Dr Paul Dennison, PhD, founded the Educational Kinesiology Foundation (now known as Breakthroughs International ) in California in 1987 to teach professionals, parents and other adults how to use Brain Gym® to help children and adults with learning disabilities. Brain Gym® has been translated into 40 languages and has consultants and Instructors in 80 countries.

Course Name

Duration

Description

Brain Gym® – 101

Duration: 24 hrs

Experience whole brain integration through whole body movement. Learn twenty-six Brain Gym® exercises, the Edu-K Balance process, and the Dennison Laterality Repatterning. Discover a permanent tool for reaching personal goals. Applications for children, students, teachers, parents, artists, athletes, health care practitioners, and business professionals.

Brain Gym® – 104

Duration: 16 hrs

Dive deep into the 26 Brain gym® activities. Experience them in your body. Gain a better understanding of each movement, the philosophy behind the Brain Gym ® program and how this knowledge can support can support your daily life routine.

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Notice: The effects after each of the “26 brain Gym movements”
  • Identify: Life events as part of a learning loop or as an “out of the loop” stress response.
  • Learn: The language of Educational Kinesiology as it relates to the dimensions of learning
  • Discover: How  these movements can support one’s and others’ development of physical skills.

Brain Gym® – 105

Duration: 8 hrs

Double Doodle Play workshop includes movement, drawing and painting activities done solo, with a partner and as a group. It serves as a fun introduction to Brain Gym® – with tools for maintaining and improving everyday visual and movement skills. People often make gains in their visual responsiveness as they play together in ways that engage seeing, tactility or tool holding abilities, while learning to notice both one sided and whole body habits of moving.

Pre-requisite: Brain Gym 101, Brain Gym 104, Case Studies

26 Movements Facilitator Training 

This course prepares one to teach the 16 hour Brain Gym® 104 course and create customized workshops upto 6 hours. Participants practice teaching concepts as well as giving and receiving feedback. The course covers administrative details for Movement facilitators . This course has 16 contact hours as well as an 8 hour independent study. The 8 hours involve the case studies, review of Assessment Tool with instructor, creating marketing materials (flier) and drafting a 30 minute segment of teaching to be evaluated.

Brain Gym®

Brain Gym®- 201

Duration: 16 hrs

Discover the concepts of hemispheric specialization, identification, and balancing to facilitate whole-brain learning. Learn how to assess for Learning Style Profiles. Open to students who have taken Brain Gym® 101.

Brain Gym®- 220

Duration: 24 hrs

As we travel the developmental road of vision as a way of thinking, we visit eight intersecting spheres each representing a integral skill of information processing. Noticing, moving, listening, seeing and the skills of using our hands and language for self-expression and communication with others are explored using the Brain Gym® 5 – step learning process. Along the way, new Vision Gym® movements are learned with applications for personal and work settings, including the classroom.

Brain Gym®- 301

Pre-requisite: Brain Gym 101 | Duration: 32 hrs

Explore Integrated brain body learning. Re discover the joy, ease and wholeness of learning.

Course Objectives:

  • Deepen your understanding of the Focus, Centering and Laterality Dimension
  • Develop skills that draw out potential excellence & realiation of goals
  • Expand your learning menu with new techniques in acupressure, movement, emotional balancing, vision training and a lot more.
  • Learn new Dimensions
  • Motivation & Self image – describes the relationship between motivation & language intention
  • Cranial & Rhythm – looks at structural intelligence
  • Breathing & Expression – notices the body’s tendencies regarding breath
  • Body Regulation & Management – observes the balance between input and output.

Brain Gym®- 401

The Teacher Practicum  provides the skills to support the emergence of the authentic teacher in each participant.  Completion of this class licenses the graduates to teach Brain Gym® classes and present themselves as Brain Gym  consultants.

The Teacher Practicum is a thorough training for successful facilitation and is highly transformational on the personal level.  This class will give you a deeper understanding  and broaden your base with  Brain Gym®, both personally and professionally.

Licensure is through the Breakthroughs Int. Foundation.