Mindsight
by
Daniel Siegel M.D.
Jennifer Oldford
Turk Mac Donald
Agenda
• 1. Mindsight
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Definition
• Video
The 7th Sense
• Defining a healthy mind activity
• 2. Neuroscience
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Structure and function
• The Hand Model of the Brain (video)
Neuroplasticity
Connections to mindsight
• 3. Integration
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River of Integration
• Ridigity/Chaos/Both Activity.
8 Domains of Integration
• Right Brain/Left Brain Activity
• 4. Cultivating Mindsight
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Triangle of well-being
Attentive communication, attunement, resonance
• Communication activities
http://blogs.psychcentral.com/therapistwithin/files/2011/05/mindsight-G-Gawne-Kelnar.jpg
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Additional references and resources.
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Note: Blending the What?, So What? and the Now What?.
1. Mindsight
• DEFINING THE MIND:
o Task: Take a moment and jot down three
terms or phrases that would describe the
mind.
o Be prepared to share.
1. Mindsight
• Siegel’s definition:
o The human mind is a relational and
embodied process that regulates the flow
of energy and information.
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1. Mindsight
• human capacity to perceive the mind of self and
others
• powerful lens through which we can understand
our inner lives with more clarity, integrate the brain,
and enhance our relationships with others
• helps us get ourselves off of the autopilot of
ingrained behaviors and habitual responses
Video Link (10 Minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jwGU7h2HdY
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1. Mindsight
• The 7 Senses:
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o 1-5 = Ability to perceive the outside world
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• Sight, Sound, Smell, Taste, Touch
o 6 = Ability us to perceive our internal states
• Rapid beating heart, butterflies in our stomach, pain
from injury
o 7 = Ability to perceive our mind
• See and shape the inner workings of our mind, reflect
on experience
1. Mindsight
• Now What?
1. If this is something that helps, what is keeping us from it?
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2. Neuroscience
• Brainstem: ancient brain. Regulates basic
processes, states of arousal, fight-flight-freeze.
• Limbic System: emotions, evaluation of good vs
bad, forming relationships and emotional
attachment, memory
• Cerebral cortex: think, imagine, combine facts and
experiences, create
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2. Neuroscience
• Parts of the Brain Hand Model (Video):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm9CIJ74Oxw
2. Neuroscience
• Mindfulness and Brain function:
o Neuroplasticity: capacity to create new neural connections and new
neurons in response to experience
o Synaptogenesis: strengthening and creation of new synaptic connections.
o Focused awareness enables us to:
• voluntarily change a firing pattern that was laid down involuntarily.
• create neural firing patterns that permit previously separated areas to
become linked and integrated
o The brain becomes more interconnected and the mind becomes
more adaptive
2. Neuroscience
• Course connection:
Guest speaker Jennifer Sims
• Response flexibility: harnesses the power of the
prefrontal region to put a temporal space between
input and action.
2. Neuroscience
• Right brain/left-brain activity
o Blind-contour drawing
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• Edwards, B. (1999). The new drawing on the right side of
the brain. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam
2. Neuroscience
• Now What?
2.
a)How do we use an understanding of the functioning of the
brain to improve our teaching and interactions with students
and colleagues?
b) How do we get “teaching with the brain in mind” to
become a part of B.Ed. training?
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3. Integration
• a process by which separate elements are linked
together as a working whole.
• integration enables us to be flexible and free
• the lack of such connections promotes a life that is
either rigid or chaotic
• COMPLEXITY CHOIR?
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3. Integration
•River of Integration: the mindful balance between
structure and spontaneity
3. Integration
• Eight Domains of Integration:
1. Integration of Consciousness: build skills to stabilize attention.
Harness the power of attention to create choice and
change.
2. Horizontal Integration: balance the two sides to increase
creativity, richness and complexity of thought.
3. Vertical Integration: bringing bodily sensations into
awareness.
4. Memory Integration: making implicit memories explicit.
5. Narrative Integration: making sense of our lives by creating
stories that weave together narrator function with
autobiographical memory storage.
6. State Integration: embracing our many self-states as healthy
dimensions of ourselves.
7. Interpersonal Integration: connecting in relationships while
retaining our own sense of identity and freedom.
8. Temporal Integration: finding comfort in the face of
uncertainty, impermanence, and mortality.
3. Integration
• Rigidity/ Chaos/ Both activity
o DSM - Diagnosis
3. Integration
• Course connection:
• Yoga practice
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Integration of Consciousness and Vertical Integration
3. Integration
• Now What?
3. How do invite our staff to recognize Mindsight in their own
life? And use it to improve Interpersonal Integration?
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4. Cultivating Mindsight
• the triangle of well-being
4. Cultivating Mindsight
• Attunement and attachment
o Parent-child
o Other relationships
“The best predictor of a child's security of
attachment is not what happened to his
parents as children, but rather how his
parents made sense of those childhood
experiences.”
~ Dan Siegel from Mindsight
4. Cultivating Mindsight
• Activities for you and your students:
1. Non-verbal communication game of copying someone
else’s facial expression and guessing the emotion.
2. Non-verbal communication game of watching TV with the
sound off and letting your brain ‘fill-in the blank.’
3. Journaling about your day in pictures/smells/sounds to help
activate the senses
4. Journaling emotions
5. Finding words to depict our internal world
6. Making ‘mindmaps’ of how we see ourselves and our
relations with others.
7. Tensing and releasing certain muscle groups to become
aware of them
8. Having someone say ‘no’ in a harsh tone and then a nice
‘yes’ several times and discussing how it feels when both
words are said to you.
4. Cultivating Mindsight
• Focused Awareness:
o The Wheel of Awareness
• Video Link on the ‘Wheel’ Enjoy at your leisure
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODlFhOKahmk
4. Cultivating Mindsight
OTHER ACTIVITIES TO TRY:
• Body Scan
• Stay With That- a practice of noticing
and naming your feelings without
judgment
• Focusing on the breath
• Walking Meditation
• SIFT- process of deliberately accessing
your Sensations, Feelings, and Thoughts
4. Cultivating Mindsight
• Course connection:
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Purser (2014), Ergas (2013 & 2015), Hyland (2015)
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• Mindfulness vs Mindsight:
• Neuroscience separated from religious practice
• When we carry out a mindfulness practice of focused
awareness, we develop mindsight.
4. Cultivating Mindsight
• Now What?
4. How do we maintain the separation between providing
therapy and providing support & connectivity?
5. If there are other ways to stimulate neural growth, why
should we focus on mindsight?
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BIG AHA!
Why is mindsight important to
teachers?
1. Teaching is about
relationships and
interactions
2. Being aware of our own
awareness gives us
response flexibility
3. By modeling attentive
communication and
attunement we assist
students in their brain
development
4. Integration increases rate,
strength, and adaptability
of neural functioning
5. WELL-BEING
Re-cap Agenda
• 1. Mindsight
o
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• Defining the mind activity
Definition
• Video
The 7th Sense
• 2. Neuroscience
o
o
o
Structure and function
• The Hand Model of the Brain (video)
Neuroplasticity
Connections to mindsight
• 3. Integration
o
o
River of Integration
• Ridigity/Chaos/Both Activity.
8 Domains of Integration
• Right Brain/Left Brain Activity
• 4. Cultivating Mindsight
o
o
Triangle of well-being
Attentive communication, attunement, resonance
• Communication activities
http://blogs.psychcentral.com/therapistwithin/files/2011/05/mindsight-G-Gawne-Kelnar.jpg
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Additional references and resources.
•
Note: Blending the What?, So What? and the Now What?.
Other Works by Daniel Siegel:
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Siegel, D. & Fosha, D. (2009). The Healing Power of Emotion: Affective Neuroscience,
Development & Clinical Practice. New York, New York: WW Norton & Company,
Siegel, D. (2010). The Mindful Therapist: A Clinician's Guide to Mindsight and Neural Integration.
New York, New York: WW Norton & Company.
Siegel, D. (2010). Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation. New York, New York:
Bantam.
Siegel, D. & Bryson, T. (2011). The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your
Child’s Developing Mind, Survive Everyday Parenting Struggles, and Help Your Family Thrive.
New York, New York: Delacorte Press.
Siegel, D. (2012). The Developing Mind, Second Edition: How Relationships and the Brain
Interact to Shape Who We Are. New York, New York: Guilford Press.
Siegel, D. (2012). Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology: An Integrative Handbook of the
Mind. New York, New York: W.W. Norton & Company.
Siegel, D. (2013). Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain. New Tork, New York:
Penguin Putnam.
Siegel, D., & Hartzel, M. (2004). Parenting From the Inside Out: How A Deeper SelfUnderstanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive. New York, New York: Tarcher.
Siegel, D., & Bryson, T. (2014). No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos
and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind. New York, New York: Bantam.
Siegel, D. (2007). The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being.
New York, New York: WW Norton.
Siegel, D. (1999). The Developing Mind: Toward a Neurobiology of Interpersonal Experience.
New York, New York: Guilford Press.
Siegel, D., Hartzel, M. (2003). Parenting from the Inside Out. New York, New York: Tarcher.
The Whole Brain Child
9 Mindfulness Books to Start With
• Davidson, R., Begley, S. (2012). The Emotional Life of Your Brain.
London, England: Penguin Books.
• Hanh, T. N. (2015). Silence the Power of Quiet in a World Full of
Noise. New York, New York; Harper Collins Publishers,
• Kabat-Zinn, J. (1994). Where Ever You Go There You Are. New
York, New York: Hyperion Books.
• Langer, E. (2009). Counter Clockwise Mindful health and the
Power of Possibility. New York, New York: Random House Inc.
• Langer, E. (2014). Mindfulness 25th Anniversary Edition. Boston,
Massachusetts: De Capo Press.
• Langer, E. (1997). The Power of Mindful Living. Cambridge,
Massachusetts: Perseus Books.
• Neff, K. (2011). Stop Beating Yourself Up and Leave Insecurity
Behind. New York, New York: Harper Collins Publishers.
• Siegel, D. (2011). Mindsight the New Science of Personal
Transformation. New York, New York: Random House Inc.
• Williams, M., & Penman, D. (2011). Mindfulness an Eight-Week
Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World. New York, New York:
Rodale,