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What Will Be Covered In This Workshop :
Exercise
- Will you age like Jim or like Frank?
- Can you turn Jim to Frank?
- Is there one factor that predicts how well you will age?
- Can exercise treat brain disorders?
- Are the cognitive blessings of exercise only for the elderly?
- Can we make a comeback?
- What if schools had recess twice a day
- What if we had treadmills in classrooms and cubicles?
- How to boost the collective brain power of an organization
- Improving problem-solving abilities
- Improving memory
- Reducing the risk of a debilitating stroke or Alzheimer’s disease
Survival
- New Rules for Survival
- Meet your Brain
- You have three brains
- The human brain evolved
Wiring
- What happens in the brain as it is learning
- What is the enormous role of experience in brain development?
- Why identical twins having identical experience will not emerge with identical brains
- The Jennifer Aniston neuron
- DNA, neuron & the going-ons inside your brain
- Is the human brain fully constructed at birth?
- Are brains of all kids evenly developed?
- Is every brain really wired differently?
- Is human intellect multifaceted?
- Mapping the brain
- Do smaller, more intimate schools crate better learning environments?
- The advanced Theory of Mind skills
Attention
- Can I have your attention please?
- Memory, interest, awareness and red alert
- What gets our attention?
- Meaning before detail
- Can the brain multitask?
- Giving the brain a break
- The 10 Minute Rule for lectures, sermons, boardrooms, sales pitches, sales stories
Short Term Memory
- The brain has many types of memory systems.
- One type follows four stages of processing: encoding, storing,retrieving & forgetting.
- How do people recall things?
- Why repeat to remember
- Information coming into your brain is immediately split into fragments that are sent to different regions of the cortex for storage.
- Can we investigate storage separately from retrieval?
- Memory & mumbo jumbo
- Where do memories go?
- Sliced & diced
- Automatic or stick shift?
- The electric slide
- Cracking the code
- 3 ways to enhance memory retrieval
- The importance of the first few seconds of learning
- How to improve your eat to b of remembering something
Long-term Memory
- Why remember to repeat
- Most memories disappear within minutes
- Surviving the fragile period
- Fixing a memory in the cortex
- Consolidation
- Retrieval
- Mind the Gap
- Repetition
- Space out the input
- Sparking Interest
- A chatty marriage
- Memories on the move
- The realities of memories
- Minutes & hours, days and weeks, years and years
- How to make long-term memory more reliable
- How to use the information to conquer the classroom or boardroom
Sleep
- Sleep well, think well
- While you sleep…
- The vigorous rhythmical activity of your neurons
- Are you a lark or an owl
- promote napping
- Sleeping on it
- Sleep loss = brain drain
- Match chronotypes
- Repercussions of loss of sleep
Stress
- Stressed brains don’t learn the same way
- Effects of acute & chronic stress
- Helplessness & lack of control
- Stress & health
- From sniffles to forgetfulness
- How stress hurts learning
- Effects of adrenaline on blood vessels
- Effects of cortisol on the cells of the hippocampus
- A genetic buffer
- The tipping point
- Emotional Stability at home & school performance
- Stress in the home & its effects
- Stress at work & its effects
- Marriage Intervention
- Impact of emotional stress across society
- Emotional stress & productivity at work
Sensory integration
- Stimulate more of the senses
- How the senses integrate
- Sensation, routing and perception
- Bottoms up, tops down
- Survival by teamwork
- The learning link
- Ways to improve teaching & learning
- Nosing it out
- Ideas: Multisensory school lessons
- Ideas: Sensory branding
- Ideas: Smells at work
- Bypassing the thalamus
- Getting to the amygdala
Vision
- Vision trumps all other senses
- We see with our brains
- Streams of consciousness
- Filling the blind spot
- Charles Bonnet Syndrome
- Phantom of the ocular
- Worth a thousand words
- A punch in the nose
- Ideas: Teachers should learn why pictures grab attention
- Ideas: Teachers should use computer animations
Gender
- Male and Female brains are different
- Structurally and biochemically different
- Chromosomes and genes
- The x factor
- Is bigger better?
- Battle of the sexes
- Gender effects on severity of psychiatric disorders
- Dealing with traumatic situations
- Verbal communication
- Into adulthood
- Different responses to acute stress
- Nature or nurture
- Ideas: Get the facts straight on emotions
- Ideas: Try different gender arrangements in the classroom
- Ideas: Use gender teams in the workplace
Exploration
- Humans are powerful and natural explorers
- Breaking stuff
- Tongue testing
- Monkey see, monkey do
- A lifetime journey
- From dinosaurs to atheism
- The sense of wonder
- Some parts of our adult brains stay as malleable as a baby’s
