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Barcelona Neuro Lab Week

10–16 November 2026

Hands-on EEG workshops connect brain imaging with practical workplace topics, with individual neuroimaging sessions available throughout the week.

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Small-group workshop Private 1:1 session

Workshop

Exploring EEG

1-hour workshop Free

Private session

1:1 brain imaging slots

A practitioner-guided EEG experience centred on your own live signals.

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Small-group workshop

Mapping Brainwaves

Attention & Multitasking in the Age of AI

11:00–13:00 MOB Bailèn Free
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Private session

1:1 brain imaging slots

A practitioner-guided EEG experience centred on your own live signals.

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Small-group workshop

Mapping Brainwaves

Stress & Recovery

18:00–20:00 Location TBD Free
Details coming soon

Private session

1:1 brain imaging slots

A practitioner-guided EEG experience centred on your own live signals.

Explore the experience

Private session

1:1 brain imaging slots

A practitioner-guided EEG experience centred on your own live signals.

Explore the experience

Private session

1:1 brain imaging slots

A practitioner-guided EEG experience centred on your own live signals.

Explore the experience

Private session

1:1 brain imaging slots

A practitioner-guided EEG experience centred on your own live signals.

Explore the experience

Synapse Coaching, by Angela Kondinska

Sustainable focus when the work is demanding.

I help people and knowledge-intensive teams understand how pressure is shaping attention, communication, and recovery, and practise more deliberate ways of responding.

The work combines neuroscience-informed learning, facilitation, and coaching. It runs mostly online in English, with Macedonian and bilingual sessions for teams working with international clients.

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Two ways in

Workshops, facilitation and coaching

Organisations and institutions

Neuroscience-informed learning, facilitation, and coaching for workplaces, universities, and professional programmes. Current areas include sustainable performance, focus, recovery, difficult conversations, and decisions under uncertainty.

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1:1 and small groups

For you

Individual coaching and small-group programmes for capable people whose work is starting to cost too much attention, recovery, or life outside it.

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Selected recent work

Delivered for

AI graduate programme

Cognitive load, focus and attention for AI researchers.

An interactive session for 15 master's and PhD students at ELIZA, an AI graduate programme spanning seven universities across Germany. We explored how cognitive load, attention and task-switching shape deep work, and practical ways to organise the day around task types.

Startup founders workshop

Sustainable performance under pressure: founders edition.

Through questions, movement and an attention game, founders experienced how quickly divided attention creates overload and makes important work harder to start. The reflection focused on planning before reacting, protecting attention for demanding work, recognising limits and using deliberate resets before important decisions.

Experience behind the practice

Synapse is an independent practice, built on more than a decade across research, industry, facilitation, coaching, and mentoring.

20+
research and innovation projects contributed to
550+
participants supported through research studies
60+
coaching and mentoring engagements, formal and informal
1000+
participants across workshops delivered or co-delivered
2
organisational research facilities helped establish

These figures describe Angela's career experience before and beyond Synapse Coaching. They are not presented as independent-practice client outcomes.

Work with pressure, instead of only pushing through it.

Demanding work rarely announces itself as a problem. It tends to show up as:

Fragmented attention
Short, tense conversations
Harder decisions
Work that follow you home
A team that gets stuck

I work with the patterns beneath: attention, cognitive load, the capacity of the nervous system, communication, recovery, and the conditions that make a different response easier or harder.

How the work works

The method builds on established cognitive, behavioural, and neuroscience research, agile practice, and good facilitation. It runs the way any real improvement does: as small, reviewable experiments.

Notice
Understand
Practise
Apply
Review

Iterative: each review feeds the next thing worth noticing.

Supported at every level

I collaborate with the person, the team, or the organisation to understand the real problem, then build the right scaffolding, so the noticing, testing, change, and experimentation are supported rather than left to willpower.

A synapse junction: two neurons exchanging signals across the gap

Synapse (noun)

/ˈsɪnæps/

The junction where two neurons communicate. A place where information is exchanged, and where repeated experiences strengthen neural connections, supporting learning, adaptation, and change.

The name reflects the territory of the work: the connections between…

Knowledge Action
Pressure Response
One person Another
Meaningful change rarely comes from insight alone. It becomes possible when people have enough awareness and support to notice a pattern, try a different response, and learn from what happens.

Start with the situation, not the solution.

Whether the concern is yours or your team's, a free introductory call is a short conversation about what is happening, what kind of support might fit, and what falls outside my scope.

Book a free introductory call or email angela@kondinska.com
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