Dr. Carla Hannaford

Speaker Topic:

Awakening The Child Heart

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Biologist, Author, Educator

Dr. Carla Hannaford is a biologist, author, and educator with more than 40 years of teaching experience, including 20 years as a professor of Biology and four years as a school counselor for children with learning difficulties.  Since 1988 she has been an internationally recognized educational consultant and workshop leader to more than 50 countries, and cited in more than 1,000 books and journals on the science behind learning, Brain Gym®, and how to live a healthy and growthful life.  She was selected as a guest educator to the AHP—Soviet Project, and has been recognized by Who’s Who in American Education and received many awards for her work on the planet.  She is the author of four best-selling books:  SMART MOVES,  AWAKENING THE CHILD HEART,  THE DOMINANCE FACTOR , and PLAYING  IN THE UNIFIED FIELD.  

You can learn more about Dr. Hannaford on her website:


http://www.carlahannaford.com/

 

Highlights:

  • What is the effect of a parent’s stress on the child?

  • How do we honor a child's wisdom - the art of listening, being present, being coherent, & trusting the child's knowing?

  • What is the importance of integrated movement, touch, and play?

  • How brain dominance begins in utero and can inform our understanding of our child.

  • What is the role of the vestibular system as it develops in utero and the early years?

  • What are mirror neurons and their impact on children?

  • What is Brain Gym (TM) & how does it affect coherence?

  • Why is it important to activate both brain hemispheres?

  • What brain-balancing movements can help our children, and ourselves, in our everyday lives?

  • What is the impact of early walking on the child’s developing pelvic girdle?

  • Ways that digital learning is negatively impacting children’s learning, senses, & hand development, and the critical importance of technology boundaries.

  • How the flicker from a computer screen affects cortisol within a child’s brain.

  • How can we help children trust their own inner knowing?

  • How formations in nature help children understand their world, through mathematics, science, relationships, etc.