Dr. Daniel Siegel explores the neural mechanisms beneath social and emotional intelligence and how these can be cultivated through reflective practices that focus on the inner nature of the mind.
Daniel is a child psychiatrist, educator, and author of Mindsight, The Mindful Brain, Parenting from the Inside Out, and The Developing Mind. He is the Founding Editor of the Norton Professional Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology, co-director of the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center, and executive director of the Mindsight Institute.
Notes from Talk –
• Interpersonal neurobiology
• All are interconnected.
• Relationships are our lifeblood – the brain is a social organ
• School is imprisoning the brain. The way we educate kids now is basically damaging our kid’s brains.
• At a young age kids circuitry is all ready, the whole relationship that they’ve had with their parents has been shaping this brain and then we shove them in schools and everything that was relational disappears after kindergarten. It’s so sad. Then the brain shrinks away. This kid has the ability to see all sorts of things, to be an artist, to be creative, to be intuitive, to stick to it, to approach things that are difficult and not withdraw from them and we have the opportunity to support this child’s development if we do it right and train teachers well.
• How do we plug in the kids brains?
• What I’m suggesting is that you can have a whole curriculum where reflection, the importance of relationships and the way they develop resilience is at the heart of this curriculum.
• Children who have reflective skills before adolescence actually have more resilience during adolescence.
Social Emotional Living 
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