Bringing the Principles of Neuroscience to Educational Practice and Career Development.
Are your staff up to date and knowledgeable on how to support TS students with vocal tics, movement tics and obsessive traits?
How do you confidently and accountably support school students with Tourette’s Syndrome? How does that support differ for a primary school student and a high school student? Continue reading “Schools & TS Students”
I wanted to share a story with you that keeps me on track with what is important versus what is urgent.
A friend once told me about a discussion he heard in which a paramedic likened many people’s overly busy lives to car accidents. He said when arriving at a scene of destruction, someone who is untrained in procedures will often tend to take notice of the victims who are screaming, have minor injuries and attracting a lot of attention.
In making this choice, they will neglect the ones who are not arousing attention and who are often quietly slipping away.
Continue reading “Important v Urgent”
Have you seen my 2017 interview by Paul Squared from the Intro2ParateE show on SWR Triple 9 FM?
I shared music from my EP and how I wanted to coach and support those who suffer with Tourette’s.
Continue reading “Dave Brebner is ‘ON AIR’”
“He’s so lucky” my 9 year old exclaimed while watching a documentary about a British football player who drove a Ferrari and made an insane amount of money each year.
Perhaps he is lucky to some extent in being found among the millions of young players who never got the chance to show their skills and avoided injury at critical times in performance.
Continue reading “Those ‘Lucky’ Athletes”
When in France, returning from a camping trip around Morocco, I had a problem. Our gas cylinders and attachments were all in imperial sizes and we were unable to use the European gear, which was in metric sizes.
Completely out of cooking gas, we stopped off at a hardware store in the French countryside to see what could be done.
Continue reading “What Are You Saying?”
Many great leaders were unpopular and considered social, technological or spiritual heretics for their views when they challenged the accepted thinking of their times.
There are times when going against the advice of those in places of authority is foolish and in poor judgement. It may be going against the obvious hard won experience of ‘elders’ who have trodden the path on which we wish to embark.
Continue reading “Breaking the Limits”
Is any idea really truly original?
Can we claim originality of an idea or are our efforts the products of stimulations of other forces and people with whom we have interacted? I was watching an award ceremony recently, wondering if any of us really deserve the accolades that the world would bestow on us if we are a result of the environment around us.
It is often a personal internal change that brings about a change in our outside worlds.
We hear people cry out for peace on earth but they are neglecting peace with their neighbours, relatives, and co-workers. The fact is that peace starts on the inside of our person and without it, there is no peace on the outside. I observe that most of the conflict in the world comes by comparing each other’s ‘stuff’.
Continue reading “Creating Contentment”
What is potential? I like the definition that is an untapped energy source or a latent ability that can be developed and lifted.
When have we reached our potential? I do not know if anyone can answer that question. With ideal conditions, we may have gone further in our goals. Maybe though, the obstacles that got in our way were actually catalysts to strengthen us to push on further.
Continue reading “Rising Potential”
It is amazing how often people have an opinion to share these days.
When I was younger, people often listened to a discussion on a subject they knew little about and were interested in hearing other people’s views. These days, with the advent of mass media and the digital age, so many think they are informed about things and want to advise you.
In the relatively new science of brain elasticity, it has been shown that we have the power to change our brains, even physically! Our neurons are constantly being renewed and pathways of habits and opinions are constantly being formed, reformed and re-enforced.
Backing up new ways of thinking with actions that support the ideas helps solidify the mindset.
Continue reading “Changing Outcomes”
Sometimes, through fear or regret, we do not change course when we know we should.
Like a gambler who keeps trying to win back their losses only to lose more, we keep trying and losing.
In my recent article ‘Changing Outcomes‘, I talked about how ‘we keep getting what we get because we keep doing what we are doing’ and that can be through fear of making mistakes.
In the small town of Enterprise, Alabama there is a monument to an unusual hero on the corner of a main street which celebrates the true story of curse being viewed as an opportunity.
Erected by the people of the town in 1919, the stone plaque is dedicated to a highly destructive insect, the ‘Boll Weevil’.