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 State You're In by Wayne Lyell Davies — book cover

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

01

State runs the show

The way you focus and recover sets the ceiling on everything else — long before willpower enters the picture.

02

It’s built, not born

State isn’t fixed. With the right structure and practice, it’s something you can shape deliberately.

03

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

Step 01 — Draw

Open the conversation

Teams draw cards that surface real moments of focus, overload, and recovery — in their own words.

Step 02 — Map

Find the patterns

A facilitator connects what comes up to the three dimensions the assessment measures.

Step 03 — Apply

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.