I'll unpack the collection of bullets in subsequent posts, but I feel a need to disseminate this information now. Again, apologies for ... bulleted list; do hope you find it helpful.
(Oh, yeah, um, it's a long-ish post. Read when brain fresh and steamy coffee tickles nose hairs :)
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Workshop: Raising the Whole-Brain Child
Academic discipline: Interpersonal Neurobiology
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Book:
Archaeology of the Mind by ; Subcortical
processes and how they influence behavior
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Book: The Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology: An Integrative Handbook of the Mind, by Dan Siegel
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- What is the mind? Definition?
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- Q: What are you trying to develop in your
students? A: A strong, healthy, creative mind
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The model: Separate things (brain/CNS, body
structures) working together as a functional whole; the “embodied brain”
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- Mind - Brain - (Interpersonal)
Relationship
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Parents share information (energy flow) in such
a way that children can self-regulate and learn
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Energy, information flow – basic units; they are
both relational and embodied
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- Relationships shape your brain and mental
experience
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- Emergence – mind-regulatory process in a self-organized
system;
- - Emergence arises from within and returns to the
system to regulate it
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Interior of body - lamina
I - Vagus
nerve - limbic system - RT
hemisphere
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3 brains: stomach brain, heart brain, head brain
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Book:
Polyvagal Theory by ;
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Think
tank: Garrison Institute
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Spectrum: chaos -
integration - rigidity
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- DSM is a book describing impaired integration
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Integrative fibers of the brain can grow with
mindfulness training
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Integrative fibers connect neocortex with limbic
system
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Promoting generation of integrative fibers
promotes self-regulation
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SIFTing through the experience/mind with kids so
as to help them reflect on the internal world
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Sensations
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Images
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Feelings
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Thoughts
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Honoring differences - integration - promoting
linkages
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Book:
Mindsight, Siegel, 9 domains of integration
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Mindsight
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Inside/insight/empathy
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Develop this as a skill to help kids integrate
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Book:
The Master and His Emissary, Ian McGilchrist; the hemispheric difference is not
so important vis-a-vis what they do as it is with respect to who they shape you
be
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Moments of challenge are the deepest
opportunities to optimize integration
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RT hemisphere is indicative of internal
affective (emotional) state
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Eye contact
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Facial expression
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Body posture
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Gestures
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Timing
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Intensity
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Strategy:
When high emotion, connect (w/ RT brain), then redirect (w/ LT brain)
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Strategy:
When high emotion, the whole organism calms down when LT brain is used to name
the feeling (Name it to tame it)
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Strategy:
Taking control of the images in our mind (Altering energy patterns in the brain
to help the child control mental landscape)
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To teach regulation, teach
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Monitoring
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Modification
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- Implicit memory (dissociation, high adrenaline)
vs. explicit memory
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- Narrative integration
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2 circuits in the brain
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Observing circuit (witnessing and narrating)
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Experiential circuit
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Integration
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Bi-lateral
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Vertical
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Narrative
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State/consciousness integration
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Integration made visible is kindness and
compassion
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State integration/consciousness
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A state of knowing
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That which is known
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Ex: anger: 1) awareness of anger; 2) feeling of
anger
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Exercise to do with kids to structure and
integrate consciousness
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Strategy:
Let the clouds of emotion roll by
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- The science of how energy flows and is modulated
by consciousness
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Emotion – shifts in integration
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Positive emotion - negative emotion (integration toward
emotional regulation)
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Book:
Mothers and Others by Sarah Hrdy; alloparenting, which is “it takes a village”
concept to raise a healthy child; nuclear family does not provide enough
support to raise healthy children
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Adolescence
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Decrease in neurons (gray matter)
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Increase in myelination of new circuits (white
matter)
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Increase in neuronal integration
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Huge increase in dopamine
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Future of planet is teenagers
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Instead of contradicting and fighting teens,
instead of encouraging competition amongst each other, task them to take on
challenges together with support of adults, while they separate from parents
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Strategy:
Increase the family fun factor
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Playfulness creates integration
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Strategy:
Connect through conflict
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Book:
Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our
Lives -- How Your Friends' Friends' Friends Affect Everything You Feel, Think,
and Do,
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What’s the new human story? The human being has
evolved because of collaboration. Einstein, “The optical illusion of our
separateness.”
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3G, 2P: gratitude, generosity, giving to people
and planet
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Siegel’s brain in a fist
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The prefrontal cortex touches the brain stem
(autonomic processes: heartbeat, breathing, sleep regulation) and the limbic
system (feeling, fight, flight, freeze, faint)
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Secure attachment is made possible by
integrative capacity of prefrontal cortex
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Regulates the body
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Calms fears
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Self-insight
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Empathy
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Morality
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Intuition
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A child’s 3 Ss lead to 4th S: Secure
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Seen
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Soothed
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Safe
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