Anatomy of Embodied Education:
Creating Pathways to Brain-Mind Evolution
Imagine that you have obtained a guidebook for exploring a vast, mysterious forest that you have heard of, but have never known how to approach—a forest so intricate and lush that most people feel reluctant to enter it without an experienced guide, and yet so alluring that you long to wander its paths, follow its streams to their source, gain access to its panoramic views of terrains that have barely begun to be mapped.
What makes this terrain so alluring is that it enfolds largely untold knowledge of the processes through which humans grow, develop, learn. And as explorers understand these processes more fully, they also begin to see how they have been unnecessarily hampered by assumptions and practices endemic to their culture. Then, seeing those blockages, explorers can gather the means to dissolve them, allowing growth, development, and learning to proceed more freely and naturally.
The vast, forested terrain in this metaphor is the embodied human brain, and its processes underlie not only growth, development and learning, but the mystery of consciousness itself. We authors offer this guidebook to assist you in entering and exploring that terrain.
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“In this treasure of a book, Burns and Brown weave a tapestry from the collective threads of their lineage traditions, experience and wisdom as veteran educators in human development and consciousness… As illuminated here, mindful, embodied education offers pathways that foster deep intelligence and consciousness rooted in the senses, the earth and the inherent values of Goodness, Truth and Beauty.” ~ Kate Cook, M.A., LPCC, TEP, Director of the Applied Interpersonal Neurobiology Certificate Program Southwestern College, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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Mindleap: A Fresh View of Education Empowered by Neuroscience and Systems Thinking
In this thoroughly-researched and exquisitely crafted treatise, Jim Brown synthesizes the newest understandings in neuroscience, developmental psychology, and dynamical systems theory for educators and others committed to nurturing human development. He explains complex concepts in down-to-earth terms, suggesting how these understandings can transform education to truly engender optimal learning and intelligence. He explores the nature of consciousness, intelligence, and mind.
Brown then offers a model of optimal human learning through life-long brain development within a supportive culture–drawing on the work of Piaget, Erickson, Maslow, Kohlberg, and Steiner–and how that work is being vastly expanded by neuroscience and dynamical systems thinking.
Mindleap is available in print ($26 retail) and Kindle e-book ($9.99 retail). Order through your favorite bookstore, brick-and-mortar or online or
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“Mindleap reveals how the innovative methods of neuroscience can be applied to create a system of education that is better able to meet the challenges of our accelerating world. Essential to this endeavor, Brown emphasizes, is understanding the value of enhancing self-actualization of learners within the context of relationship. He invites not only psychologists, educators, graduate and post-graduate students to explore this new model of thinking, but it also encourages other seekers and creators to join together in shaping a culture of life-long learning.”— Susan S. Scott, PhD, Jungian Analytical Psychology practitioner, Author of Healing with Nature.
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See Jim’s list of “the best books on brain, mind, and consciousness”, on Shepherd.com.
