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Brain-centric Design

by Rich Carr

With Brain-centric Design: The Podcast, you learn to manage the brain to acquire and apply knowledge and skills. Picture you, presenting your information to any audience, and that audience deeply understanding what you presented and acting accordingly.The Learning Sciences provide new insights as to how the brain accepts new information, and how people love to learn. So, if you're a Coach with a Workshop, a Trainer with a Course, a Salesperson with a Pitch, or Parent with a Plan, or a Teacher with a Class, each episode outlines a specific chunk of BcD for you to experience, understand, and ignite with your information, to any audience, for deep understanding.It's not clever...It's science!

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Episodes

  1. Assuring Psychological Safety

    Kieran O'Mahony, PhD, is a Learning Scientist in Cognitive Neuroscience. He's mapped and scientifically demonstrated how the brain accepts – that's important – information, and how learners' brains love to learn. Today's most high-value work is cognitive in nature. This means, if you're a…

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  2. How to Defend An Amygdala Hijack with Sheila Hamilton

    Five-time Emmy Award-Winning journalist, Sheila Hamilton from Beyond Well with Sheila Hamilton, the fastest growing mental health podcast in the world, visits with Rich on how to avoid or defend an Amygdala hijack by giving you a world-class view of what is, and why you control it. LINKS: Beyond...

  3. The Visual Language of Comics

    Neil Cohn joins us today as the internationally recognized researcher on the overlap of sequential images and language in cognition. How comics make you think. Human beings have three ways they can create thoughts to each other: 1) Sounds 2) Body Movements, Gestures 3) Drawings That's it. "What...

  4. Educational Change Starts Now. With Me.

    Missy Widmann has always had a passion for education, technology, neuroscience, health, fitness, and community. Fortunately, her newest endeavor includes all of them. Missy currently serves as an educational consultant, supporting teachers and schools in integrative technology and connecting...

  5. Avoiding The Dangers of Measurement

    Science looks at labeling and stratification and sees dangers defined as limiting the learner and the facilitator. As we at Brain-centric Design like to say; Diversity Of Learning...placing the value on thoughts and experiences around a concept and discussing that paradigm after multiple...

  6. Brain Fog & Your Gut

    Dr. Steven R Gundry is best known for his claims that lectins, a type of plant protein found in numerous foods, cause inflammation resulting in many modern diseases. Today we explore why what you're eating may be handicapping your brain function. Also known as brain fog or mental fog, clouding of...

  7. Implementing Brain-centric Design

    With all change in the world, did you ever think there would be a new way of acquiring and applying knowledge and skills? Advancements in neuroscience led to the cognitive learning sciences. Brain-centric Design is this methodology for business. A basic two-part process of organizing your...

  8. Birth of Cognitive Learning Sciences

    Kieran O'Mahony details the history of the Cognitive Learning Science pedagogic model of Brain-centric Design, and why it is changing the way people think, learn and educate another. Kieran's journey of discovery is now changing the way we acquire and apply knowledge & skills in K-12 schools and...

  9. The Brain As A Learning Tool

    There is a new way to learn. Twenty-first Century learners will be based in cognition, required to have adaptive expertise as well as a growth mindset. The problem is K-12 and business learning still us a model of learning that continues to not deliver the learners they need. Brain-centric…

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  10. The Heart of the Dog

    One of the secrets to getting any brain's attention, is to first answer this question for the person about to receive your message: "What's in it for me, here and now?" How does the world's greatest marketer use this sexy brain bit from Brain-centric Design to get your brain's attention in their...

  11. Before & After Brain-centric Design

    "Brain-centric Design took the guesswork out of the classroom and highlighted the scientific reasons behind the success. It felt great to identify the positive traits of cognitive flexibility, social-emotional engagement, and adaptive expertise that I already possessed." — Ellen Thompson, Fortune...

  12. On The Shoulders Of Giants

    With Brain-centric Design, the new 3Rs—Reflect, Revised Thinking, and Report Out—define processes and practices that change that original and outdated paradigm. Paradoxical and delightful outcomes emerge. Even though the focus is not on reading, writing, or arithmetic, these same proficiencies...

  13. The Beginning of BcD

    When learners are given the choice of an engaging brain-centric method versus a traditional memory-centric approach, they immediately perceive the difference and are happy to abandon the old way for Brain-centric Design. Everyone deserves to live in a world where the greatest pleasure in...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

With Brain-centric Design: The Podcast, you learn to manage the brain to acquire and apply knowledge and skills. Picture you, presenting your information to any audience, and that audience deeply understanding what you presented and acting accordingly.The Learning Sciences provide new insights as to how the brain accepts new information, and how people love to learn. So, if you're a Coach with a Workshop, a Trainer with a Course, a Salesperson with a Pitch, or Parent with a Plan, or a Teacher with a Class, each episode outlines a specific chunk of BcD for you to experience, understand, and ignite with your information, to any audience, for deep understanding.It's not clever...It's science!

HOSTED BY

Rich Carr

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With Brain-centric Design: The Podcast, you learn to manage the brain to acquire and apply knowledge and skills. Picture you, presenting your information to any audience, and that audience deeply understanding what you presented and acting accordingly.The Learning Sciences provide new insights as...

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