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From Contact To Participation In Human Development · The Brain’s Body Podcast: The Brain Is the Body

• 0:06
  SPEAKER_01: A Brain Talk Book Session.
• 0:08
  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to Brain Talk.
• 0:10
  SPEAKER_01: I'm Dr.
• 0:11
  SPEAKER_01: Christopher K.
• 0:12
  SPEAKER_01: Slayton, ed D., founder of Human Systems Science and creator of Brain Talk Books.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_01: I call myself the Brain Talker because my work begins with a simple belief.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_01: I write to the brain, not the body.
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_00: From contact to participation.
• 0:30
  SPEAKER_00: Human development begins with contact, grows through interaction, deepens through cooperation, and finds fuller expression through participation.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_00: Over the course of my work with children and parents in crisis, this pattern has continued to stand out.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_00: Contact often begins with the body.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_00: Interaction opens through neural exchange.
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_00: Cooperation deepens when the brain, body, and senses begin to coordinate.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_00: Participation becomes fuller when the person can receive, organize, and respond with greater awareness.
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_00: I borrow from Taba's concept of formation to describe how learning takes shape as a person becomes more informed.
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_00: In human system science, I extend formation through sense and receive path recognition, the lived pattern that forms when brain, body, senses, people, and environment meet.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_00: This matters because children, adolescents, and adults are not only reacting to life, they are continually forming through contact with the world, interaction with experience, cooperation between signals, and participation in home, school, neighborhood, and workplace life.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_00: Through reflection, these formations become part of brain thinking.
• 1:38
  SPEAKER_00: The person begins to notice how the brain talks back, how the body carries the response, and how the senses help organize what happened.
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_00: That is where self-leadership begins.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_00: These may become the first principles of the brain's body learning system for self-leadership.
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_00: Contact teaches awareness, interaction teaches recognition, cooperation teaches organization, participation teaches expression, and reflection teaches self-direction.
• 2:04
  SPEAKER_00: In book one, Human System Science asks how the brain talks back through brain body and sense messaging.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_00: In book two, the question becomes how the person learns to think with those messages.
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_00: Brain thinking names that reflective performance, the capacity to receive what is being carried, organize it through awareness, and express a response with greater care, clarity, and self direction.
• 2:26
  SPEAKER_01: Brain Talk Books gives us a way to understand crisis without reducing the person to the crisis.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_01: We look for the message inside the response and we help the brain find a path back towards sense, safety, and participation.