Brain and Change One and Working with Trauma (Dec 2020)

Welcome to the Brain and Change one and Working with Trauma Online Classroom!  Please view the Learning Modules below.

Please make a note of all of the required and optional meetings and deadlines associated with this course.

Required Due Dates:

F2F Reflection sheet due: 12/18/20

Brain and Change 1 Module

Initial Post due: 12/21/20.  Responses and Summary Posts: 1/1/21

Working with Trauma Module

Initial Post due: 1/11/21.  Responses and Summary Posts due: 1/22/21

Optional Meetings: 

Toolbox Integration Webinar (Brain and Change 1),  12/30, 6pm MT

Toolbox Integration Webinar (Working with Trauma) 1/20/21, 6pm MT

Please RSVP for the Toolbox Integration webinars at least 24 hours in advance by going to this page: https://learningcenter.earthbasedinstitute.org/ncc-student-rsvps-and-links/

Also, while at the scheduling page, take a moment to RSVP for any upcoming Practice sessions, Toolbox Business Mentoring webinars, and ICF Mentor Coaching webinars at 24 hours in advance.  

Fill out the RSVP form with information about the topic you would like to discuss during the webinar.  This form will go directly to Michael or to the mentor who is hosting the meeting.  You will receive a reminder before the webinars.  If you have not previously attended ICF Mentor Coaching, please let Michael know it will be your first webinar.

To go directly to the zoom meeting by clicking on the corresponding button, return to the same page, https://learningcenter.earthbasedinstitute.org/ncc-student-rsvps-and-links/  

REQUIRED READINGS –  Brain and Change and Trauma Modules

• Pages 138-184- Review, My Stroke of Insight, Taylor, J.B. (2009). Plume, NY.  *PDF LINK
• Chapters: 1 – 4, 8 – 9, and 16 – 17, Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology: An Integrative Handbook of the Mind, Siegel, D. J. (2012). W. W. Norton & Company. 
• Chapters: 1, 3, 7, and 9, Your Brain on Nature: The Science of Nature’s Influence on Your Health, Happiness, and Vitality, Selhub, E. M. (2012) Wiley Publishers.
• Chapters: 1, 4, and 5, Why God Won’t Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief, Newberg, A., d’Aquili, E., Rause, V. (2001). New York, NY: Ballantine.
• Chapters 1 – 2 – Encouraged: Part 2, Changing for Good: A Revolutionary Six-Stage Program for Overcoming Bad Habits and Moving Your Life Positively Forward, Prochaska, J., Norcross, J., Diclemente, C. (2007) William Morrow Paperbacks. *PDF LINK
• “Self, Soul, Spirit: A Current Working Model for Understanding Human Development”, Strachan, R. T.,  Reid, M. (2011). Center for Creative Choice. *PDF LINK
• Trauma and Wilderness by Katie Asmus and Kendall McDevitt *PDF LINK

SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS:

Start reading these books and incorporating them into your posts and process.  There will be no assigned readings for them, but it is essential that you read them.  They are directly applicable to every Toolbox module

• Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation, Siegel, D.J. (2010). Bantam Books.
• Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself, Singer, M. (2007). New Harbinger Publications