Facilitating groups that are experiencing tension and conflict can be a challenging task. By understanding social norms, the biology of our sympathetic and parasympathetic systems, and applying lessons from polyvagal theory, facilitators can create a safe and productive space for resolving conflicts and promoting harmony within groups.
Read MoreCo-sponsored by Children and Screens with Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory, the second Digital Media and Developing Minds national interdisciplinary conference brought together scientists and researchers in the fields of neuroscience, pediatrics, psychiatry, psychology, communications, education, public health, epidemiology and others to:
Continue a dialogue between medical researchers and those in the social sciences field who study media effects.
Learn and exchange ideas on the cognitive, mental, physical and social impacts of digital media on youth, families, culture, and learning.
Identify and report on state-of-the-art empirical research on the impact of digital media on developing minds (i.e. toddlers, children, and adolescents).
Put to use new medically-based research techniques to use studying the potential impact of media use on children’s developing minds.
Meet and network with funders, educators, and industry leaders.
Qualify to submit proposals for seed funding for collaborative, interdisciplinary research immediately following the conference.
Learn more at: www.childrenandscreens.com/second-national-congress/
To acquire a new skill, we may follow a recipe, or maybe we cook by instinct and follow our gut. Either way it requires us to begin. From there, the path involves cultivating three these three things. Let’s define each of these elements in the context of being a service professional learning something new.
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Something in the way our brain operates tells us about our ability to imagine and perceive ourselves. So, what makes me “Me” and what makes you ”You”? And where, exactly, is the sense of self located in the brain?
The "mind" and "self" were formerly the domain of philosophers and priests.
But in this hour of Radiolab http://www.radiolab.com, neurologists lead the charge on profound questions like, "How does the brain make me?"
The hosts visit U.C. San Diego neurologist, V.S.Ramachandran who describes the evolution of human consciousness… or the difference between the way we think of some abstraction, like love, and the way a baboon thinks of a rear end.
Stage fright. Butterflies in the stomach. Cold feet. Whatever name you use for the feeling, they all describe the same thing — the fear of failing publicly. So, how can graphic recorders effectively balance the flood of new information and process those ethereal ideas in concrete visual form, even while quietly freaking out?
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 Click the link for local broadcast times and to register: We will be talking about the visual, must-know, brain-based techniques that you need as a facilitator, consultant, teacher or coach in order to increase the success of your clients and students, while making you look like a rockstar. |
We often refer to graphic recording as a magic trick: We watch a human pull images from thin air, grabbing pictures and ideas from the vapor of conversation and giving them physical form. This NY Times article gives insight on why the physical performance of illusion is so captivating and how the brain uses neural tricks to do this: approximating, cutting corners, instantaneously and subconsciously choosing what to “see” and what to let pass.This article profiles a whole new dimension of evolutionary complexity has now emerged from a cross-species study led by Dr. Seth Grant at the Sanger Institute in England.
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Rather than throw both brains out with the bathwater (what a badly mixed metaphor!) how best do we design collaborative projects and discussions that accommodate all brains, whether wily, worldly or wise?
The studies are analyzed in a new edition of a neurology book, “Progress in Brain Research.”
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