‘how are we feeling’ check-ins couldn’t. Suddenly the team had words for it.”— Team lead, after a workshop
Read it, or run it.
Want the book, the card game, or both for your team? Tell us a little about your situation and we’ll point you the right way.