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Mindsight by

Daniel Siegel M.D.

Jennifer OldfordTurk Mac Donald

Agenda• 1. Mindsight

o Definition• Video

o The 7th Sense• Defining a healthy mind activity

• 2. Neuroscience o Structure and function

• The Hand Model of the Brain (video)o Neuroplasticityo Connections to mindsight

• 3. Integrationo River of Integration

• Ridigity/Chaos/Both Activity.o 8 Domains of Integration

• Right Brain/Left Brain Activity

• 4. Cultivating Mindsighto Triangle of well-being o Attentive communication, attunement, resonance

• Communication activities

• Additional references and resources.

• Note: Blending the What?, So What? and the Now What?.

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1. Mindsight• DEFINING THE MIND:

o Task: Take a moment and jot down three terms or phrases that would describe the mind.

oBe prepared to share.

1. Mindsight• Siegel’s definition:

o The human mind is a relational and embodied process that regulates the flow of energy and information.

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1. Mindsight• human capacity to perceive the mind of self and

others• powerful lens through which we can understand

our inner lives with more clarity, integrate the brain, and enhance our relationships with others

• helps us get ourselves off of the autopilot of ingrained behaviors and habitual responses

Video Link (10 Minutes)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jwGU7h2HdY

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1. Mindsight

• The 7 Senses:o 1-5 = Ability to perceive the outside world

• Sight, Sound, Smell, Taste, Toucho 6 = Ability us to perceive our internal states

• Rapid beating heart, butterflies in our stomach, pain from injury

o 7 = Ability to perceive our mind• See and shape the inner workings of our mind, reflect

on experience

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1. Mindsight• Now What?

1. If this is something that helps, what is keeping us from it?

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2. Neuroscience• Brainstem: ancient brain. Regulates basic

processes, states of arousal, fight-flight-freeze.• Limbic System: emotions, evaluation of good

vs bad, forming relationships and emotional attachment, memory

• Cerebral cortex: think, imagine, combine facts and experiences, create

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2. Neuroscience• Parts of the Brain Hand Model (Video): https://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm9CIJ74Oxw

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2. Neuroscience• Mindfulness and Brain function:

o Neuroplasticity: capacity to create new neural connections and new neurons in response to experience

o Synaptogenesis: strengthening and creation of new synaptic connections.

o Focused awareness enables us to:• voluntarily change a firing pattern that was laid down involuntarily. • create neural firing patterns that permit previously separated areas

to become linked and integratedo The brain becomes more interconnected and the mind

becomes more adaptive

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2. Neuroscience• Course connection:

Guest speaker Jennifer Sims

• Response flexibility: harnesses the power of the prefrontal region to put a temporal space between input and action.

2. Neuroscience• Right brain/left-brain activity

o Blind-contour drawing

• Edwards, B. (1999). The new drawing on the right side of the brain. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam

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2. Neuroscience• Now What?

2. a)How do we use an understanding of the functioning of the brain to improve our teaching and interactions with students and colleagues?b) How do we get “teaching with the brain in mind” to become a part of B.Ed. training?





3. Integration• a process by which separate elements are linked

together as a working whole.• integration enables us to be flexible and free• the lack of such connections promotes a life that

is either rigid or chaotic

• COMPLEXITY CHOIR?

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3. Integration•River of Integration: the mindful balance between structure and spontaneity

3. Integration• Eight Domains of Integration:1. Integration of Consciousness: build skills to stabilize attention.

Harness the power of attention to create choice and change.2. Horizontal Integration: balance the two sides to increase

creativity, richness and complexity of thought.3. Vertical Integration: bringing bodily sensations into awareness.4. Memory Integration: making implicit memories explicit.5. Narrative Integration: making sense of our lives by creating

stories that weave together narrator function with autobiographical memory storage.

6. State Integration: embracing our many self-states as healthy dimensions of ourselves.

7. Interpersonal Integration: connecting in relationships while retaining our own sense of identity and freedom.

8. Temporal Integration: finding comfort in the face of uncertainty, impermanence, and mortality.

3. Integration• Rigidity/ Chaos/ Both activity

oDSM - Diagnosis

3. Integration• Course connection:

• Yoga practice

Integration of Consciousness and Vertical Integration

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3. Integration• Now What?

3. How do invite our staff to recognize Mindsight in their own life? And use it to improve Interpersonal Integration?





4. Cultivating Mindsight

• the triangle of well-being


• Attunement and attachmento Parent-childo Other relationships “The best predictor of a child's

security of attachment is not what happened to his parents as children, but rather how his parents made sense of those childhood experiences.”~ Dan Siegel from Mindsight


• Activities for you and your students:

1. Non-verbal communication game of copying someone else’s facial expression and guessing the emotion.

2. Non-verbal communication game of watching TV with the sound off and letting your brain ‘fill-in the blank.’

3. Journaling about your day in pictures/smells/sounds to help activate the senses

4. Journaling emotions5. Finding words to depict our internal world6. Making ‘mindmaps’ of how we see ourselves and our relations with

others.7. Tensing and releasing certain muscle groups to become aware of

them8. Having someone say ‘no’ in a harsh tone and then a nice ‘yes’

several times and discussing how it feels when both words are said to you.


• Focused Awareness:o The Wheel of Awareness

• Video Link on the ‘Wheel’ Enjoy at your leisure• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODlFhOKahmk

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OTHER ACTIVITIES TO TRY:• Body Scan• Stay With That- a practice of noticing and

naming your feelings without judgment• Focusing on the breath• Walking Meditation• SIFT- process of deliberately accessing

your Sensations, Feelings, and Thoughts



• Course connection:

• Purser (2014), Ergas (2013 & 2015), Hyland (2015)

• Mindfulness vs Mindsight: • Neuroscience separated from religious practice• When we carry out a mindfulness practice of focused

awareness, we develop mindsight.

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• Now What?

4. How do we maintain the separation between providing therapy and providing support & connectivity?

5. If there are other ways to stimulate neural growth, why should we focus on mindsight?





BIG AHA!Why is mindsight important to teachers?1. Teaching is about relationships

and interactions2. Being aware of our own

awareness gives us response flexibility

3. By modeling attentive communication and attunement we assist students in their brain development

4. Integration increases rate, strength, and adaptability of neural functioning

5. WELL-BEING

Re-cap Agenda• 1. Mindsight

• Defining the mind activityo Definition

• Videoo The 7th Sense

• 2. Neuroscience o Structure and function

• The Hand Model of the Brain (video)o Neuroplasticityo Connections to mindsight

• 3. Integrationo River of Integration

• Ridigity/Chaos/Both Activity.o 8 Domains of Integration

• Right Brain/Left Brain Activity

• 4. Cultivating Mindsighto Triangle of well-being o Attentive communication, attunement, resonance

• Communication activities

• Additional references and resources.

• Note: Blending the What?, So What? and the Now What?.





Other Works by Daniel Siegel:• Siegel, D. & Fosha, D. (2009). The Healing Power of Emotion: Affective Neuroscience,

Development & Clinical Practice. New York, New York: WW Norton & Company, • Siegel, D. (2010). The Mindful Therapist: A Clinician's Guide to Mindsight and Neural

Integration. New York, New York: WW Norton & Company.• Siegel, D. (2010). Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation. New York, New

York: Bantam.• Siegel, D. & Bryson, T. (2011). The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to

Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind, Survive Everyday Parenting Struggles, and Help Your Family Thrive. New York, New York: Delacorte Press.

• Siegel, D. (2012). The Developing Mind, Second Edition: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are. New York, New York: Guilford Press.

• Siegel, D. (2012). Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology: An Integrative Handbook of the Mind. New York, New York: W.W. Norton & Company.

• Siegel, D. (2013). Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain. New Tork, New York: Penguin Putnam.

• Siegel, D., & Hartzel, M. (2004). Parenting From the Inside Out: How A Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive. New York, New York: Tarcher.

• Siegel, D., & Bryson, T. (2014). No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind. New York, New York: Bantam.

• Siegel, D. (2007). The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being. New York, New York: WW Norton.

• Siegel, D. (1999). The Developing Mind: Toward a Neurobiology of Interpersonal Experience. New York, New York: Guilford Press.

• Siegel, D., Hartzel, M. (2003). Parenting from the Inside Out. New York, New York: Tarcher.•

The Whole Brain Child

9 Mindfulness Books to Start With • Davidson, R., Begley, S. (2012). The Emotional Life of Your Brain. London,

England: Penguin Books. • Hanh, T. N. (2015). Silence the Power of Quiet in a World Full of Noise. New

York, New York; Harper Collins Publishers, • Kabat-Zinn, J. (1994). Where Ever You Go There You Are. New York, New

York: Hyperion Books.• Langer, E. (2009). Counter Clockwise Mindful health and the Power of

Possibility. New York, New York: Random House Inc.• Langer, E. (2014). Mindfulness 25th Anniversary Edition. Boston,

Massachusetts: De Capo Press. • Langer, E. (1997). The Power of Mindful Living. Cambridge, Massachusetts:

Perseus Books. • Neff, K. (2011). Stop Beating Yourself Up and Leave Insecurity Behind. New

York, New York: Harper Collins Publishers.• Siegel, D. (2011). Mindsight the New Science of Personal Transformation.

New York, New York: Random House Inc.• Williams, M., & Penman, D. (2011). Mindfulness an Eight-Week Plan for

Finding Peace in a Frantic World. New York, New York: Rodale,

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