CYBERMINDZ: MINDING CYBER PROFESSIONALS’ MENTAL HEALTH by Stuart Corner
Peter Coroneos, founder of Cybermindz, a charity dedicated to the mental health of cybersecurity professionals, has been fascinated by the human brain since childhood. He was only 10 years old when a neuroscientist uncle took Coroneos into a laboratory and showed him pickled brains in jars.
T
hat interest has been channelled into a
in particular, the ability to maintain a sense of
life-long focus on his own mental health
equilibrium, even in very trying circumstances.
— he has been practicing meditation for 45 years — and he turned his attention to
“These are skills I’ve applied in my own professional
the mental health of others in 2013 when
career, but under the radar. When I left the IIA, I
he founded Serenityworks, a couple of years after
realised this was something I could share. The game
stepping down after a 13 year stint as CEO of the
changer was really research around neuroplasticity,
Australian Internet Industry Association (IIA).
which started coming around about 2007 when the first papers were being published.”
“I was thinking about what I might do,” he told Women in Security Magazine. “And I started to see some
Serenityworks offers a range of mentoring, stress
scientific reports come out around the neurological
reduction and meditation programs to individuals
changes that occur in long term meditators: improved
and teams in any industry, and from that came
immunity, better emotional balance — things
Cybermindz, founded in 2022.
that I knew, subjectively, were true for me, — and,
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