Should Social-Emotional Learning Be Part of Academic Curriculum?

By Greater Good Science Center | August 22, 2008 |

The Secret to Suc­cess New research says social-emo­­tion­al learn­ing helps stu­dents in every way. — by Daniel Gole­man Schools are begin­ning to offer an increas­ing num­ber of cours­es in social and emo­tion­al intel­li­gence, teach­ing stu­dents how to bet­ter under­stand their own emo­tions and the emo­tions of oth­ers. It sounds warm and fuzzy, but it’s a trend…

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Meditation and The Brain

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 26, 2008 |

Superb blog arti­cle by Newsweek’s Sharon Beg­ley: The Lotus and the Synapse, intro­duc­ing a new Study that shows com­pas­sion med­i­ta­tion changes the brain. To read the orig­i­nal paper led by Richard David­son and Antoine Lutz, click Here. We will be cov­er­ing this in more detail next week.

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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and other stress management techniques

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 26, 2007 |

We have explained before how men­tal stim­u­la­tion is impor­tant if done in the right sup­port­ive and engag­ing envi­ron­ment. Stan­ford’s Robert Sapol­sky and oth­ers’ have shown that chron­ic stress and cor­ti­cal inhi­bi­tion, which may be aggra­vat­ed due to imposed men­tal stim­u­la­tion, may prove coun­ter­pro­duc­tive. Hav­ing the right moti­va­tion is essen­tial. A promis­ing area of sci­en­tif­ic inquiry…

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