SPEAKERS

Dr. Dan Siegel
Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine

Dr. Dacher Keltner [slides]
Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley

Community Partnership for Mindfulness in Education (CPME) of Park Day School
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Laurie Grossman, Megan Cowan, Richard Shankman co-founders

SESSION DESCRIPTIONS

Dr. Dan Siegel, University of California, Los Angeles
Mindsight and Social and Emotional Intelligence
What is the "Mind" and why is it helpful to perceive it? In this session, we'll explore how the commonly used term, "mind," is rarely defined. Yet having a working definition of the mind(which we'll discuss) enables us to see how the mind is fundamental to our inner experience of well-being, our interpersonal relationships, and even how our brain functions. "Mindsight" is a term that refers to the teachable capacity to perceive and to shape the mind. This inner skill can be seen as the basis of social and emotional competence, and we'll introduce the ways that these skills interweave our neural, mental, and social lives.

Mindsight and Internal Education
The basic "three R's" of reading, 'riting, and 'rithmetic provide essential but insufficient skills for the growing child. A "fourth R" of reflection offers the chance to develop students' skills to perceive their inner lives and and to become more understanding of others. In this approach, we'll explore the interdependent nature of the mind, the body/brain, and our relationships with each other. When we see the mind itself with more clarity and depth, we then have the possibility to alter the way the inner world works and how our interpersonal relationships can honor the internal experience of others. These learnable skills of inner knowing are correlated with the functioning of an integrative area of the brain, the prefrontal cortex. This "internal education" thus becomes a way of training the mind to nurture the development of the executive prefrontal functions at the heart of resilience and that support academic success, and social, and emotional intelligence.

Dr. Dacher Keltner,  University of California, Berkeley
In this session he will talk about the evolution of human goodness. ÝHis talk will focus on the deep evolutionary origins of our caretaking capacities. ÝHe will detail how the deep origins of our capacity for goodness gave rise to emotions like love, compassion, awe, and gratitude, and how these emotions are built into our brains and bodies. Come hear a review of the science that shows that the cultivation of these emotions is the path to personal and social well-being and how we can foster this in children.

Panel and Experience: Decreasing Anxiety and Improving Student Behavior and with Simple Mindfulness Techniques: Community Partnership for Mindfulness in Education (CPME) of Park Day School - Laurie Grossman, Megan Cowan, Richard Shankman co-founders
Park Day School's Community Partnership for Mindfulness in Education launched their first pilot program at Emerson Elementary School in Oakland in March, 2007. Since that time, they have brought the program to 4,600 children in 19 schools, most of which serve low-income children in Oakland. Learn and experience their five week, 15 lesson series.  Discover how it teaches children and adults to focus and pay attention, reduce stress and enhance calm, and improve impulse control. Discuss the program's success in facilitating the building and sustaining of positive relationships. This interactive presentation will teach attendees a bit of mindfulness and offer several lessons that you can use in the classroom.

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

* (Must send (to ucbschpsyc@gmail.com) name and e-mail address of professor to verify enrollment. Students at all schools welcome.)

CEUs
Attendees will be given a certificate of attendance at the end of the day.  We do not have APA or BBS CEUs, due to the additional cost required for a one day conference.

Confirmations & Receipts
Confirmations of registration are sent via email. If you have not received confirmation within five days of the program, please let us know ucbschpsyc@gmail.com.  See attendee list (Scroll to bottom of the link to event brite page.)

SPEAKER BIOs

Dr. Dan Siegel received his medical degree from Harvard University and completed his postgraduate medical education at UCLA with training in pediatrics and child, adolescent and adult psychiatry. He served as a National Institute of Mental Health Research Fellow at UCLA, studying family interactions with an emphasis on how attachment experiences influence emotions, behavior, autobiographical memory and narrative. An award-winning educator, Dan Siegel is currently an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine where he is a Co-Investigator at the Center for Culture, Brain, and Development (cbd.ucla.edu) and is Co-Director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center (marc.ucla.edu). Dan Siegel is the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute, an educational organization that focuses on how the development of insight, compassion and empathy in individuals, families and communities can be enhanced by examining the interface of human relationships and basic biological processes. Dan Siegel is the author of the internationally acclaimed text, The Developing Mind: Toward a Neurobiology of Interpersonal Experience (1999). He serves as the Founding Editor for the Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology. His book with Mary Hartzell, M.Ed., Parenting from the Inside Out: How a Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive (2003) explores the application of this newly emerging view of the mind, the brain, and human relationships. His latest book is The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being (2007).
Link to his website.

Dr. Dacher Keltner is a Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.  He received his BA in Psychology and Sociology from UC Santa Barbara in 1984 and his PhD in Social Psychology from Stanford University in 1989. He then was a post-doctoral fellow for three years at UC San Francisco working with Paul Ekman. In 1992 he took his first academic job, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and then returned to Berkeleyís Psychology Department in 1996, where he is now a full professor. Dacherís research focuses on the biological and evolutionary origins of human goodness, with a special concentration on compassion, awe, love, and beauty, as well as the study of power, status and social class, and the nature of moral intuitions. Dacher is the co-author of two best selling textbooks, one on human emotion, the other on social psychology, and in January, 2009, will publish Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life, with WW Norton Publishers, which makes the case for an evolutionary approach to the emotions that promote human goodness. Dacher has published over 100 scientific articles, and has received numerous national prizes and grants for his research, and for his teaching and mentoring was selected as the Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor in 2002, and the Outstanding Teacher, Division of Social Sciences, in 2002 as well. Dacher also serves as the Director of the Berkeley Greater Good Science Center, where he serves as co-editor of the centerís magazine, Greater Good. Dacher lives in Berkeley with his wife, an alumna of Berkeley, and their two daughters. Link to his website.

Community Partnership for Mindfulness in Education (CPME) of Park Day School
Laurie Grossman, Megan Cowan, Richard Shankman co-founders
CPME has brought a five week mindfulness program to 4,600 children in 18 local schools. 

Laurie Grossman graduated from UC Berkeley in Spanish, and has spent her life working in low-income communities primarily with children. Her goal is to seek social justice and educational equity for at-risk children. In her 17 years at Park Day School, in Oakland, California she has launched a strong public/private partnership program to encourage the sharing of resources between public and private schools. She believes that The Community Partnership for Mindfulness in Education that she cofounded at Park Day School is, by far, the most effective endeavor in which she has worked. The program teaches mindfulness to children primarily in public schools and has served over 4,000 children in 22 months.

Megan Cowan received her degree in Comparative Health and Healing from UC Berkeley, studying a variety of medical and holistic healing modalities that impact people’s overall well-being. She came to cofounding this collaboration (CPME) after years of focusing on her personal awareness and transformation. She felt compelled during those years to understand and develop herself as much as possible so that she could offer the most in the world, and affect people in a positive way. Having worked with children in a variety of formats and having taught children mindfulness in other contexts, she was delighted to find something that suited both her interest and her skills.

Richard Shankman has a BS in electrical engineering from San Jose State and began his career as an engineer in the business world. He has 30 years of self-awareness practice and transitioned six years ago into teaching self-awareness full-time. With a Masters from the California Institute of Integral Studies, he has had the opportunity
to share his teachings in a number of environments including prisons,  the corporate world, and retreat settings. He has a skill of developing a program that suits the particular group. His background and experience serve as a steady guide in this collaboration that he cofounded with Laurie and Megan.

Mary Reilly, MSW, LCSW Has been working in Sacramento City Unified School District since 1989. Since
2000 she has been a school social worker, in an elementary school; counseling with individual students, and student groups and families.  This year she has been piloting a mindfulness and brain gym program in her school. From 1989-2000 she served as a teacher-on-special assignment for Positive Youth Development, facilitating the Children of Alcoholics Project, a teen parent program with Head Start, and training teachers in various mental health issues.

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE

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7:45  Registration, Continental Breakfast, Networking - please arrive early!

8:25 Welcome

8:30 - 9:45 Dr. Dan Siegel
Mindsight and Social and Emotional Intelligence

9:45 - 10:00 Break

10:00 - 11:15 Dr. Dan Siegel
Mindsight and Internal Education

11:15 - 12:00 Lunch

12:15 - 1:30 Dr. Dacher Keltner
Born To Be Good: The Science of A Meaningful Life

1:30 - 1:45 Break

1:45 - 3:15  Panel: Decreasing Anxiety and Improving Student Behavior and with Simple Mindfulness Techniques by Community Partnership for Mindfulness in Education (CPME) of Park Day School

Mailing Address
Conference Location Info

Event Location
Clark Kerr Campus (CKC) in Berkeley
Phone: 510-642-4444
2601 Warring St. Berkeley, CA 94720-2288

Maps
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Driving/Parking
Parking is very limited at the conference venue and will cost $12-15 per day. We have parking spaces for 1/2 the number of attendes so carpool or take public transit. 

We have adjusted the price of the conference to reflect this added expense. Street parking is limited to 2 hours and there are no nearby public lots. Here is a map to the overflow parking if our main lot is full.  If you must drive to the facility, please carpool.  Parking is in the South West lot (on Warring near Derby) and is not guaranteed. Please come by public transportation if you can.

Public Transit
Visit transit.511.org and put in the address of Clark Kerr (2601 Warring St. Berkeley, CA) for directions from your location.  The conference center is easily accessible by AC Transit #7 bus which stops at Berkeley BART & Rockridge BART Stations.  Head the correct direction from BART and the #7 bus stops right outside the venue of Clark Kerr.  See this CKC map (pdf) or view the AC transit #7 bus schedule map here.

Conference Mailing Address
UC Berkeley Graduate School of Education
School Psychology Program
4511 Tolman Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-1670
510/642-4202 (email is preferred)
Attn: School Psychology Conference
ucbschpsyc@gmail.com

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42nd Annual Conference

Mindsight and the Mechanisms Beneath Social and Emotional Intelligence

Monday,
April 20th, 2009

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