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Council for a Strong America - Brain Science Speakers

 

Council for a Strong America is a national, bipartisan nonprofit that unites five organizations comprised of law enforcement leaders, retired admirals and generals, business executives, pastors, and prominent coaches and athletes who promote solutions that ensure our next generation of Americans will be citizen-ready.  Council for a Strong America has a 20-year track record of strengthening families, communities, the economy, and our national security.

One if of the programs, ReadyNation is comprised of business executives building a skilled workforce by promoting solutions that prepare children to succeed in education, work, and life.  To highlight the importance of positive relationships and quality engagements in children’s brain development, ReadyNation is offering expert, credentialed scientists as speakers for events and providing materials for public use.   ReadyNation's Brain Science Speakers Bureau, offers trained scientists and health professionals with compelling audio-visual presentations about the importance of early brain development to life-long success.  The speakers are available without a fee, but event organizers would have to pay travel expenses if any.  These would make a dynamic agenda for any civic group.  See the list of speakers and where they are located, request a speaker, or apply to become a speaker.

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To me, the science that is desperately misunderstood (and can be a real game changer, if knowledge about it penetrates into society) is interpersonal neuro-biology.  The ways our experiences in relationships shape our brains, and that it happens the most when we are babies, 0-3...  see Bruce Perry, Dan Siegel, Allan Schore. 

Our experiences of trauma, vs. our experiences of being included, valued, loved and safe give shape our mental set points and habitual firing patterns.  This is imparted and modeled in babyhood/toddlerhood.  If we get co-regulation from our mother, we learn to self-regulate.  If we do not get it, we do not learn self regulation and must come up with another way to manage feelings (eating, drugs, denial, etc).  "The right brain of the mother becomes the right brain of the child." 

Back in the 1970's Dr James Prescott figured out that the primary child-rearing practice that predicted future adult happiness and peacefulness was being carried around as a baby.   Babies truly thrive with 24/7 co regulation.  That's what they are wired for.

If more people knew about the importance of the first three years as a template for relationships and self regulation, more babies would get what they need and we could save them from the sequelae of ACEs. 

I have had serious trauma; I lost a brother at 20.  But I also got breastfed and indulged by a gentle, calm mother in my babyhood.  This has been like a force-field for me, in terms of surviving later traumatic events. 

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