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To help people who help people, the organization needs to be healthy and have practices in place that consider the trauma of those they serve. Lauren Spigelmyer and Jessica Doering have helped thousands of people who help people all over the world. Each week they'll explore tools, insights, and stories to help you lead and live with more clarity, calm, and connection. If you’re looking for support as you grow your organization’s capacity for caring for staff and the community, we would love to be part of that journey.
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Emotional Brain Parts and How Executive Functioning Heals It
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After giving a quick overview of the anatomical parts of the brain and their roles in functioning, Lauren moves focus to how we can strengthen and grow our executive functioning skills as a method of calming our limbic system.
Incorporating games and activities that strengthen executive functioning and cognitive flexibility at all ages helps to grow and strengthen these important skills. Strong executive functioning skills allow you to consciously assess situations instead of just reacting.
In this episode, Lauren gives examples of games and activities that you can use to build your executive functioning skills.
Lauren answers this week’s listener question during the episode: What do we do with students who dealing with behaviors they do not understand because they are too young?
Try-at-home tip: Empty days or Empty weekends
References & Resources:
Other related resources from The Behavior Hub:
Blog Post:
- The Brain in the Palm of Your Hand: Dan Siegel's Hand Model
- Reptilian Brain: Better Known as the Brain Stem
- Emotional Brain: The Barking Dog
- Thinking Brain: The Wise Owl
Podcast:
- The Brain in the Palm of Your Hand: Dan Siegel's Hand Model
- Emotion Regulation Using the Top Down or Bottom Up Approach
- The Barking Dog: Our Emotional Brain
- The Wise Owl: Better Known as Our Thinking Brain
Our Online Courses:
- Classroom Design with the Brain in Mind
- From Conflict to Calm: How to communicate with kids so they listen the FIRST time!
- 4 Simple Steps to Problem Solving
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