These 5 Micro-Movements are a sign of Trust & Safety – PLUS my interview with Danny Bauer
“Being able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental health; safe connections are fundamental to meaningful and satisfying lives.” – Bessel Van Der Kolk (this is me many years ago in Ejura,…
How to get people to listen: the science of trust and attachment
How do you help someone learn and perform at their highest level? First they must be WILLING to learn. How does that happen? It starts with trust and connection. Find out the science behind why humans MUST feel a…
Toxic school & business culture, Brand Marketing interview with Ben Baker
Had a great interview with Your Brand Marketing expert then Ben Baker! We talked about some of the problems we see in education that holds learners back from understanding their true potential. We also discussed some of the danger…
Micro-Movement & Micro-Progress
Comment about this episode from Better Leaders Better Schools: One of my favorite podcasts so far! So much wisdom and like you said it is comforting that she affirmed and confirmed things I was already thinking and implementing! I…
The importance of sound: Our ears may be more powerful than our eyes – MNT 006
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Sound may be the most important sense we have for learning as well as for detecting others emotions. The human ability to hear ‘just noticeable differences’ is significantly more powerful than what our eyes are able to detect…
Is There a ‘Dark Side’ to Growth Mindset? – my guest interview
As amazing as it is in encouraging strong learning habits and perseverance… yes, there is a dark side of growth mindset. A danger of growth mindset is when it: 1) Becomes an exaggerated and extreme focus of interventions…
Without this, you can’t “teach” growth mindset…
Growth mindset is a concept. A concept is something abstract, like ‘passion or perseverance’. You can’t ‘teach passion’ because a person has to experinece it themselves to know it. It’s the same with ‘growth mindset’. But there is something you…
What Bird Box Reveals about the science of human connection
Are we better at ‘hearing emotions’ than seeing them? Not sure if you‘ve seen the Netflix movie Bird Box or read the book. It caused quite a stir recently! Without revealing too much, I’ll just say that what causes horror…
The Body is the Bridge
“In order to change, people need to become aware of their sensations and the way that their bodies interact with the world around them.” – Bessel Van Der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score I recently spoke at a symposium…
The 5 Commitments of Growth Mindset
I’m not sure if you’ve been noticing this, but what I’ve been seeing is that… ‘growth mindset’ is being used by some people to really mean “tell me how to fix that other person. Give me a ‘trick’ to use so I…
“Relational Minds” – Season 1 finale!
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What matters is not how things are, but how they interact. – Carlo Rovelli, theoretical physicist, in his book, Reality is Not What It Seems What does ‘relational’ mean? it is often defined as, “concerning the way in…
This is what happens to your brain when you add diversity to your life – MNT 011
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No two people ever experience reality in the same way: our senses and neural architecture are built up by our own lifetime of unique experiences. Our brain and senses are constantly narrowing down our world. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing: if…
Can you make people ‘willing’ to change their mindset? – MNT 010
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Most growth mindset interventions don’t work because they focus on: changing ‘other people’s’ attitudes rather than on the mindset of the person who is teaching or leading catchphrases & posters rather than relationship & trust specific results, like improving standardized test scores* *this is literally the…
Micro-Movement & Micro-Progress
Comment about this episode from Better Leaders Better Schools: One of my favorite podcasts so far! So much wisdom and like you said it is comforting that she affirmed and confirmed things I was already thinking and implementing! I…
How to be more authentic when you teach growth mindset -MNT 009
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In order to teach growth mindset, we need to be sure it’s coming from an authentic place. It seems that much growth mindset teaching is focused on changing the attitudes of others’, rather than looking at how we internalize and…