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Mental Health Awareness Month
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, a time dedicated to raising awareness about the importance of mental well-being and reducing the stigma surrounding mental health conditions.
Resilience
Research supports the idea that resilience is deeply interwoven with social connectedness. In order to learn new things and navigate our way socially through the world with ease, our nervous system must be calm and alert, and that only happens when...
Epigenetics: It Goes On and On
Unfortunately, there are some wounds that time does NOT heal. Current findings show the emotional damage of trauma and other environmental factors/experiences not only affect the individual but can be inherited by their children and further...
Do You Hear What I Hear?
The Power of Music The movements in CalmConnect are synchronized to music, creating a compelling rhythmic practice that activates the PSNS into a calm but attentive state. CalmConnect’s music sets it apart, as each piece is uniquely identified with...
CalmConnect™ Reduced Off Task Behavior 48% in NYC Schools
New York City Public Schools studied the impact of CalmConnect™ in reducing off task behavior in the classroom during the summer session of 2017. CalmConnect™ was used in two schools and two classrooms. The classrooms consisted of children in...
CalmConnect™ Reduced Off Task Behavior 58% in St. Paul Schools
St. Paul Schools measured CalmConnect™ efficacy in reducing off-task behavior in the spring of 2017. Prevent staff, school counselors, and school social workers observed students in eight classrooms, four in each of two schools. The classrooms...
Mirror Neurons
Giacomo Rizzolatti is a neurophysiologist at the University of Parma in Italy. In 1995 he was leading a team of researchers as they mapped the activity of the F5 area of the brain in macaque monkeys. F5 is in the premotor cortex and contains...
The Science of Fight or Flight
Beginning in the 1990’s sports and military psychologists examined the performance-limiting effects of ‘undesirable emotions’ like fear and anxiety. They looked at a fundamental question: Is the fear that you feel in combat the same fear that you...
Self-Regulation
For many people, self-regulation is something you never think about, or even hear about, until you have a child – and then it seems like you think about nothing else. At least that was my experience twenty-five years ago when my daughter was born...
Optimizing Learning Outcomes: Proven Brain-Centric, Trauma-Sensitive Practices
Chapter ThreeMulti-Sensory Movement for All:Changing Our Physiology, Behavior and Performanceby Roberta Scherf and Chris Bye We’re pleased to announce the publication of a new book on trauma-informed care, edited by William Steele,Ph.D. The book...