3 Lessons: How We May Impede Kids from Healthier Creative Minds--& What We Can Do About It.

4-15-13

Sandra H. Rodman, CEO, Right Brain Aerobics
@SHRodman - www.rightbrainaerobics.com
425-214-2926 - sandra@rightbrainaerobics.com

I researched this connection between sitting and technology-centered society / health to gain  insight for taking right brain training into educational environments--and came away adding hourly walking breaks to my own schedule, more plants in my environment--so obvious was the research on what happens with hours of sitting in stale air & tech/screen-focused environments.  I decided meditation, eating organic and exercising once a day isn't enough. No need to think about why we're growing more obese and unhealthy--seeking to have more creative mental skills:

"The Major Health Risk You Take Every Day": Sitting. And what can we do to reverse this now for our children?

5 Creative Reasons to Stop What You're Doing Right Now!

 

March 12, 2012

Sandra H. Rodman, CEO, Right Brain Aerobics

Right Brain Aerobics Academy Classes & Talks

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Reason #1: Your Creative-Intuitive-Imaginative Right Brain Is Waiting to Report Out Creative Insight But You Never Let It On The Calendar.  How do you pick up the "download"?  How do you creatively convert it into action and insight?

Stop. Pick up pen and piece of paper. Take a deep breath.  Get a sip of water. Then do nothing for 5 minutes but listen. In silence. No background anything. No looking at a screen. Time it. Then sketch, draw, doodle whatever "out of the blue" powerful right brain symbol "cues" and ideas "pop up" ready for download. Information is always processing creatively but is useless uninterpreted data. Until you spend even 5 minutes in silence. Get ready. One reason amazing ideas pop up in showers, when waiting for planes (if you're not online): Time is available for more alpha "ah hah" mind state to get your attention.  How do you convert it into information?  You'll see:  Pick the most "out of the blue" crazy symbol or idea that popped up in those 5 minutes and pretend you have an assignment to turn it into a new strategy or insight. Here's why that's important -- and an example of how you might do it:

3 Right Brain Learning Tips: Doodle, Color, & Grow Wiser.

February 24, 2013
Sandra H. Rodman, CEO, Right Brain Aerobics
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Learning + Creativity = Something that's new -- beyond our usual cognition, reinforces memory, provides new "anchors," prompts new analysis of new things.

Fundamentally, Right Brain Aerobics is "mental techniques," and those very techniques cause more "new techniques" to pop up too.  In college, I can't remember a "Mental Techniques 101" course yet that's what we needed! At 70, it's needed more!  Now I'm trying to do "deep dive" learning into new social media and blogweb techniques -- but if there are 10 new programs/apps a week to enjoy your Twitter experience more, there are at 100!  So I decided to just USE these Right Brain techniques to learn them and discovered that other wisdom started sprouting from the right brain. New things like TweetDeck, Lost at EMinor and 12Ahead were entering my mindscape beyond learning--and I was having fun! For your "adventures in learning" try:

3 Right Brain Ways to Learn Something New & Not Go Ughhh!

Teaching Impossible Things: A Right Brainy Kind of Day...

Dr. Craig Weiner, D.C.
Right Brain Aerobics Certified Trainer

This week I had a wonderful Right Brainy kind of day. Teaching Right Brain Aerobics for Left Brained Folks was a fabulous gathering of individuals who each came for their own specific reasons for wanting to learn how to think more creatively. Before teaching the characteristics of a right brained orientation, each student responded to the inquiry of what qualities they experience when doing the activities that bring them the greatest joy.

Their responses defined a right-brain-activated state of mind. One spoke of feeling like she was "in the flow" when doing her quilting; a kindergarten teacher shared her passion for teaching children "outside the box" and beyond the prescribed curriculum; a social worker beamed as she described the serenity that she benefitted from when getting her hands in the soil while gardening, and another lost herself while listening to her favorite music.

10 Things You CAN Take with You! Compassionate Innovation in a New Era...?

December 29, 2012
by Sandra H. Rodman, CEO, Right Brain Aerobics
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10 Things You CAN Take With You: 

The best Innovations, I would think, would be those you can "take with you." In a good way.  You know what these are because you get a "6th sense" that these acts would pass muster with anybody you ever knew who cared about you and wanted to see you succeed as the best person you can be.  You feel a "good" you can take with you.  And others feel it, too.  This is my first 10-Things-You-CAN-Take-With-You Checklist.  I suspect this Checklist may change my Right Brain Aerobics work more than I bargained for. Give it a try... :)

Unexpected Results When Beginning Transformational Dialogues with Right Brain Start Up

9-29-12

GUEST BLOGGER: Dr. Craig Weiner, DC

Director, The Chiropractic Zone Healing Center - www.chirozone.net

Creator, The Transformational Dialogues - chirozone.net/other_resources.htm

Right Brain Aerobics Trainer - http://chirozone.net/rba/index.htm

Earlier this week I was hosting an evening of my Transformational Dialogues, an event discussing how to raise our adolescent girls as powerful women. As normally occurs, a crowd of 25 people or so hurriedly rush into the gathering space sometime between 5:55 and 6:05 for a six o'clock event starting time. My intention was for it to be an evening in which there could be a sense of safety and sacredness, where vulnerability and authenticity could emerge. Normally I begin the events with house announcements, like where are the restrooms, when is the next upcoming event, etc. Then we head directly into introductions and the event begins. This time I decided to do something different. After the instructions for the evening were given, I asked their permission to do a little exercise with me to help quiet the chaotic arrival energy. I then led the group in a Right Brain Start-Up* exercise from Right Brain Aerobics... … 

Whole Brain Organizations: Pulling for Creative Genius at All Levels?

9-20-12

"Want to inspire your staff?  Let them help solve the company's biggest problems."  From 30 Second MBA, Fast Company, John Landgraf, Pres. & GM, FX Networks

By Sandra H. Rodman - @SHRodman on Twitter

CEO, Right Brain Aerobics

For new solutions we need: New landscapes of solvers.  What we're finding in Right Brain Aerobics pilots is that when you initiate a "pull" for creative/innovative genius it's there.  It's there at much greater levels of insight than you expect, and it's there at every level of every organization or network of colleagues.

That's a new landscape for problem solving in every organization -- but "Step 1" is: We must engage the "right brain" as well as the left, in every role.  

Twitter "Show & Tell": Right Brain Business/Education Exploring

8-22-12 by Sandra H. Rodman

CEO, Right Brain Aerobics and Twitter URL. @SHRodman -- read online

This iTwitter show-and-tell features Tweets about: Peter Diamondis ("X Prize" Space Activist,) Marc Barasch (GreenWorld.org), Dr. Eric Andrulis (new paper on the origins of life in the universe), meme/idea surfing through Amazon, UNESCO--60 million children needing education), and B. Stoller's great cartoon in the New Yorker: "The check is in the Cloud..." and more..

Okay, Twitter is still exciting for me as an educational, brain sparking, business sparking tool, even after a couple of months. Have discovered SUCH creative people and global efforts, which pop up daily upon increasing the # of innovative, creative, compassionate tweeters I follow...

3 Qualities of Right Brain Leadership

8-14-12 -- By Sandra H. Rodman, Creator, Right Brain Aerobics

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Qualities of “right brain” leadership might be different, since "leadership" is often thought of as hierarchical, and “right brain” is thought of as more collaborative, cooperative, and creative. As we already have highly developed “left brain skills” in our societies, then developing right brain leadership skills might mean more "balanced" leadership -- or Whole Brain Leadership. Here are 3 Qualities for “Right Brain Leadership" as Food for Thought. (If you want to know more about how Right Brain Aerobics looks at what is “left brain” and what is “right brain” look at Introduction to Right Brain Thinking.  Dan Pink transformed the 80's term "Right Brain" into a modern business concept with his book "A Whole New Mind: Why Right Brainers Will Rule the Future."

Right Brain Aerobics Classes + DrewsList & Amazing Whidbey Island

8-9-12
Sandra H. Rodman
Right Brain Aerobics - @SHRodman

This blog origincally introduced Right Brain Aerobics 1 in new format in Freeland, WA -- the amazing Whidbey Island on Sunday, Aug. 19th, 9:30 am - 1 pm (the 8/19 brochure looked like this).

But more, it outlines the amazing community building of a local Whidbey institution called "DrewsList" by Drew Kampion.  And spotlights The South Whidbey Cornucopia University...See the whole page on RBA, Drews List and Whidbey Island.