Brain Science Workshop w/ Dee Coulter

Say it, and then show it. Or show it and then say it. Don't do both at the same time.
Definition of 'mean': enjoying something for yourself and denying it to your child
When there's a child who is repititiously doing something bad, don't interrupt, give
them something positive to repeat.
Try modeling something through gestures instead of words.
Sharing Ages (The Roadmap)
Steiner's Indications
0-7
7-14
14-21
21-28
Cat has nine lives.
Visionary
Mortality is an abstract concept.
You could do anything.
28-35
Angels step back: you're on your own.
33 is a time of things falling apart: get divorced, lose your job, health-wise
- then rebuild your life
35-42
If you can be misunderstood, you will be. Everything falls back into place
when you're 38.
Laying groundwork for basic work that you're going to do. You may look
like you're jumping all over the place, like you can't make up your mind.
42-49
Doing the work that forms a major part of your life. Getting the bugs
ironed out. Successful phase.
49-56
"The big frisbee throw." This is about the biggest you're going to get, if
you have the freedom. This is where the big impact happens.
56-62
For men, it can be a time of soaking it up. It's a risky time for the health, if
a man doesn't learn to go inward.
63-70
Can be the first time of major blossoming into the universe for women.
70-77
Big responsibilities come to you, again.
77-84
Health crisis comes during this phase.
"Form and freedom"
Self-regulation
Biofeedback studies on hypertension. Discovered how to teach people to lower
their blood pressure, but this led to a problem because people couldn't "rise to
the occasion" when they needed to. They had to teach people to raise and
 lower their blood pressure.
Personality typology in children
Stimulus reducer
Child that tends to dampen stimulated states because they dislike them.
Stimulus augmenter
Child that tends to augment stimulated states because they enjoy them.
TASK. List the children by stimulus-reducer v. stimulus-augmenter
Question: the ability of children just to get bored and be in their mind
1/3 of college-aged study subjects chose intermittent painful stimulus as
opposed to nothing at all while sitting in an empty room
Brain science
Astrocytes ("star cells") will release. When a pattern is understood, specialized
brain cells spin like a centrifuge, and it releases large amounts of glucagon from
the astrocytes to that region to feed the local cells involved in that pattern.
Children should in theta brainwaves while at play, whether active or passive play.
When children have had an a-ha, you can ask children what it felt like before the
a-ha, to help them understand that it might feel dull or frustrating first.
High-arousal theta is when the mind is in theta and the muscles are active, and
it's necessary for some people to have epiphanies or for some kinds of
epiphanies.
Eliminate praising, except in very limited circumstances. Why do I have the feeling
that causes me to praise? What can I do instead?