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Mary Nicholls B.A., Dip.Ed, is a practitioner and instructor member of the Australian Kinesiology Association and is a licensed Brain Gym/Educational Kinesiology Instructor/Consultant. She is also a qualified and experienced workplace trainer and assessor, and a qualified English as a Second Language teacher with eighteen years experience.
Mary is passionate about Brain Gym and Edu-K and loves to share the information with students and clients.
What Brain Gym Can Do For You®
Can you remember a time when you were so angry you couldn't get any words out? Or a time when you felt entirely misunderstood and couldn't find the words to explain yourself? Have you ever prepared a speech or presentation, stood up and forgotten what you had planned to say, or stumbled over the words? Have you ever been so overwhelmed by your workload and conflicting priorities that you stop functining efficiently? Do you sometimes spend hours at night worrying and not being able to get to sleep?
Do you ever experience a time when you are studying or reading something and after one or two pages realise you haven't taken in a word? Have you ever prepared really well for a test but couldn't remember what you'd learnt in the exam? Or, maybe, you did study hard for an exam and were able to answer the questions, but couldn't remember what you'd learnt after the course was over.
Brain Gym can make a difference.
Under stress our sympathetic nervous system triggers the fight or flight reflex. When this reflex is activated, blood flow to the cerebrum in the brain is shut off, and we have no choice in our responses.
Brain Gym movements release stress and allow us to reason rather than react. The movements stimulate different cognitive functions, including communication, comprehension and ability to think in an organised way. They are safe, quick and easy to do and are ideal to use at home, in a workplace, in a classroom, or even in the car (whilst stationary).
A very important advantage of using Brain Gym is that it helps develop mind/body awareness so you can recognise the physical, mental and emotional signs that you are tuning out and getting stressed, or letting your emotions take control. When you notice this you can so some of the movements quickly to "switch on" and function more effectively.
What is Brain Gym?
Brain Gym is a system of 26 easy, safe, energising physical activities which directly enhance brain function, within a short period of time, in some cases immediately. Dr Paul E. Dennison, Ph.D, an expert in child motor-development, developed Brain Gym over a period of 20 years from the 1970s. Brain Gym is based on over 80 years of research by specialists in the fields of movement, education and child development. The movements are not just for children or people with learning difficulties: they can help us perform any activity with ease and confidence.
How does it work?
Doing Brain Gym movements consciously activates the whole mind/body system, stimulating nervous-system activity equally in all parts of the brain and lessening the fight/flight reaction (the tendency to either struggle on or give up entirely) in stressful situations. Trying too hard “switches off” the brain-integration mechanisms necessary for complete learning. In this situation the dominant brain hemisphere takes over most mental processes. This can result in an inability to express or recall what has been learnt. Hence blanking out in an exam.
Brain Gym movements activate the left and right hemispheres of the neo-cortex equally and provide access to those parts of the brain which become inaccessible so learners can receive information and express themselves simultaneously. The movements stimulate different cognitive functions, including communication, comprehension and ability to think in an organised way.
EDUCATIONAL KINESIOLOGY
One of the major branches of Kinesiology, Edu-K uses the muscles in our body to monitor stress and imbalances, and muscle checking as a quick and efficient tool for noticing less than 100% integration between different brain dimensions for particular activities which may cause us stress, be overwhelming or be difficult to perform. It is used to help people make changes or achieve goals we are moving towards in all areas of life - including academic, school, sporting, personal and work.
How Can Brain Gym Be Experienced?
A private session with a consultant usually lasts for one to one and a half hours. It starts with you choosing a goal, something you wish to accomplish, something that would make your life easier or some potential within yourself you would like to develop.
Your consultant will then guide you through a process of choosing and performing activites related to your goal.
The Brain Gym/Edu-K process, called a 'balance' is complete when you feel and demonstrate improvements in your goal related communication and performance abilities.
Many people notice some kind of change almost immediately. Brain Gym/Educational Kinesiology is a very cost effecive process that allows you to easily and rapidly accomplish your goals.
Brain Gym can also be experience by attending either a one day course to learn the movements or a four day course to learn the balance processes and how to use them for yourself and others.
Mary regularly teaches the Brain Gym 101 Certificate course, the Optimal Brain Organisation Certificate course, plus one-day introductory courses - Brain Gym in Action at the Rosanna Fire Station community Centre in Rosanna, and in the corporate sector, as well as Brain Gym in the Classroom to teachers as professional development. She is interested in how Brain Gym helps adults and children learn more successfully and reduces stress around everyday activities at work, school and home.
See course dates for 2012 below.
Mary is particularly interested in sharing the benefits of Brain Gym for adults in the workplace to reduce stress and bring balance into their working life - for corporate wellbeing.
She enjoys teaching Brain Gym to parents and teachers who want to stop “doing it tough” and help their children and students achieve their full potential.
She provides individual Educational Kinesiology/Brain Gym consultations for adults and children at her practice rooms in Greensborough
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!
I AM HOME FROM AN EXTENDED OVERSEAS VISIT AND EXCITED TO START TEACHING AND SEEING CLIENTS AGAIN IN 2012
CONSULTATIONS
Please contact me on 9435 0349 or 0415 840 778 to make appointments for consultations in Greensborough
or email maryn@melbpc.org.au
CERTIFICATE COURSES FOR 2012
BRAIN GYM 101
4 DAY accredited course
You will learn the 26 Brain Gym movements, Educational Kinesiology balance procedures, kinesiology techniiques of muscle checking plus theory and background about the procedures. This course is a Pre-requisite for any further training in Educational Kinesiology.
BRAIN GYM 101 CLASSES FOR 2012 (32-hour certificate course)
WATSONIA
Weekend course
5th & 6th and 19th & 20th MAY, 2012
9.30am - 5.30 pm (32 hours)
OR
18th & 19th August and 1st & 2nd SEPTEMBER, 2012
9,30am - 5.30am (32 hours)
PLEASE BOOK EARLY to avoid disappointment and ensure the course will run.
HALF-DAY INTRODUCTION TO BRAIN GYM AND BRAIN GYM MOVEMENTS 2012
ROSANNA FIRE STATION COMMNUNITY CENTRE
Saturday 3rd March 10am - 1pm cost $75
OR
Monday 7th May 1pm - 4pm
PLEASE BOOK EARLY to ensure the course will run
OPTIMAL BRAIN ORGANISATION
3 day accredited Certificate course
The Optimal Brain Organisation course explains hemispheric dominance and the internal processes of Educational Kinesiology balance procedures learnt in the Brain Gym 101 course.
Learn the dynamic nature of brain organisation and how to address the momentary changes that can occur and to use the Edu-K balance process to access previously unacknowledged gifts and draw out latent potential through the whole-brain circuitry. The procedures are easily used for self-help as well as for supporting others towards a more enjoyable learning experience.
COURSES ORGANISED ON REQUEST
Contact details : 9435 0349 0415 840 778
maryn@melbpc.org.au
QUALIFICATION DETAILS
Mary is a Licensed Educational Kinesiology Instructor and consultant. and practitiner member of the Australian Kinesiology Association. She is a member of the Brain Gym Australia management committee.
She teaches Brain Gym 101 and Optimal Brain Organisation courses
as well as Brain Gym movement workshops for wellbeing in the workplace and in the classroom.
Brain Gym, Educational Kinesiology, Kinesiology
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