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Dr. Elnur Gajiev

Hi, I'm Dr. El
Creative Psychologist
Educator & Fulbright Scholar
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Creative Psychologist, Educator, & Wellness Consultant
I Help Folks Who Do Good, Do So Sustainably Well
Integrating Neuroscience, Mindfulness, & Coaching

23/07/2026

Heard this absolutely breathtaking quote from Aisling Leonard-Curtin during her phenomenal workshop at this past week, and the poetry of it has stayed with me since.

Coming back into practice with clients this week, it felt so evident that so many of our struggles and sufferings are deeply interwoven with what matters to us most.

And if we can kindly see and recognize that, perhaps we can be a bit more compassionate with how we choose to move through our worlds — internal & external.

Many thanks to Association for Contextual Behavioral Science for organizing such a meaningful event that continues to ripple all around the world.

Merci, mes amis!

21/07/2026

The gift of laughter shared.

Thankful for for bringing together such phenomenal folks to learn, grow, & practice all kinds of flexibility with.

Thankful for Mindfulness with Shamash for being such a positive buoy throughout these days.

And thankful for the balancing practice of holding what's important with the gravity it deserves, while holding ourselves ever so lightly.

Here's to a few more laughs along the way.
😄

17/07/2026

Sights, sounds, insights, & rounds from Day 1 of aka my favorite gathering of weirdly wonderful psychological humans.

What a gift to return to this community after over a decade since my last ACBS event — digging into functional behavioral analysis across countless languages, while breathing deep, laughing full, feeling compassionately, and coming back to what matters most.

Excited for what's to come in Day 2,
including a presentation by yours truly.
🤓

19/06/2026

We learn by doing.

By doing the uncomfortable, the challenging, & the downright audacious.

Coming into Techstars Startup Weekend Valencia, I wasn't expecting to pitch an idea — let alone gather an incredible team of brilliant, kind, & tenacious individuals from all walks of life to build a tool that supports the resilience, well-being, & decision-making of entrepreneurs trying to make a lasting impact in the world.

I was simply intending to be a fly on the wall: to observe what it's like to go through the entire journey of taking an idea from inception to expression to pitching for investments, all within a 54-hour window.

I figured it'd be a good way to broaden my empathy & understanding of the experiences that my clients face on a regular basis.

But and the team at startupweekendvalencia had other plans for me.

At their nudging, I decided to pitch an idea near & dear to me — a way to support social entrepreneurs and mission-driven founders catch burnout upstream, to aid them in recentering & regulating their nervous systems in the moment, and to help them align their decisions with their unique values, principles, & missions.

We wracked our brains, and our Claude/GPT token limits, interviewing live founders and validating our hypothesis.

We learned. & learned. & learned some more.

Neurons fired, wired, inquired, & perspired together.

I learned that I’ve got a good bit more to learn about leading a team under so much uncertainty.

Talk about empathy, especially at a time like this.

Yet, I also learned about the extreme value of Community.

How this is one of the main things founders, entrepreneurs, & change-makers are seeking.

How, even in the midst of a competitive event, we delighted in the collaborative spirit of sharing our gifts, backgrounds, insights, jokes, & perspectives with one another.

How an Irish historian, an Italian quantum physicist, a Ghanian computer scientist, and an Azerbaijani psychologist can come together in a shoreside town in Spain to dream of a better way of relating to our work and the impact it can have in this world.

No flies were left on walls that weekend.

We were in it, fully.

Pitching, pivoting, & learning.

11/06/2026

Lately, I've noticed the same conversation surfacing across industries.

Founders. Firms. Executives. Ecosystems.

Many are asking some version of:
"How do we use AI more effectively?"

It's an important question.

But in many cases, we're asking it before we've identified what's actually slowing the work down.

Because yes, AI can dramatically increase the volume of ideas, content, tasks, analyses, drafts, and outputs moving through a system.

But if the real constraint is an overwhelmed decision-maker, an unclear approval process, competing priorities, unclear ownership, or a difficult conversation no one wants to have, then more output simply gets us to the same bottleneck faster.

The result often deceptively looks like progress:
More documents. More drafts. More information. More activity.
Yet the work itself remains stuck.

Before adding another tool, it can be helpful to ask:
• What is the most important outcome right now?
• Where does work consistently slow down?
• What is creating that friction?
• What would meaningfully reduce it?

Sometimes the next breakthrough isn't another AI workflow.

Sometimes it's a clearer decision.
A stronger system.
A more sustainable way of working.

Technology can accelerate movement.
While clarity determines our direction.

Try out the prompt in the caption below to see how you can best identify, address, & resolve your bottleneck before ramping up.
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25/05/2026

Being back in NY offers the beautiful opportunity to meet with a few clients in person — to walk, to talk, to sit and stir in the depths of the growth & challenge that compels us now.

I am blessed to share in such conversations with wondrous humans who continuously inspire me with their willingness to dig deeper, to feel further, to act bolder, & to love broader — all of which ripples into their work, their health, their relationships, and their lives.

As a way of honoring this work, I've come to understand that my brain likes to integrate these themes in a poetic fashion, deepening their imprint on me, and perhaps conveying a shared experience of being human to all of you.

And so, this is for you.
Thank you for growing as you do.

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What Are We Pining For?

For peace, for presence
for a passion & romance
that fills our palms full
and our hearts in wonder

For a trusting of our own
intuition, wisdom & power
For a flower formed in our
gardens, which we did not plant,
which is to say, for divine delight.

For a validation that this fleeting
existence can be ever so brilliant
if we so choose it.

For this.

18/05/2026

Hi, I'm Dr. El 👋

Some of you have been here for a while, while some of you may have just arrived.

Either way: Welcome.

I wanted to reintroduce myself and share a sense of this new chapter of my work.

As a clinical psychologist, consultant, educator, & speaker, I'm dedicated to helping those who want to do good, do it well.

What does this mean?
It means I support impact-driven leaders, entrepreneurs, creatives, teams, organizations, funds, & firms in scaling their work sustainably through leveraging insights from neuroscience, psychology, systems thinking, mindfulness and contemplative practices.

The truth is: Meaningful work asks a lot of us.

It asks us to embody presence under pressure.
To hold vision with vitality.
To make decisions in uncertainty.
To care deeply without carrying it all ourselves.
To build systems that support the people & processes that matter most.
To show up, sustainably.

I've honed an evolving integrative approach that weaves together nervous system mastery, internal alignment practices, sustainable systems, and impersonal/relational intelligence.

Through coaching & counseling, organizational consulting, speaking & workshops, and Presence OS, I help folks like you build the inner & outer conditions for meaningful, sustainable impact.

I recently refreshed Dr-El.com to better reflect this new chapter of growth.

You can visit my website to learn more about my approach, explore ways to work together, and sign up for my newsletters:

🌱 Presence & Purpose — for sustainable leadership, applied psychology, & neuroscience-informed tools.

🌱 Weaving Wisdoms — for reflective stories, practices, & reminders for meaningful growth.

As always, reach out to connect more and please keep growing. I'm grateful you’re here.

Kindly,
Dr. El
🖖

02/06/2025

Pushing harder isn’t always the answer.

Sometimes, it’s what breaks us.

Your nervous system is the foundation of sustainable growth—and it has limits.

When you stretch with intention, you grow.

When you overextend, you risk snapping.

Here’s how I guide my clients to check in with themselves:

🟢 Stretch → Feels challenging and energizing

🟡 Edge → Signals discomfort or strain

🔴 Snap → You’re drained, unfocused, or nearing burnout

Let’s stop glorifying burnout and start honoring our natural growth pace.

💬 Let me know in the comments below: where are you at today?
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26/05/2025

What are you moving toward today?

Not just what’s on your list.
Not what your calendar says is urgent.

But underneath it all—what’s it for?

🧠 Our brains love plans.
But our nervous systems crave direction.

And when things get noisy—aka compounding emails, meetings, tasks, tabs—it’s easy to lose sight of what we’re actually building toward.

So here’s a gentle reset:
🔶 Take one thing on your list.
🔶 Ask: Why does this matter?
🔶 Then ask: What’s one step closer to that why?

The goal isn’t to finish everything.
It’s to move meaningfully—
even just one breath, one block, one brave step closer.

📌 Save this for when your day feels scattered.

💬 And tell me please: What are you moving toward today?

21/05/2025

Feeling scattered? I got you.

Cognitive overwhelm is real—especially for those of us who are building, creating, leading, and scaling while simultaneously navigating complexity.

When we’re mentally scattered, it’s often because we’re locked in anticipation or rumination.

From a neuropsychological perspective, this fuels overthinking and pulls us out of the present.

To interrupt this cycle, we need to engage the sensory pathways, which operate only in the here and now.

That’s where the 5-4-3-2-1 Method comes in.

It helps us return to the present moment using our five senses.

This quick grounding practice invites you to focus on:
👁️ 5 things you can see
👂 4 sounds you can hear
🖐️ 3 things you can touch
👃 2 things you can smell
👄 1 thing you can taste

In under two minutes, this helps regulate your nervous system, shift attention back to the present, and improve emotional and cognitive functioning.

I use this practice regularly—with clients, teams, and myself.

📌 Save or bookmark this post to return to when focus fades or anxiety spikes.

📩 For more neuroscientific insights to foster your well-being and success, follow along and subscribe to our thriving newsletter: Presence&Purpose.

👇 I’d love to hear: What grounding tools help you reset and refocus throughout your day?

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