The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture a Child’s Developing Mind – Daniel J. Siegel , Tina Payne Bryson

Course Description

The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture a Child’s Developing Mind – Daniel J. Siegel , Tina Payne Bryson

In this engaging and practically oriented video, Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., Neuropsychiatrist and author of the best-selling book,  Mindsight, and parenting expert Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D., demonstrate the core ideas and strategies from their best-selling book  The Whole-Brain Child.

Using stories, humor, and plenty of practical suggestions, Siegel and Bryson exhibit how to cultivate healthy emotional and intellectual development in children. Learn how to turn outbursts, arguments, and fears into opportunities to integrate a child’s brain and foster vital growth. The result? Kids who are happier, healthier, and more balanced.

Learn practical strategies from The Whole-Brain Child:

• Name It to Tame It: Corral raging right-brain behavior through left-brain storytelling, appealing to the left brain’s affinity for words and reasoning to calm emotional story and bodily tension
• Engage, Don’t Enrage: Keep the child thinking and listening, instead of purely reacting
• Move It or Lose It: Use physical activities to shift a child’s emotional state

This video is divided into 6 discrete chapters so you can easily jump to the part of the video that is of most interest to you at any given time.

1. Recognize and shift their thinking that struggles with their children are also opportunities for integration
2. Address high-emotion situations when their kids are internally dysregulated in a way that allows everyone to survive the moment and handle it more effectively
3. Develop long-term mental and emotional health in their children by creating opportunities for greater degrees of integration

Two Brains Are Better Than One: Integrating the Left and the Right

• Whole Brain Strategy #1 — Connect and Redirect: Surfing Emotional Waves
• Whole Brain Strategy #2 — Name It to Tame It: Telling Stories to Calm Big Emotions

Building the Staircase of the Mind: Integrating the Upstairs and Downstairs

• Whole Brain Strategy #3 — Engage, Don’t Enrage: Appealing to the Upstairs Brain
• Whole Brain Strategy #4 — Use It or Lose It: Exercising the Upstairs Brain
• Whole Brain Strategy #5 — Move It or Lose It: Moving the Body to Avoid Losing the Mind

Kill the Butterflies! Integrating Memory for Growth and Healing

• Whole Brain Strategy #6 – Use the Remote of the Mind: Replaying Memories
• Whole Brain Strategy #7 — Remember to Remember: Making Recollection a Part of Your Family’s Daily Life

The United States of Me: Integrating the Many Parts of Myself

• Whole Brain Strategy #8 — Let the Clouds of Emotion Roll By: Teaching that Feelings Come And Go
• Whole Brain Strategy #9 — SIFT: Paying Attention to What’s Going On Inside
• Whole Brain Strategy #10 – Exercise Mindsight: Getting Back to the Hub

The Me-We Connection: Integrating Self and Other

• Whole Brain Strategy #11 — Increase the Family Fun Factor: Making a Point to Enjoy Each Other
• Whole Brain Strategy #12 — Connect Through Conflict: Teaching Kids to Argue with a -We in Mind