Mindsight and Neuroscience

Mindsight by Daniel Siegel M.D. Jennifer Oldford Turk Mac Donald

Agenda 1. Mindsight o Definition o The 7thSense 2. Neuroscience o Structure and function The Hand Model of the Brain (video) o Neuroplasticity o Connections to mindsight 3. Integration o River of Integration Ridigity/Chaos/Both Activity. o 8 Domains of Integration Right Brain/Left Brain Activity 4. Cultivating Mindsight o Triangle of well-being o Attentive communication, attunement, resonance Communication activities Video Defining a healthy mind activity http://blogs.psychcentral.com/therapist- within/files/2011/05/mindsight-G-Gawne-Kelnar.jpg Additional references and resources. Note: Blending the What?, So What? and the Now What?.

1. Mindsight DEFINING THE MIND: o Task: Take a moment and jot down three terms or phrases that would describe the mind. o Be prepared to share.

1. Mindsight Siegel s definition: o The human mind is a relational and embodied process that regulates the flow of energy and information. http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/518237/23271776/1375933009253/dointhe goddessdance.jpg?token=vkPgzkNON2vRYnviMhhe9xV5tTM%3D

1. Mindsight human capacity to perceive the mind of self and others powerful lens through which we can understand our inner lives with more clarity, integrate the brain, and enhance our relationships with others helps us get ourselves off of the autopilot of ingrained behaviors and habitual responses Video Link (10 Minutes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jwGU7h2HdY http://themindunleashed.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/mindfulll.jpg

1. Mindsight The 7 Senses: o 1-5 = Ability to perceive the outside world Sight, Sound, Smell, Taste, Touch o 6 = Ability us to perceive our internal states Rapid beating heart, butterflies in our stomach, pain from injury o 7 = Ability to perceive our mind See and shape the inner workings of our mind, reflect on experience https://storybookstorage.s3.amazonaws.c om/items/images/000/110/695/original/Lc doypy9i.jpg?1434325453

1. Mindsight Now What? 1. If this is something that helps, what is keeping us from it? http://mindmappingsoftwareblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/thinking-cap-300px.gif

2. Neuroscience Brainstem: ancient brain. Regulates basic processes, states of arousal, fight-flight-freeze. Limbic System: emotions, evaluation of good vs bad, forming relationships and emotional attachment, memory Cerebral cortex: think, imagine, combine facts and experiences, create https://skinnurse.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/brain.png

2. Neuroscience Parts of the Brain Hand Model (Video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm9CIJ74Oxw

2. Neuroscience Mindfulness and Brain function: o Neuroplasticity: capacity to create new neural connections and new neurons in response to experience o Synaptogenesis: strengthening and creation of new synaptic connections. o Focused awareness enables us to: voluntarily change a firing pattern that was laid down involuntarily. create neural firing patterns that permit previously separated areas to become linked and integrated o The brain becomes more interconnected and the mind becomes more adaptive http://www.urbanchildinstitute.org/sites/all/files/databooks/2011/ch1-fg2-communication-between-neurons.jpg

2. Neuroscience Course connection: Guest speaker Jennifer Sims Response flexibility: harnesses the power of the prefrontal region to put a temporal space between input and action.

2. Neuroscience Right brain/left-brain activity o Blind-contour drawing http://3.bp.blogspot.com/- E9WmyUSMx_I/TnoSmqs0HEI/AAAAAAAABIw/ZeHCS Fs2pNE/s1600/blind-contour-line-drawings.gif Edwards, B. (1999). The new drawing on the right side of the brain. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam

2. Neuroscience Now What? 2. a)How do we use an understanding of the functioning of the brain to improve our teaching and interactions with students and colleagues? b) How do we get teaching with the brain in mind to become a part of B.Ed. training? http://mindmappingsoftwareblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/thinking-cap-300px.gif

3. Integration a process by which separate elements are linked together as a working whole. integration enables us to be flexible and free the lack of such connections promotes a life that is either rigid or chaotic COMPLEXITY CHOIR? http://jonlieffmd.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/FEATURE-BRAIN-CIRCUITS-ISTOCK-HiRes-300x300.jpg

3. Integration River of Integration: the mindful balance between structure and spontaneity

3. Integration Eight Domains of Integration: Integration of Consciousness: build skills to stabilize attention. Harness the power of attention to create choice and change. Horizontal Integration: balance the two sides to increase creativity, richness and complexity of thought. Vertical Integration: bringing bodily sensations into awareness. Memory Integration: making implicit memories explicit. Narrative Integration: making sense of our lives by creating stories that weave together narrator function with autobiographical memory storage. State Integration: embracing our many self-states as healthy dimensions of ourselves. Interpersonal Integration: connecting in relationships while retaining our own sense of identity and freedom. Temporal Integration: finding comfort in the face of uncertainty, impermanence, and mortality. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

3. Integration Rigidity/ Chaos/ Both activity o DSM - Diagnosis

3. Integration Course connection: Yoga practice https://yogametaphysics.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/421898_32 9265737120589_100001114969889_861611_34103257_n-1.jpg Integration of Consciousness and Vertical Integration

3. Integration Now What? 3. How do invite our staff to recognize Mindsight in their own life? And use it to improve Interpersonal Integration? http://mindmappingsoftwareblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/thinking-cap-300px.gif

4. Cultivating Mindsight the triangle of well-being

4. Cultivating Mindsight Attunement and attachment o Parent-child o Other relationships attachment is not what happened to his parents as children, but rather how his parents made sense of those childhood experiences. ~ Dan Siegel from Mindsight The best predictor of a child's security of

4. Cultivating Mindsight Activities for you and your students: 1. Non-verbal communication game of copying someone else s facial expression and guessing the emotion. Non-verbal communication game of watching TV with the sound off and letting your brain fill-in the blank. Journaling about your day in pictures/smells/sounds to help activate the senses Journaling emotions Finding words to depict our internal world Making mindmaps of how we see ourselves and our relations with others. Tensing and releasing certain muscle groups to become aware of them Having someone say no in a harsh tone and then a nice yes several times and discussing how it feels when both words are said to you. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

4. Cultivating Mindsight Focused Awareness: o The Wheel of Awareness Video Link on the Wheel Enjoy at your leisure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODlFhOKahmk

4. Cultivating Mindsight OTHER ACTIVITIES TO TRY: Body Scan Stay With That- a practice of noticing and naming your feelings without judgment Focusing on the breath Walking Meditation SIFT- process of deliberately accessing your Sensations, Feelings, and Thoughts

4. Cultivating Mindsight Course connection: Purser (2014), Ergas (2013 & 2015), Hyland (2015) http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/images/uploads/ Goleman-80924-59-Corbis-383x480_smaller.jpg Mindfulness vs Mindsight: Neuroscience separated from religious practice When we carry out a mindfulness practice of focused awareness, we develop mindsight.

4. Cultivating Mindsight Now What? 4. How do we maintain the separation between providing therapy and providing support & connectivity? 5. If there are other ways to stimulate neural growth, why should we focus on mindsight? http://mindmappingsoftwareblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/thinking-cap-300px.gif

BIG AHA! Why is mindsight important to teachers? 1. Teaching is about relationships and interactions 2. Being aware of our own awareness gives us response flexibility 3. By modeling attentive communication and attunement we assist students in their brain development 4. Integration increases rate, strength, and adaptability of neural functioning 5. WELL-BEING

Re-cap Agenda 1. Mindsight Defining the mind activity o Definition Video o The 7th Sense 2. Neuroscience o Structure and function The Hand Model of the Brain (video) o Neuroplasticity o Connections to mindsight 3. Integration o River of Integration Ridigity/Chaos/Both Activity. o 8 Domains of Integration Right Brain/Left Brain Activity 4. Cultivating Mindsight o Triangle of well-being o Attentive communication, attunement, resonance Communication activities http://blogs.psychcentral.com/therapist- within/files/2011/05/mindsight-G-Gawne-Kelnar.jpg Additional references and resources. Note: Blending the What?, So What? and the Now What?.

Other Works by Daniel Siegel: Siegel, D. & Fosha, D. (2009). The Healing Power of Emotion: Affective Neuroscience, Development & Clinical Practice. New York, New York: WW Norton & Company, Siegel, D. (2010). The Mindful Therapist: A Clinician's Guide to Mindsight and Neural Integration. New York, New York: WW Norton & Company. Siegel, D. (2010). Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation. New York, New York: Bantam. Siegel, D. & Bryson, T. (2011). The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child s Developing Mind, Survive Everyday Parenting Struggles, and Help Your Family Thrive. New York, New York: Delacorte Press. Siegel, D. (2012). The Developing Mind, Second Edition: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are. New York, New York: Guilford Press. Siegel, D. (2012). Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology: An Integrative Handbook of the Mind. New York, New York: W.W. Norton & Company. Siegel, D. (2013). Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain. New Tork, New York: Penguin Putnam. Siegel, D., & Hartzel, M. (2004). Parenting From the Inside Out: How A Deeper Self- Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive. New York, New York: Tarcher. Siegel, D., & Bryson, T. (2014). No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind. New York, New York: Bantam. Siegel, D. (2007). The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being. New York, New York: WW Norton. Siegel, D. (1999). The Developing Mind: Toward a Neurobiology of Interpersonal Experience. New York, New York: Guilford Press. Siegel, D., Hartzel, M. (2003). Parenting from the Inside Out. New York, New York: Tarcher.

The Whole Brain Child

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