Positive Intelligence®

Over the course of seven weeks, the program guides you step by step through the most important building blocks of mental fitness:

Week 1 – Self-control and PQ repetitions. You’ll establish a short routine that energizes your “Sage” (your positive mindset) – and brings you out of autopilot and back into conscious self-control.

Week 2 – The Judge. You’ll recognize how your inner judge operates, the pressure it creates – and develop a simple, practical daily routine to spot it in time.

Week 3 – Accomplice Saboteurs. You’ll identify your two strongest supporting saboteurs and learn to recognize their typical patterns and counter them effectively.

Week 4 – Empathy. You’ll experience the power of genuine empathy – toward yourself and others. One of the most effective counterforces to the saboteurs.

Week 5 – Sage Perspective: Exploration and Innovation. You’ll learn to embrace difficult situations and transform them into opportunities – through curious exploration rather than automatic reactions.

Week 6 – Sage Perspective: Activation. You’ll experience how ease and flow enter your actions when you act from the Sage energy rather than from Saboteur mode.

Week 7 – Sage Perspective: Navigating. You’ll sense what’s truly important to you and align your decisions accordingly – with the clarity that has emerged over the first few weeks.

It’s about habits, not insights. Most training programs provide short-term “aha” moments that quickly fade in everyday life. PQ, on the other hand, builds new neural pathways through repetition – that’s why it’s called mental fitness. Like physical fitness, it is developed through regular practice, not through a one-time insight.

It addresses the root causes, not the symptoms. Instead of tackling individual stressful situations, PQ focuses on the common denominator – the self-sabotage patterns underlying many different symptoms.

It is scientifically grounded. The methodology is based on research involving over a million participants worldwide, and its effectiveness is measurable – including verifiable changes on MRI scans.

It’s one system, many applications. What you learn in the first seven weeks can then be applied to a wide variety of topics – from conflicts and leadership to relationships and parenting.

This program is right for you if three things align:
First: You’re serious about making a real change in your stress levels and effectiveness – not just feeling a little less pressure, but truly dealing with stress in a fundamentally different way.
Second: You’re looking for a scientifically sound, proven path to get there – instead of yet another method you’ll try that fizzles out after three weeks.
Third: You’re willing to actively practice during the first few weeks. Mental patterns that have become second nature over the years won’t disappear in a week – but with just a few minutes of practice each day, they’ll change surprisingly quickly.

Yes – but only briefly. A brief flash of pain when your hand touches a hot stove is an important warning. The problem arises when your hand stays on the stove: the useful warning turns into harm. That’s exactly what saboteurs do to our emotions – they prolong the state of alarm long after the signal has served its purpose.
In this program, you’ll learn to use unpleasant emotions for what they are: brief warnings. And then to quickly shift to the part of your mind that responds to challenges with clarity, creativity, and calm.

One module per week lasting about an hour, plus three to four minutes of audio exercises each day and short 10-second exercises via the app. That may sound like a lot, but it’s less than 2% of your waking hours.
By comparison, your self-sabotage habits are currently costing you far more than 2% – in energy, concentration, sleep, and quality of life. The seven-week investment will pay off many times in the months and years to come.

Thanks to modern imaging – especially functional magnetic resonance imaging – researchers can now observe which brain regions are active during specific thoughts or emotions. This reveals that Saboteur activity and Sage activity occur in different areas of the brain.

The Survival Region: Your Saboteurs. Saboteur voices originate primarily in the brainstem, the limbic system, and parts of the left hemisphere. They generate stress, worry, self-doubt, anger, and guilt – emotions that alert us to danger in the short term but obscure our judgment when they’re constantly active.

The Growth Region: Your Sage. Your “Wise One” resides in the medial prefrontal cortex, in the so-called empathy circuit, and in parts of the right hemisphere. This is where empathy, compassion, curiosity, and creative joy arise – along with the calm, clear action that truly sustains you in complex situations. When this area is activated, your body releases endorphins that counteract the stress hormone cortisol.

The key term here is neuroplasticity. Your brain consists of neurons connected to one another via synapses. When a signal passes through, it can take different paths – but every time a specific path is used, that connection strengthens. This is how neural pathways form: routes that the signal is more likely to take the next time.
That’s why ingrained “saboteur” reactions happen so automatically. And it’s also the key to change: With every conscious “Sage” reaction, you strengthen an alternative pathway. That’s exactly what the short 10-second PQ exercises are designed for – they interrupt the old automatic response and create a new pathway.
Over time, these new pathways become so strong that they become your first reaction. Mental fitness, then, is not a matter of understanding, but of practice – just like building muscle. That’s the beauty of it: If you practice regularly, you’ll demonstrably get stronger.

Saboteurs have an honorable past: They originally emerged to ensure our survival. They warned our ancestors about the saber-toothed tiger – and warned us, when we were children, about real or perceived threats to our physical or emotional safety.
The problem: These protective patterns have taken on a life of their own. What began as a protective mechanism often continues on autopilot in adult life – even when there is no longer anything to protect. The underlying neural pathways are deeply ingrained, and when triggered, the saboteurs “hijack” our thoughts, feelings, and actions before we even realize it.
Mental fitness means recognizing these patterns, reducing their power, and gradually replacing them with new, freer responses.