Reminding you there's still time to register for Brain Power Learning Group's 5 week Telecourse on Bullying, starting April 8th., 2009. For full details and to register visit www.brainpowerlearning.com/REGISTRATION.html
Friday, March 27, 2009
"Dealing With the Realities of Bullying" Telecourse
Reminding you there's still time to register for Brain Power Learning Group's 5 week Telecourse on Bullying, starting April 8th., 2009. For full details and to register visit www.brainpowerlearning.com/REGISTRATION.html
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Check out "Austentatious"
To all our readers in London, England.
Check out the hilarious new musical "Austentatious" at the Landor Theatre until March 26th., 2009
Its getting fabulous reviews and I can personally recommend it, having seen it in New York in 2007.
Its loosely (very loosely) based on Jane Austin's Pride and Predudice but don't go expecting to find much resemblance to the book. Many liberties have been taken and the result is a great evening out.
Naturally, I'm writing this from a purely objective point of view - I would not allow a family connection to colour my remarks!
Check out the hilarious new musical "Austentatious" at the Landor Theatre until March 26th., 2009
Its getting fabulous reviews and I can personally recommend it, having seen it in New York in 2007.
Its loosely (very loosely) based on Jane Austin's Pride and Predudice but don't go expecting to find much resemblance to the book. Many liberties have been taken and the result is a great evening out.
Naturally, I'm writing this from a purely objective point of view - I would not allow a family connection to colour my remarks!
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Latest Blog
Wow, what a difference a week makes. In less than seven days the new administration in Washington is paying attention to Education, its become cool to be smart and recognizing the importance of the Brain has become important.
What will the next week, the next month bring?
This week I am announcing our first Teleclass. On February 18th, please join us for a free (for ezine subscribers) one hour teleclass on Bullying. You can learn in the comfort of your own home by phoning in or by listening in on your computer (no long distance charges) from David Halstead, "The Brain Guy" the internationally known authority on Bullies & Bullying and author of the best selling book "The Bully Around the Corner: Changing Brains - Changing Behaviours".
We are firming up the details and I will be posting them asap. In the meantime contact me @ escape@mts.net to secure a place in this class.
Just a reminder to Whitelist the address in the "From" line of the ezine. Check with your mail server if you unsure how to do this. I'm getting more and more ezines returned as "Spam" because the hypervigilant spam filters reject any emails not on their whitelist or acceptable list.
So to ensure you get every issue please do this or change your address to your home address.
Many thanks.
More next time
What will the next week, the next month bring?
This week I am announcing our first Teleclass. On February 18th, please join us for a free (for ezine subscribers) one hour teleclass on Bullying. You can learn in the comfort of your own home by phoning in or by listening in on your computer (no long distance charges) from David Halstead, "The Brain Guy" the internationally known authority on Bullies & Bullying and author of the best selling book "The Bully Around the Corner: Changing Brains - Changing Behaviours".
We are firming up the details and I will be posting them asap. In the meantime contact me @ escape@mts.net to secure a place in this class.
Just a reminder to Whitelist the address in the "From" line of the ezine. Check with your mail server if you unsure how to do this. I'm getting more and more ezines returned as "Spam" because the hypervigilant spam filters reject any emails not on their whitelist or acceptable list.
So to ensure you get every issue please do this or change your address to your home address.
Many thanks.
More next time
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Brain news ezine Blog
In this blog I'm posting more Q & A's we've received on the ezine. We've had so many we can't publish them all in the ezine, hence the Blog posting. Here's one on Brain Based Learning:-
I am looking for brain cross over activities within an academic setting.
Tony
Hi Tony.
Thanks for the request: There is an ever growing amount of literature on the topic. I have written
Putting the Brain into the Classroom: 39 Brain Facts - 231 Teaching Strategies,
http://www.brainpowerlearning.com/PUTTINGTHEBRAINIntotheClassroom.html
The Bully Around the Corner: Changing Brains - Changing Behaviours
http://www.brainpowerlearning.comTheBullyAroundtheCorner.html
Peggy has a massive archival collection of previous Brain Facts on file as well there are other ar4ticles available on the website Contact Peggy at escape@mts.net
http://www.brainpowerlearning.com/BPLGBOOKSHOP.html
Monday, December 8, 2008
Ezine Question Corner
We had an enormous response to the Question Corner segment of the ezine last month. So large we cannot post all of the Q & A's in the ezine. So we will be including some of them in upcoming blogs. This is the first - with questions on bullying. For Dave's answer scroll down.
Hi, David
I really appreciate the succinct information about bullying.
Hi, David
I really appreciate the succinct information about bullying.
However, what I really need are strategies for penetrating
the lack of empathy that seems to grow in students who
get away with bullying
PS. What do you do when you work with someone in the
mental health field who is a bully? Her needs tend to get
met at the expense of everyone else, but no one seems
to recognize it as bullying.
(Subscriber in the USA)
PS. What do you do when you work with someone in the
mental health field who is a bully? Her needs tend to get
met at the expense of everyone else, but no one seems
to recognize it as bullying.
(Subscriber in the USA)
Hi ....
You have keyed in on an essential element of bullying ie. the inability to emotionally connect, in a mutual beneficial way, with others.
Bullying to a very large degree is due to a lack of emotional wellness. A motivating force for bullying is to secure or maintain a sense of emotional survival. Students and adults alike who feel personally unworthy, unattached, frustrated by lack of success, fear of risking to succeed etc are all likely to be a bully in one form or another.
In book The Bully Around the Corner I probably spend 75% of content dealing the emotional aspects of bullying and strategies to enhance emotional change. Then in the past six months I have written a complimentary piece called the Road Map which deals with meeting with the bully and dealing with his issues on a feelings level.
The problem one encounters when dealing with dysfunctional emotional memories (leading to dysfunctional behaviours) is that change is slow BUT it is the only way to affect change.
If you go to http://www.brainpowerlearning.com/TheBullyAroundtheCorner.html you will come upon the information- order page. The Canadian Dollar is about 82 cents US right now so the price is even better than it appears. Book price today is $33.58US, the Road Map is $16.35 together they are $46.65US
As to your last comment. Bullying is without doubt the most misunderstood and misinterpreted behaviour that frequents our work places, families and communities. I just had a retired University President comment about the amount of bullying that goes on between faculty and between faculty and students particularly graduate students.
I believe very strongly that the basis of all bullying is fear. For children and adolescents the fear is that they will not attain status. For adults the fear is that they will lose status. It is sad in the brain development arena which is our education system that there people who are bullies. In the The Bully Around the Corner book there is a section on Adult Bullies in the School. I wasn't going to put this in the book but when giving seminars and workshops the participants kept raising the issue.
Adult bullies in the workplace are at best tolerated, most often feared and are, almost to a person , the most incompetent, most inflexible and most destructive people in the system. They are however not without guile and know exactly how to finesse their way into the thinking of senior administration.
If you are willing to put your ego on hold and are able to bite your tongue there are some things you can try for the benefit of your students.
* Don't pressure her.
* Create scenarios which she can accept and run with, as her ideas.
* Try not to get yourself isolated. Such bullies are good at dividing and conquering.
* Try to get her dependent upon you, such as having her take a leadership/speaker role on some thing that only you have the expertise.
* Be her friend. Say Mildred I know you are really swamped with XYZ , could I help you there or with the ABC program that is vital to the Superintendent is promoting. Means more work for you but it also may allow you to get some of the things, you need to have, done.
* You can pray for certain things to happen. A new administrator may see through her and take administrative action, her husband will get transferred, she will retire, a university will believe her resume and take her on staff. I had an senior administrator who saw through my bully boss and had him transferred.
* Don't be afraid of being creative. These are not rational folk so there fore do not spend all your time thinking rationally.
I hope this info helps. Please write or contact me again. David Halstead, MEd.
You have keyed in on an essential element of bullying ie. the inability to emotionally connect, in a mutual beneficial way, with others.
Bullying to a very large degree is due to a lack of emotional wellness. A motivating force for bullying is to secure or maintain a sense of emotional survival. Students and adults alike who feel personally unworthy, unattached, frustrated by lack of success, fear of risking to succeed etc are all likely to be a bully in one form or another.
In book The Bully Around the Corner I probably spend 75% of content dealing the emotional aspects of bullying and strategies to enhance emotional change. Then in the past six months I have written a complimentary piece called the Road Map which deals with meeting with the bully and dealing with his issues on a feelings level.
The problem one encounters when dealing with dysfunctional emotional memories (leading to dysfunctional behaviours) is that change is slow BUT it is the only way to affect change.
If you go to http://www.brainpowerlearning.com/TheBullyAroundtheCorner.html you will come upon the information- order page. The Canadian Dollar is about 82 cents US right now so the price is even better than it appears. Book price today is $33.58US, the Road Map is $16.35 together they are $46.65US
As to your last comment. Bullying is without doubt the most misunderstood and misinterpreted behaviour that frequents our work places, families and communities. I just had a retired University President comment about the amount of bullying that goes on between faculty and between faculty and students particularly graduate students.
I believe very strongly that the basis of all bullying is fear. For children and adolescents the fear is that they will not attain status. For adults the fear is that they will lose status. It is sad in the brain development arena which is our education system that there people who are bullies. In the The Bully Around the Corner book there is a section on Adult Bullies in the School. I wasn't going to put this in the book but when giving seminars and workshops the participants kept raising the issue.
Adult bullies in the workplace are at best tolerated, most often feared and are, almost to a person , the most incompetent, most inflexible and most destructive people in the system. They are however not without guile and know exactly how to finesse their way into the thinking of senior administration.
If you are willing to put your ego on hold and are able to bite your tongue there are some things you can try for the benefit of your students.
* Don't pressure her.
* Create scenarios which she can accept and run with, as her ideas.
* Try not to get yourself isolated. Such bullies are good at dividing and conquering.
* Try to get her dependent upon you, such as having her take a leadership/speaker role on some thing that only you have the expertise.
* Be her friend. Say Mildred I know you are really swamped with XYZ , could I help you there or with the ABC program that is vital to the Superintendent is promoting. Means more work for you but it also may allow you to get some of the things, you need to have, done.
* You can pray for certain things to happen. A new administrator may see through her and take administrative action, her husband will get transferred, she will retire, a university will believe her resume and take her on staff. I had an senior administrator who saw through my bully boss and had him transferred.
* Don't be afraid of being creative. These are not rational folk so there fore do not spend all your time thinking rationally.
I hope this info helps. Please write or contact me again. David Halstead, MEd.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
The Joys of being a Grandparent.
Yesterday I called my daughter and my 2 year & three week old grandson got to the phone first.
He picked up the receiver and murmured "awoo" When I said Hi, N... he turned to his mother and yelled "Its Nanny".
The joy, wonder and delight in his voice transformed what had been a rotten day into one filled with sunshine - even though it was 7.30pm and pitch dark.
He picked up the receiver and murmured "awoo" When I said Hi, N... he turned to his mother and yelled "Its Nanny".
The joy, wonder and delight in his voice transformed what had been a rotten day into one filled with sunshine - even though it was 7.30pm and pitch dark.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
September Brain Facts Blog
For everyone in the Northern Hemisphere - Welcome to a new school year. (For our readers in the Southern Hemisphere I imagine you are starting the countdown to the end of your school year.)
Hope everyone's summer was great - not that the weather was anywhere it seems.
We had a wonderful event in August, a darling new granddaughter! Melissa, Born August 19th., (the day after my birthday) weighing 7lbs 14ozs and 19inches long, to our daughter and son in law, a sister for Nathaniel. Of course she is absolutely beautiful, sleep & eats and that's pretty much it.
We are still trying to recover from the excitement.
A reminder - our Back to School 2 for 1 sale ends Sept 30th 2008. Don't miss this special offer.
Visit our web site www.brainpowerlearning.com for full details.
If any reader has recommended the ezine to someone and that person signed up (I've been getting lots of sign ups lately), please let me know - your name and the name of the person who signed up. Under BPLG's Special Affiliate programme you have qualified for a special reward.
If you recommend any of our books, Bully Profiles, or the Brainclopedia to a colleague and they purchase any of these products you will receive 30% of the purchase price. This also applies to bulk purchases.
All for now,
Peggy Halstead,
Brain Power Learning Group.
Hope everyone's summer was great - not that the weather was anywhere it seems.
We had a wonderful event in August, a darling new granddaughter! Melissa, Born August 19th., (the day after my birthday) weighing 7lbs 14ozs and 19inches long, to our daughter and son in law, a sister for Nathaniel. Of course she is absolutely beautiful, sleep & eats and that's pretty much it.
We are still trying to recover from the excitement.
A reminder - our Back to School 2 for 1 sale ends Sept 30th 2008. Don't miss this special offer.
Visit our web site www.brainpowerlearning.com for full details.
If any reader has recommended the ezine to someone and that person signed up (I've been getting lots of sign ups lately), please let me know - your name and the name of the person who signed up. Under BPLG's Special Affiliate programme you have qualified for a special reward.
If you recommend any of our books, Bully Profiles, or the Brainclopedia to a colleague and they purchase any of these products you will receive 30% of the purchase price. This also applies to bulk purchases.
All for now,
Peggy Halstead,
Brain Power Learning Group.
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