Kindling Touch Institute

Our love of learning can draw us so deeply into our studies that we slowly transform from learners into true scholars.

Inspiring the Adolescent and Adult Mind

12. Before and After Formal Thinking
13. Strategies for Scholarship: East and West
14. A Substantially New Way of Thinking NEW
15. The Inner Dynamics of Creativity
15B.Awakening the Scholar: a body-mind connection to learning NEW

For all who want to understand the amazing transformation into adulthood including those who are entering college or are teaching at the high school or college level. For teachers • students • parents • counselors • program developers • adult educators
• adult learners • educational and professional lending libraries

12. Before and After Formal Thinking

Some learners resist formal thinking because they lack the needed skills – attention and impulse control, ambiguity and boredom tolerance, useful inner speech and body posture. Still others resist because they aspire to a post-formal or general systems way of thinking. This fine tape offers ways to enter formal thinking and captures the essence of a world beyond it.

Audience: public school middle and high school teachers,

Frisco, Colorado. 93 min. $11.95

13. Strategies for Scholarship: East and West

The mind has many learning states we can enter once we discover how to alter our thinking strategies. Posture and breath, inner speech and inner movements, note taking and study patterns, diet, sleep, and incubation time are explored.

Audience: Boulder School of Massage students. 93 min. $11.95

14. A Substantially New Way of Thinking NEW

“We shall require a substantially new way of thinking”, Einstein said, “if mankind is to survive.” Embodied, frontal lobe learning may well be what Einstein was suggesting and it becomes possible if we approach studies from a general systems perspective. This kind of learning places special demands on the student and the teacher. This talk explores those demands and the role of the frontal lobes in learning, first from a neurological standpoint, and then from a more intuitive, experiential perspective.

Keynote Address: Spirituality in Education conference, University of Denver 93 minutes $11.95 (includes a handout)

15. The Inner Dynamics of Creativity

This extremely popular tape explores the very roots of creativity and the relationships between the body, mind and heart. How do inner gestures inspire creative expression? How can we incubate ideas effectively and know that is what we are doing? How can elegant compositions arise from that incubation process? How can we sustain the rigor to be productive?

Studio interview designed for radio broadcast. 93 min. $11.95 (This tape also listed in Arts section of catalog.)

15B.Awakening the Scholar: a body-mind connection to learning NEW
[a new upper level high school and college workbook; 114 pages, © 2001] This interactive text is enriched with questionnaires, checklists, suggestions for personal experiments, student discoveries and stories to accompany its neurological information. In the first two of the seven units, readers discover how their particular body can best support their mind and then explores ways to cultivate the will as a powerful resource for generating new scholarly skills. The next two units examine learning channels, learning stages and temperaments, cognitive states and ways to dissolve learning obstacles.
Then the reader is ready to explore the more traditional cognitive issues in a new light.
Memory, learned helplessness, attention, organization, reading and writing are all
presented in fresh ways that invite a transformation of one’s relationship to thinking.
The text closes with a unit on befriending two major learning obstacles, dyslexia and
closed head injuries and discovering the gifts that accompany those particular learning
challenges.
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