The Brain Gym program is in use in over 80 countries around the world, and its materials have been translated into over 30 languages. Each course offers its own unique perspective on the mind-body relationship, and additional techniques for releasing less-helpful patterns and taking on new patterns that support how we want to think, learn, and move through life.Įven with this extensive Educational Kinesiology curriculum, the entire program has come to be called “Brain Gym” – perhaps because it’s so much fun to say!
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This curriculum includes courses such as Edu-K In-Depth – The Seven Dimensions of Intelligence Optimal Brain Organization Visioncircles Movement Exploration Total Core Repatterning Creative Vision Hands On – How to Use Brain Gym® in the Classroom and Brain Gym® for Special Needs Providers, to name just a few. The Educational Kinesiology curriculum begins with the initial Brain Gym® 101 course, which teaches participants how to use the 26 Brain Gym movements individually, and to combine them in specific protocols to make targeted changes in Reading, Listening, Communication, Focus, Comprehension, Organization, Whole-brain-whole-body Coordination, and more.īeyond the Brain Gym® 101 course are over 600 hours of Educational Kinesiology courses, offering additional techniques for addressing challenges more directly at their core. The name is a reference to the Latin word educere, which means “ to draw out” the intention behind this whole system is to “draw out” innate abilities and skills - useful for people of any age! The “ Educational” part of the name “Educational Kinesiology” does not refer specifically to school settings. Dennison, in which simple, enjoyable physical movements are used to enhance our ability to learn, process information, and move in an organized, comfortable way in the world around us.īrain Gym is the introductory program of the Dennisons’ entire spectrum of techniques known as Educational Kinesiology ( Edu-K).
Dennison, Ph.D., and his wife and partner Gail E. Straight away participants were reporting that they felt “calmer more relaxed, quieter inside, as if what they had to do was ‘no big deal’, that they could cope, alert but calm at the same time” etc. We used PACE twice in every training session at the start and after lunch. Participants had such strongly positive and convincing experiences of PACE that many subsequently used it everyday in the morning as part of a routine to help them feel resourceful between training sessions. Many shared their experience of this simple skill with others, either friends, family members (some who had also been experiencing mental-health difficulties) or in some cases with fellow users of the mental-health service that they had contact with in a voluntary capacity. One lady reported that when she showed it to a man who hadn’t come out of his room for several years he actually moved to another room in the building and was talking about what it would be like to go outside.The Brain Gym® program i s a system developed by learning specialist Paul E.
We used “ PACE” ( the 4 step- ‘tune up’ - involving drinking water, stimulating two acupressure points just below the collar bone, doing “cross crawl” and sitting for a few moments in a calming posture called a “hook-up” Dennison and Dennison 1997) at the very start of the training, prior to everybody introducing themselves. We have found Brain Gym® particularly helpful in enabling participants to become more ‘literate’ in how to use their own mind-body system to help themselves. As part of this learning process we invite participants cleanly to create their own contrast frames. We ask them to take careful before and after observations of their mental state, emotional state, how they feel in their body, the level of internal dialogue etc. Occasionally we will do this simply for how they feel right now, and increasingly often, we invite them to think about a particular problem they’d like to handle more resourcefully or to have a specific outcome in mind. Working on particular issues in this way gives incredibly strong contrast frames on the efficacy of Brain Gym® and also acts as an effective way of fulfilling the participants convincer strategies prior to them leaving the training room. We see more and more evidence that this has enhanced the application of their learning away from the training room and also in their lives between and since the training sessions.
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