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Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction (Click to read online)
Chapter 1:  Introduction to the Human Brain
Chapter 2:  The Triune Brain Revisited
Chapter 3:  Brain Maturation and Development
Chapter 4:  The Brain Up Close
Chapter 5:  The Real Brain Basics: Exercise and Sleep
Chapter 6:  Gene Expression, Learning, and Human Potential
Chapter 7:  The Brain and Environmental Enrichment
Chapter 8:  This is Your Brain on Stress
Chapter 9:  Chronobiology and the Rhythms of Life
Chapter 10: Brainwaves, Mind States, Learning, Performance and Well-Being
Chapter 11: The Intelligent Body: Sensing, Intuition, and the Embodied Mind
Chapter 12: The Heart Has a Mind of Its Own
Chapter 13: The Contingent Mind: Nurture, Feedback, Play and the Neurobiology of Human Development
Chapter 14: Minding the Mind: The Benefits of Paying Attention to Attention
Chapter 15: The Anatomy of Embodied Education: Mindful Integration of Brain, Body and Heart Intelligences
Conclusion:  In Pursuit of Human Possibility
Reference List
Index

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What People Are Saying about Anatomy of Embodied Education

Anatomy of Embodied Education: Creating Pathways to Brain-Mind Evolution is an artful piece of work that condenses the past 70 years of literature from the fields of neuroscience, learning, psychology and human wellbeing. This is a resource that integrates centuries of bright minds, a collage of perspectives and rich discussion leading to optimizing human potential. The authors have unpacked the imperative beyond the growth of a healthy, functioning brain toward developing an inquisitive, creative and intelligent mind. This accumulation of comprehensive knowledge interwoven with keen perspectives engages the reader in an in-depth discussion of a path to access human potentials across many levels. The journey begins with simple brain- body physiology, articulating the essentials of healthy development through early and ongoing extension of the brain-mind that drives purposeful thought and character. Comprehensive as any work on the brain as it relates to “mind,” the focus encompasses a span from individual achievement to species potential. The gestalt of this work eclipses an amassing of scientific knowledge, applying such to living life well, as one learns and lives in accordance with nature’s agenda. Burns and Brown have done a spectacular reflection of the essence of the body/brain and the mind/spirit of human potential. They have left no stone unturned in the pursuit of human growth and possibility. – Robert K Greenleaf, Ed.D, President, Greenleaf Learning, former public education teacher, principal, superintendent and faculty development coordinator, University System of New Hampshire

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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. The reader is invited on a learning adventure integrating theory, philosophy, and offering practical tools grounded in biology and contemporary relational neuroscience. The eclectic array of chapters tickle the reader’s curiosity and orient us toward a future where learning is accessible to and inclusive of diverse learning styles. 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.

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Anatomy of Embodied Education is a well done and courageous book dedicated to propelling us into creative thinking on how to develop optimally functioning mind-body consciousness through our lifetimes, beginning in childhood. Burns and Brown skillfully weave classical and current neuroscience theories that allow the reader flexibility to reimagine our minds in new ways. It is a special joy to elevate cosmic consciousness of the numinous in education. – Ernest Rossi PhD and Kathryn Lane Rossi PhD Psychotherapists, authors, editors, The Collected Works of Milton H. Erickson, MD (16 Volumes)

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In their new book Anatomy of Embodied Education, Burns and Brown draw our attention to the process of exploring human potential as an evolutionary trend that leads us towards a more positive future. Through a thoughtful analysis of neuroscientific research, coupled with the authors’ mindful and highly engaging insights, the reader is challenged to rethink the narrow, utilitarian paradigm of education that many of our schools have adopted for too long. Any parent, educator or education leader who seeks to better understand the nature and importance of lifelong learning should read this book.
– Peter Bateman, PhD, Executive Director, African International School Association

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This is a landmark exploration of the fundamental constituents of human wholeness – neuroscience, wisdom traditions and common sense – that each of us as educators and parents must understand and integrate in order to nurture ‘the human birthright of developmental wholeness, healthy wellbeing and integrated intelligence.’

A timely book as the disruptions of the COVID 19 pandemic provide the opportunity to envision anew the intentions of education and co-create adaptive educational approaches, platforms and praxis that are relevant, engaging, equitable, and meaningful and integrate brain, body, heart and spirit to foster whole children, whole youth, whole adults and whole communities.
Practical, applicable, and inspirational, this hopeful book provides powerful information and guidance for aligning educational and parenting practices to nurture and authentically educate individuals and collectives to be compassionate, creative and accountable to self, to one another and to our planet. – Amy McConnell Franklin, Ph.D, author of Choose to Change:
A Practical Guide for Fostering Emotional Intelligence in the Classroom

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Just a glance at the Table of Contents leaves one astounded at the breadth and depth of this profound treatise for a revolution in human intelligence. The authors succeed in the challenging endeavor to move from the theoretical to the practical, with information that is timely, accessible and easy to immediately put into practice for teachers, counselors and parents. This book is a beautiful invitation to the adventure of lifelong learning. The final chapter, which summarizes the integration of body, mind and heart intelligence, is a must read for anyone interested in translating the latest brain science into creating a better world for future generations. – Victor la Cerva, MD. Board certified Pediatrician, Author, Letters to a Young Man in Search of Himself

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Anatomy of Embodied Education is a complex, multilayered and multileveled, holistic synthesis of scientific, pedagogical, practical, spiritual and intuitive approach to education, based upon centuries of human experience, traditional wisdom and basic common sense. Dedicated to personal, educational and societal development and common wellbeing, the book includes wholesome strategies, routines and environmental enrichments. It is a clear, comprehensive, well organised manual, meant as a guide to support individuals, parents, teachers, policy developers and, hopefully, leaders in impacting the development and nurture of (every)one’s learning, progress and wellbeing. – Irena Steblaj, Director, Danila Kumar International School, Ljubljana, Slovenia

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