Summer School 2009 - Course List
Creative Vision - 24 hours
Instructor Barbara Wards
Date: January 11th - 13th (Sun, Mon and Tues) 2009
Time: 9am - 5pm
Prerequisite: Edu-K In Depth and Visioncircles
Course Fee (includes lunch):
- Before October 1: $495 No GST (Australian Dollars only)
- After October 1: $555
- Review: $280
This workshop presents both an objective and subjective exploration of the learner's visual capacity. Participants will gain new understanding of vision and movement and how these relate to learning, reading and other life skills.
Instructor: Barbara Wards International Edu-K Faculty New Zealand
Language of Movement - 24 hours
With Paul Dennison Ph.D.
Date: January 11th - 13th (Sun, Mon and Tues) 2009
Time: 9am - 5pm
Prerequisite: Edu-K In Depth
Course Fee (includes lunch):
- Before October 1: $600 No GST (Australian Dollars only)
- After October 1: $720
- Review: $360
This workshop will increase the knowledge and expertise of the Brain Gym consultant who works one-on-one with the advanced Educational Kinesiology process. Deepen your knowledge of the Edu-K advanced balancing process and enhance your skills in this three-day course. An in-depth study of movements and postures as they pertain to learning abilities and brain function will be offered. New techniques for deeper relaxation and increased muscle integration will be explored along with ways to increase vitality and body efficiency.
Instructor: Paul Dennison, Ph.D.
Paul Dennison is a professional educator, pioneer in applied brain research and world authority on cognitive skills and reading achievement. He received his doctorate in education for his research on reading and cognitive development. His clinical research in the USA on the causes and treatment of learning difficulties resulted in the development of the Educational Kinesiology and Brain Gym® programs with his wife Gail Dennison. These programs are now used in more than 80 countries worldwide and translated into more than 40 languages.
In 1999 the Dennisons' received the prestigious Reading Excellence through the Arts Award from the International Reading Association for their exemplary work on behalf of children, teachers, literacy and the arts.
Repatterning Diversity - 16 hours
With Patti Leahy Shrewsbury
Date: January 11th and 12th (Sun and Mon) 2009
Time: 9am - 5pm
Pre-requisite: Open to students who have taken Brain Gym 101
Course Fee (includes lunch):
- Before October 1: $330 No GST (Australian Dollars only)
- After October 1: $370
- Review: $185
Learn how to integrate the Three Dimensions while standing, with backwards, sideways and forwards repatterning movements and colour. Patti has developed this workshop herself. She says that she has found that Three Directional Repatterning is a way of integrating the Past, being centered in the Present and being able to move forward positively into the Future.
Instructor: Patti Leahy Shrewsbury, International Edu-K Faculty, Australia
Patricia Leahy-Shrewsbury is an International Faculty member of the Educational Kinesiology Foundation USA, an Advanced Touch for Health instructor and Proficiency Assessor. Patti teaches internationally and is author of the inspirational book, Human Crystals.
In 1999 Patti received an award from the Edu-K Foundation for outstanding service & achievement. In 2001 the AKA awarded her for outstanding contribution to the growth and awareness of Kinesiology within the community.
Double Doodle Play: A Window To Whole-Brain Vision - 8 hours
With Glenys Leadbeater
Date: January 13th (Tuesday) 2009
Time: 9am - 5pm
Prerequisites: None and all art materials are provided
Course Fee (includes lunch):
- Before October 1: $165 No GST (Australian Dollars only)
- After October 1: $185
- Review: $95
Come for a day of playful Double Doodle drawing and painting. In this introductory course we will use the Double Doodle and other movements from Brain Gym and Vision Gym® to explore and enhance visual perception and artistic expression. Participants will, through experience and discussion, gain a finer understanding of the relationship between visual skills, hand-eye coordination and creative expression. Applications for parents, teachers and various age groups will be addressed.
Discover:
- Your own innate ability to draw and paint
- New ways to connect with colour, shape, and movement
- The informative nature of the design process
- The mystery of co-creative drawing
- A new way to journal your experiences
- Joy, ease, and serendipity in creative expression
Learn how the following abilities affect reading and fine-motor skills:
- Crossing the visual/kinesthetic midline
- Binocularity for working in the midfield
- The internalisation of early developmental movement
- Spatial awareness and depth perception
- Self-perception as it regards movement and tactility
Instructor: Glenys Leadbeater, NZRN, Dip Op Th. International Edu-K Faculty New Zealand
One of the founders of Edu-K in New Zealand, Glenys became a member of Faculty in 1992. Over the last 20 years, she has experienced extensive training with the founder of Educational Kinesiology, Dr Paul Dennison and now teaches Double Doodle Play, Brain Gym 101®, Vision Circles, Brain Organisation Profiles, Edu-K In Depth, Teacher Practicum and the advanced classes: Movement Re-Education, Total Core Repatterning, and Double Doodle Teacher Training.
Master Class with Paul Dennison- 8 hours
Date: January 14th (Wednesday) 2009
Time: 9am - 5pm
Pre-requisite: Open to all students of Brain Gym
Course Fee (includes lunch):
- $250 No GST (Australian Dollars only)
- Review: not available
Dr Dennison has not been to Australia since 2001 so take advantage of this rare opportunity to come and spend a day with the founder of Educational Kinesiology, Dr Paul E. Dennison.
Come with specific goals and questions to help create this unique environment that will allow for new free-flowing knowledge and application of the Edu-K process. Get the answers direct from the creator of Brain Gym.
Find out more about:
- the latest in Edu-K
- the Dynamic Brain
- the new Brain Gym 101 Handbook
Paul will demonstrate movements and procedures you have been unsure about.
Instructor: Paul Dennison, Ph.D.
Paul Dennison is a professional educator, pioneer in applied brain research and world authority on cognitive skills and reading achievement. He received his doctorate in education for his research on reading and cognitive development. His clinical research in the USA on the causes and treatment of learning difficulties resulted in the development of the Educational Kinesiology and Brain Gym® programs with his wife Gail Dennison. These programs are now used in more than 80 countries worldwide and translated into more than 40 languages.
In 1999 the Dennisons' received the prestigious Reading Excellence through the Arts Award from the International Reading Association for their exemplary work on behalf of children, teachers, literacy and the arts.
Visioncircles Teacher Training - 32 hours
With Julie Gunstone
Date: January 15th - 18th (Thur, Fri, Sat and Sun) 2009
Time: 9am - 5pm
Prerequisite: Visioncircles twice, Creative Vision, Brain Gym Teacher Practicum,
and currently up to date.
Course Fee (includes lunch):
- Before October 1: $660 No GST (Australian Dollars only)
- After October 1: $740
- Review: $370
Participants experience the ways vision is expanded and enlarged by the other senses and learn how to facilitate sensory awareness and perceptual skills in others. This class is a requirement for licensure as a Visioncircles Instructor.
Switched On Selling - 8 hours
With Heather Gibbons
Date: January 15th (Thursday) 2009
Time: 9am - 5pm
Pre-requisites: Open to all
Course Fee (includes lunch):
- Before October 1: $165 No GST (Australian Dollars only)
- After October 1: $185
- Review: $95
The Switched-On Selling Seminar is a dynamic training program on the cutting edge of 21st century technology using Brain Gym® movements. This is a practical and exciting hands-on training experience that integrates the left and right hemispheres of the brain. This integration enables you to ‘switch on' the central nervous system for each step in the selling process. Utilise your full potential to create greater business effectiveness and success!
In this one day seminar learn how to:
- BREAK through sales blocks
- PREVENT sales burn-out
- TAKE the chill out of cold calling
- TURN OFF stress and negative emotions
- TURN ON feelings of wellbeing
- MANAGE your time
- DO your paperwork
- ENERGISE your day with a 7 minute tune-up
- COMMUNICATE with ease and power
The Switched-On Selling Seminar was developed by Dr Jerry V. Teplitz and is based on the work of Dr Paul Dennison.
Instructor: Heather Gibbons, Brain Gym Instructor Australia
Heather has been studying stress management and accelerated learning techniques since 1991. She is passionate about using Educational Kinesiology in the primary classroom where she has had 30 years teaching experience.
Heather is an accredited instructor in Brain Gym 101, Vision CirclesTM and Optimal Brain OrganizationTM.
Total Core Repatterning - 24 hours
With Glenys Leadbeater
Date: January 16th - 18th (Fri, Sat and Sun) 2009
Time: 9am - 5pm
Prerequisite: In-Depth and preferably the TFH 42 muscles
Course Fee (includes lunch):
- Before October 1: $495 No GST (Australian Dollars only)
- After October 1: $555
- Review: $280
Learn about the Primary Postural Reflexes that interfere with learning and mature motor control. This course focuses on the recognition of primitive homolateral reflexes and how they can become integrated using the repatterning process as taught by Dr Paul Dennison.
These tools are useful for helping all individuals, regardless of neurological or physiological limitations. An understanding of the Touch for Health 42 muscles is helpful although these will be covered in the course.
Learn how to Check and Balance:
- the Asymmetrical Tonic Neck Reflex
- the Symmetrical Tonic Neck Reflex
- the TMJ (Tempero-mandibular joint)
Learn how to Re-pattern the Gaits and Cloacals.
Instructor: Glenys Leadbeater, NZRN, Dip Op Th. International Edu-K Faculty, New Zealand
One of the founders of Edu-K in New Zealand, Glenys became a member of Faculty in 1992. Over the last 20 years, she has experienced extensive training with the founder of Educational Kinesiology, Dr Paul Dennison and now teaches Double Doodle Play, Brain Gym 101®, Vision Circles, Brain Organisation Profiles, Edu-K In Depth, Teacher Practicum and the advanced classes: Movement Re-Education, Total Core Repatterning and Double Doodle Teacher Training.
Movement Dynamics - 16 hours
With Gillian Johnson
Date: January 15th and 16th (Thursday and Friday) 2009
Time: 9am - 5pm
Pre-requisite: Open to students who have taken Brain Gym 101
Course Fee (includes lunch):
· Before October 1: $330 No GST (Australian Dollars only)
· After October 1: $370
· Review: $185
This course offers a series of Action Balances including: Non-verbal Communication, Self-Mastery and Living in Celebration.
New menu includes:
- More than 30 variations on the basic Cross Crawl activity for Laterality, Centering and Focus.
- Flow Medleys, a sequence of Brain Gym, Vision Gym and related movements done to music.
- A variety of other activities ranging from slow gentle, lying down movements to stimulating pre-activities which explore ideas, sounds and visual perceptions as well as movement in many situations, individually, with a partner or with the whole group.
This 2 day course is an extension of the original 1 day course with new material added.
Instructor: Gillian Johnson, National Edu-K Faculty, Australia
Gillian has always loved to dance and brings this passion, together with her experience and personal exploration of various movement programs into her teaching of the Movement Dynamics course. She's been a Brain Gym Instructor for over 20 years, having attended her first Edu-K In Depth course with Paul Dennison in San Diego in 1984. She also teaches Visioncircles and OBO and is a member of the Australian Edu-K Faculty. As well as teaching in Australia she has also taught internationally, in Singapore, South Africa and most recently in Japan.
Connecting with Self and Others: Life-Enriching Communication - 16 hours
With Paula Wilson
Date: January 17th and 18th (Saturday and Sunday) 2009
Time: 9am - 5pm
Pre-requisite: Open to all
Course Fee (includes lunch):
· Before October 1: $330 No GST (Australian Dollars only)
· After October 1: $370
· Review: $185
Imagine the peace, ease and “on-top-of-the-world” sensation that come from enriching your capacity for communication and connection with people of all ages within families, educational settings or work situations. The two-day course offers a practical process to:
- Quieten those inner critical voices.
- Speak your mind and be fully heard.
- Understand that everyone’s needs really matter and can be met peacefully.
- Resolve conflict without blame or judgment.
- Be fully present when people are in distress.
- Give yourself “emergency empathy” when buttons get pushed.
Use Brain Gym® movements and activities to help you connect with your full potential, deepen learning, and integrate new patterns of communication for natural and fluent use in real life situations. You celebrate the skills you have and draw out learning in areas for which you are ready, through a synthesis of Non-violent Communication (NVC) also known as Compassionate Communication, Edu-K and music.
Instructor: Paula Wilson (M.Ed.), Brain Gym Instructor, Australia
Paula’s passion is to bring a life-enriching and compassionate way for people to connect, communicate and move together, to communities worldwide. Paula began teaching communication skills in 1989 and this path eventually led her to discover Non-Violent Communication (NVC), also known as Compassionate Communication, which offers a real and effective alternative to talking around situations or going into reaction. As a learning consultant with a focus on interaction, she has assisted people of all ages, within families, educational settings and the workplace for 19 years. Paula teaches Brain Gym 101 and Optimal Brain Organisation™.
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