http://www.ilsorrisodeimieibimbi.org/index.php?id=215&lang_id=enHappinessKit travels to Brazil, and it is quoted in "ilsorrisodeimieibimbi" website.
Soon, very soon, everything will be ready for the kit to be sold online!
Yes!
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martedì 8 febbraio 2011
BAD is good, the Brain Awareness Day, London
Phineas Gage was amazingly hit in the head by an iron bar, the bar perforated his skull and even more amazingly cauterized the wound and left him a little ;-) dizzy yet alive and awake.
The most amazing thing of all is yet that he changed. His personality changed. The bar hit his brain and the damage changed his way of being, transforming him from a quite, reliable, reasonable man into an inconsiderate, risk-loving betting-prone individual. The brain as a host for personality, cognition, emotions.
During the International Brain Awareness Week (14-20th March 2011) here in London Dr Ashok Jansari has thought and developed (wow, what a brain!) a BAD day (Brain Awareness Day) at the School of Psychology at UEL Stratford campus. Some of us students: Astrid, Rebecca, Kitty and myself will be somehow the BAD girls, trying to help with organization.
There will be an open lecture ‘The Life of Brian (the Brain)’, with a sum of the history of our understanding of the brain. Dr Jansari will demonstrate how we can understand the devastating consequences of some forms of brain damage and also the preserved abilities following trauma.
This discussion will help to grasp the MIRACLE of a healthy brain functioning and to use this information to develop rehabilitation making patients' existences easier.
The event will be hosting Mr. David, who cannot recognise any faces (including his wife’s), but can tell people’s emotions and football teams t-shirts (who does he stand for?)
Mrs. Nicola will also attend. She is a profoundly amnesic patient, yet Dr Jansari’s team taught her to use an electronic device to remember to take her medication (despite this remarkable learning, each time she sees the device, she says she never used it before).
Between 7 and 8pm there will be a reception with information displayed by organisations that work with individuals with brain-related issues (e.g. Headway and the Encephalitis Society), posters about research at the School of Psychology and even models of the brain that the audience can touch and take apart.
BAD is good ;-), and someone doesn’t need to be an academic to attend. If you are simply just interested in brains and what they do, you are greatly welcome. it’s FREE and open to all – Wednesday 16th of March, 6-9pm, at UEL’s Stratford Campus
You can also find Brain Awareness Day listed on the Dana Foundation’s website.
domenica 6 febbraio 2011
clear instructions to happiness
My friend X has some issues. She has some OCD tendencies, she sometimes has panics attacks, she overreacts and exaggerates, she extra-loves, she is adorable and sometimes unbearable, at times her self-esteem is very low. In a few words, she is healthy, but she has some issues. Many people are the same, many of us we have issues. X has been in therapy for years. She has been treated with several different approaches, and yet once she told me something that really got me thinking: “I have been in therapy for so long and they all tell me my self-esteem is low, yet no one ever gave me CLEAR instructions”.
Good point: concrete instructions. What do you do when you are feeling depressed? How to you build upon your weakened self-esteem? What tools, instruments, screwdrivers, hammers, kneels do you need to take care of your inner building site?
Well. I cannot but think about this point, as, going through my studies, I make psychological discoveries: how could how transmit this? How do I keep this simple? How do I build a toolbox, a KIT?
A kit is something people carry around, it helps, it is a small set of strategic items you need in strategic moments. If you travel, you want to carry a sleep-well kit: you have a smooth satin sleeping mask, you have some lavender drops, a little pillow, a lovely book to read, the most modern kits might contain some music device. You have first aid kits, go-to-the-toilet-when-abroad kit, sewing kits, beauty kits, press kits….
WHAT ABOUT THEN AN HAPPINESS KIT? When you need happiness (we always do), we extract something from the kit and we use it. USE. Concrete, practical. So what did I do? Easy: I took a little bag and I put some objects in it. Which objects?: some of the TWELVE OBJECTS that Positive Psychology has taught me they bring happiness.
A small selection will do, you most probably don’t need them all twelve. You carry them around, you touch them, you look at them, you start practising a “cognitive reconstruction” which sounds boring but means that practise makes perfect.
In order to make the whole project even more perfect (yes!), I thought I could sell these happiness kits and part of the proceeds could go to charities (which brings even more happiness ;-).
Perfect, isn’t it?
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