This was amazing. I took two short workshops with him in California, have listened to a number of youtube videos by Dr. Siegel, and have read his books. This was succinct and talks about a way of making important changes in the "minds" of our children, which will change the future of the mind and our culture. Sorry! I am so enthused by this video...listen to it, walk away with it. And, funny enough for me, I was a dancer who became a psychologist. Loved it!
Hi Andrew, I can see where the fascination comes from. I was a dancer too turned painter and then psychologist. This is a historical turning point into our understanding of the mind body connection that is ever so promising and beneficial on many levels. Exciting times indeed...
I have been a teacher for 29 years, and my husband a principal/superintendent for 36. We've always been frontiers with embedding social/emotional education as a daily part of teaching. I actually retired early to work solely on what is lacking in our schools - instead of parents/teaching telling teens what NOT to do, we're training college students to lead these teens in what TO do. It's not rocket science. If you want to sell drugs, alcohol, or leadership to teens, get a cool college student who is a true role model; our problem is we don't have any role models anymore, especially for boys.
I'm really grateful for having his book "The whole Brain child" in my hand !I've never been studying psychology but after becoming a mom I decided to study child psychology to start a beautiful journey with my kids & I started with The whole Brain.I must say it's mind blowing & easy to understand even for a beginner like me! I'm planning to make a presentation on that book so I my other friends who can't read the whole book can get the benefits too....!
First let him be Trump's psychiatrist, as the impaired relatiomnship/mind/brain ciricuirtry of the latter adds a bit too much fuel(thanatos) to threaten the survival of humanity!
Thank you Dr. Siegel. Very informative and engaging Tedtalk. I often refer your books to my clients, as well as your RU-vid videos. They find the name it to tame it videos quite helpful and clarifying.
This was amazing to hear that we can help children learn and make them feel good of themselves. Its really interesting to hear also that our mind is a key part in our social area, and many things we do in this world will effect that. I agree that teachers need to work hard and should be aware of these circumstances in the fact that it can truly help children grow as they get older.
Thanks for posting this excellent, important talk! I love Daniel Siegel's work, and this talk is a great overview. I'd love to hear him talk further about whether any schools are dealing with the other three R's, and what parents can do to help their children develop more mindsight.
I was homeschooled by a mother who was agoraphobic, I learned the basics, stopped learning at 9 years old. I must have developed resilience, because I went straight into college at 25, now 42 and a PsyD student, straight A's all through college. Explanation?
....I get the point of what he was trying to communicate and do not disagree with a need to incorporate a more balanced approach in educating the whole human organism, but after his 16 minute lecture with zero examples or actual facts profferred, i am nonplussed. This lecture would never make the cut at an actual TED conference. Dust it off and try again 'Dr.' Siegel.
It's all very nice and inspiring (I heard some of his longer speeches) but as organized religion failed, organized secular education will. First the issues preventing the healthy mind do happen in family. Trying to rewire that in school is better than nothing but I'm afraid it will push the policy deeper to 'abandon your kids, the system will take care of them'. Second you don't balance your mind/personality bc you'll be encouraged to meditate or study your mind - it has to be voluntary.
Neural integration is the heart of health... 10:20 in your body, in your mind, not just in our relationships with one another but with the whole planet. Three irreducible elements of well being... brain, mind, relationships.
I DO NOT Get the 'brain' thing. Why not just Mind-brain as one? My beings baulks whenever he says brain (there will be a reason)... For I love what he is suggesting here!
"The Neuro-biology of We" - By Daniel Seigal....... most amazing 9 hours of audio I've ever listened to!;p He explains in detail everything he just discussed here.. listen to it!!!
@Vikingbrute If you need this oresentation prescribed to you then it obviously doesnt apply to you. "Horses for courses" Siegel articulated quite well alot of what I feel and think and further in the field of trying to break the cycle of dependency he is spot on.
When Dr Siegal said NO NO NO ... YES YES YES..... I only heard the sound. I did not interpret the meaning of the sound. Is it OK or we need to interpret and react accordingly for mindfulness.
Another interesting approach and quite helpful in being more specific about the mind, fragmentation of it, true Self and how to balance it all can be found on GERCACN channel here on youtube. I recommended it very much.
The message is positive but I found it a bit non-specific/vague. It's hard to explain everything in a 15 min talk no doubt but possibly directed so much towards the layman that the rational foundations were lost? Feels a bit like I'm a blind person and just listened to 15 min of how awesome it is to see, but left no better off in my understanding of vision or basic details that would have allowed me to appreciate what was talked about. He has a clear idea in his mind, but the message seems to be "take my word for it, I know what's best" without really presenting specific evidence to support the ideas.
Can anyone explain to me what "emotional intelligence" mean? Is it medically/ scientifically possible to define or acknowledge "spirituality?" Psychiatry is a very fascinating field. I really want to understand the minds of evil criminals and mass murderers. I also want to understand if everyone is equally prone to suicide under the same external stimuli. The human condition is as vast as the universe and I would like to study it with facts so I can somehow help my fellow humans in distress.
You cannot or shoud not make such sweeping generalization, caricatures as "evil criminals" or "mass murderers." You have to take individual biopsychosocial histories of that individual into account. However, rthe common thread, almost without exception in those those who are sadistic or worse place their sadism into actions as in dictatorships is a severe "Lack of theory of mind" (that is, "empathy") which was caused or the experiential conditions coalesed from severe early childhood trauma (child abuse).
Every time he says "and we know what to do" he immediately returns to metaphorical blather. This isn't the talk to watch if "what we know how to do" is what you want to know how to do.
Out of 100 plus TED talks i've watched, this one has the least actual information. He speaks like a politician, stringing colorful 'catch' phrases together that have very little actual content. Makes declarative statements with no verification or follow through. "our brains are 'literally' in a prison. m'kay?"
Boring. Really really boring. Concept after concept after concept. Hardly any evidence provided at all. Like almost none. He's not going to get to the real TED stage unless he seriously ups his game.
You sir are a complete idiot and moron extraordinaire! Obviously, the neuronal connections that constitute your mirron neurons (empathy) are severely compromised/distrubed! MORON!
It's been a while since I was called a moron. :-) I guess we're all entitled to our opinions. You included Neilgs. I do, however, stand by my original assessment. The talk was nothing but a bunch of concepts with no scientific evidence to back it up. To me that's not being 'disturbed' - that's what I call sanity. But. Like I say. We're all entitled to our opinions - no matter how misguided they may be. Enjoy the rest of your evening.
It is not longer debatable but conclusively scientifically proven now for at least two decades, that is, the direct relatiohship between neuroplasticity and experience with respect to not only changing functionality but structure, i.e., neuronal pathways, the actual synchonized or asynchronous firing of neurons the integhrity of the mylein sheaths and the precise formation of synapses. You can start with Eric Kandell, 2000 Nobel Leecture on the Molecular Biology of Memory Storage: A Dialog between Genes and Synapses. The scientific evidence by Dan Siegal, Bruce Perry, Ed Tronic, Stanley Greenspan, Stuart Shanker, Peter Shonkoff, with respect to early childhood/primary caregiver heathy recirpocal affective attachment or diathesis directly determining healthy functional and structural differences in for example, synchronous neuronal firing and synpatic formation; increase or decrease in Amygdala, FFA or fusiform gyrus, expanded prefrontal cortex connections and so forth are, my dear Sir, actual scientific facts!
Do you have any links to any of that? Listening it to it again I think what you're up against - apart from the usual status-quo lethargy - is that you're possibly on the wrong side of history. The whole 'just say Yes!' is what we're currently moving away from - Brexit in the UK - Trump in the US - people want to say 'No!' to things at the moment. We've had enough 'safe-spaces' where the echo of 'yes' reverberates around the room - we've had enough of being told what's good for us. The political and social tide is the other way right now. Send me those links if you have them though.
Dear James, why don't you just dig for yourself and check the relevant data? The talk is just a brief introduction to something that people may find valuable and want to pursue further. The Internet is vast and full of all the information you are asking for. That's the beauty of the new education system which, I guess, even almost 9 years after this talk, many schools can't get. You want the proven data - go and find it :) P.S. Some people just know Dr. Dan Siegel and when he says something they don't need any data, can you believe it :)))
