“A kindergarten student who was being bullied in school was moved to another class. It really helped me basically with a lot of things, like sleeping through the night, eating, being happier at school, making new friends and blocking out my little sister’s nagging!” Some testimonials from the MindUP™ website. As an added benefit, MindUP™ is also making kids budding neurobiologists – each lesson is accompanied by a description of what goes on in the brain when one practices mindfulness, and kids apparently go home to their families and tell them about their brains. It has turned into a full-fledged meme, spreading like wildfire in the absence of marketing. High school teachers are starting to ask for a version of the program for their students. When teachers who are not using the program see what a powerful positive effect it is having on kids in other classes, they clamour for having the curriculum included in their daily lesson plans. The results are not yet published, but even the non-quantitative results are compelling. Kim is in the process of carrying out a proper experiment on the MindUP™ program, with some classes receive no training, others receiving sham training, and other getting the full MindUP™ curriculum. Because each session of the program is brief, children are not only able to manage it but love it, telling their friends & families about their experiences on a regular basis. Three times a day, kids are given three minutes of a version of mindfulness training which, in aggregate, takes them through four 30 minute lessons: (1) Quieting the mind (2) Our senses (3) Practical Applications (4) Mindfulness and ourselves in the world. What she told me was nothing less than astonishing. Supported by the Hawn Foundation for Mindful Education, the MindUP™ program is reaping great rewards for schoolchildren in Vancouver and beyond. I had the pleasure of spending a couple of hours on an airplane yesterday speaking with UBC Associate Professor Kim Schonert-Reich, one of the lead researchers on the efficacy of the MindUP™ curriculum on schoolchildren. The MindUP™ program, developed by actress Goldie Hawn and neurologist Judy Willis uses short bouts of mindfulness training to help elementary school children learn to regulate their own brains. If you think this is a fantasy, you would be wrong. He is the author of Human Motor Control, It's a Jungle in There: How Competition and Cooperation in the Brain Shape the Mind, Knowing Hands: The Cognitive Psychology of Manual Control, and other books.Imagine a brain manipulation which gives children greater mental focus, improves empathy, and increases optimism. Rosenbaum is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside. The book is generously illustrated, including many images of thinkers who contributed to the field.Ībout the Author David A. It considers the control of actions in space learning, and the roles of nature and nurture feedback feedforward, or anticipated feedback and degrees of freedom-the multiple ways of getting things done and three methods for narrowing the alternatives. The book discusses the intellectual background of the field, from Plato to Kant, Dewey, and others applications and methods and the physical substrates of action-bones, tendons, ligaments, muscles, and nerves. Special emphasis is placed on the role of underrepresented groups. The informal writing style invites students to think through the evidence step by step, helping them develop general thinking stills as well as learn specific facts. It explains action not as a "one-way street from stimuli to response" but as a continual perception-action cycle. Written by a leading researcher in the field, it covers the interplay of action, mind, and brain, showing that many core concepts in philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and technology grew out of questions about the control of everyday physical actions. This engaging and accessible book offers the first introductory text on the psychology and neuroscience of physical action. About the Book "An advanced level textbook on the science of action and movement from one of the most respected researchers in the field"-īook Synopsis An engaging and accessible introduction to the psychology and neuroscience of physical action.
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