The Fine Art of Talking To Yourself (Conversation #6 - Agency and Presence)

Reclaim your sense of Agency and deepen your Presence to strengthen how you navigate your life, your emotions, and your choices.
(Note: the event is in English)

● Discover how agency shapes your decisions, motivation, and self-confidence
● Learn why presence is the foundation of intentional action
● Understand how psychology and neuroscience explain autonomous vs. reactive behavior
● Practice simple tools to increase authorship, reduce reactivity, and act with clarity

Join Scorselo, coach-psychologist (scorselo.com), and Khirug, coach-neuroscientist (triunitymethod.com), for the sixth event in The Fine Art of Talking to Yourself series.

This time, we turn to Agency — the fundamental experience that “I am the one doing this.”
Agency collapses when we operate on autopilot, under stress, or under the influence of external pressure; it strengthens when attention, emotion, and action come into alignment. Presence is the state that makes this alignment possible.

• How the brain generates the feeling of authorship over your actions
• Why agency fluctuates depending on stress, emotion, attention, and context
• What neuroscience and psychology reveal about autonomous vs. agentic states
• How presence helps you shift from reactive behavior to intentional action

In a world filled with pressure, distraction, and constant demands, many people feel less like active agents and more like responders — pushed by circumstance rather than guided by inner intention.

Yet agency is not fixed. It is a trainable capacity built through awareness, self-regulation, and the ability to inhabit the present moment.

This evening helps you understand how agency is formed, how it is lost, and how you can strengthen it through deliberate practice. You’ll learn to use presence not only to regain authorship but also to create actions that feel aligned and grounded.

Prior to the event, all participants are invited to take part anonymously in a short ArtOfThinking.ai voice reflection exercise.
Using the invitation code you will receive after registration, you can record a one-minute spontaneous reflection on your current sense of agency — no preparation needed.

Your anonymous reflections will be synthesized by AI and shared during the event as a collective mirror of how we experience agency and presence in daily life.
This is optional but offers a clear, insightful glimpse into how technology can support deeper self-awareness.

● Socratic-style discussion — clear, relatable insights from psychology and neuroscience
● Hands-on participation — short experiential practices and group reflection
● Small group setting — limited to 40 participants for a personal, interactive atmosphere

Date: December 9, 2025 (Tuesday)
Duration: 2 hours (doors open at 18:45, the talk starts at 19:00)
Location: Buurthuis-Witte Boei, Kleine Wittenburgerstraat 201, 1018 LT Amsterdam
Event language: English
Cost: €19.95

Don’t miss this opportunity to strengthen your ability to act with clarity, intention, and presence — and to become the author of your own behavior.

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