 | ||
 | | |
 | ||
| | |
 | There are two main ways to experience Brain Gym: One is through private sessions targeted at your specific issue. The other is through workshops and courses in which you learn the tools of Brain Gym© for yourself. Once you learn the basics of the Brain Gym program you can use these tools help friends and family members and yourself. You can also blend a bit of Brain Gym into the work you do: If you’re a teacher or counselor, for example, you can use what you learn in your classroom to help your students or clients. Kathy Brown teaches three key courses of the Brain Gym curriculum, Brain Gym 101, Optimal Brain Organization and Visioncircles. She maintains a schedule of courses and workshops in Phoenix, and travels to other locations to teach as well, on request. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | Most courses take place in the comfortable Center Edge offices. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In this course you will learn the basics of the Brain Gym program: the principles behind Brain Gym and how movement supports learning, how to do all 26 Brain Gym movements (and get the most out of them), and how to use the dynamic Brain Gym 'balance" process to overcome overcome obstacles to learning, performance, and self-esteem. You'll come away with specific tools for improving vision and reading, hearing, fine motor/eye-hand coordination and whole body coordination, as well as communication, organization, and focus. All learning is done in the context of addressing goals in your own life, so you can see just how easy it is to learn new patterns that support easy, optimal functioning. As a former classroom teacher, Kathy always includes many ideas for seamlessly blending Brain Gym movements and the Brain Gym balance process into the classroom day in ways that are fun, engaging, and appropriate for all age levels. BG101 is the prerequisite for most other courses in the Brain Gym curriculum (some advanced courses have two prerequisites). In this course you learn about the many elements of brain organization that combine to help (or hinder) the learning process. One key element that is explored is “brain organization profiles,” each learner’s specific combination of lead (dominant) eye, ear, hand, foot, and brain hemisphere, that creates a preferred learning style when that learner is under stress. This is a pivotal piece of information for many teachers (and many students) who can then understand their gifts or challenges as learners. Even more importantly, the course offers an experience of how Brain Gym helps our brain become more efficiently organized for easier learning and processing of all kinds. Visioncircles is a joyful exploration of eight developmental spheres of our innate perceptual intelligences. These natural gifts are present at birth, but may be suppressed (or less used) in response to outer-directed, competitive or goal-oriented environments. The perceptual intelligences addressed are: The Observer, The Animator, The Resonator, The Nurturer, The Builder, The Internalizer, The Communicator, The Synergist. In this course you learn to identify, understand, and balance for full integration of each of these perceptual intelligences, enhancing focus, memory, listening, spatial sense, organization, inner calm and personal ease, artistic enjoyment and creativity. This class is excellent for educators, parents, occupational therapists, anyone seeking to increase their perceptual skills or anyone with learning challenges. Licensure As people move through the Brain Gym curriculum they often become interested in being licensed as a Brain Gym consultant/instructor. Full details on this process are available on the Brain Gym website, under “licensing.” Licensed Brain Gym consultant/instructors are authorized to teach workshops in Brain Gym® and the Brain Gym 101 course, charge a fee for Brain Gym services with clients, and use the words “Brain Gym” in their promotional materials. We look forward to having you in a Brain Gym workshop or course! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
© Copyright Kathy Brown 2008. All rights reserved. Brain Gym is a registered trademark of the Educational Kinesiology Foundation/Brain Gym International. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| | | | | | | | | | | | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
