BOOKS
Intentional Neuroplasticity
Moving our Nervous Systems and Educational System Toward Post-Traumatic Growth
BY: LORI L. DESAUTELS, PH.D. Check back for the official release date
Connections Over Compliance:
Rewiring Our Perceptions of Discipline
BY: LORI L. DESAUTELS, PH.D.
The developing brains of our children need to "feel" safe.
Children who carry chronic behavioral challenges are often met with
reactive and punitive practices that can potentially reactivate the developing stress response systems.
This book deeply addresses the need for co-regulatory and relational touch point practices, shifting student-focused behavior management protocols to adult regulated brain and body states which are brain aligned, preventive, and relational discipline protocols. This new lens for discipline benefits all students by reaching for sustainable behavioral changes through brain state awareness rather than compliance and obedience.
EYES ARE NEVER QUIET
LISTENING BENEATH THE BEHAVIORS OF OUR MOST TROUBLED STUDENTS
BY: LORI L. DESAUTELS, PH.D. AND MICHAEL MCKNIGHT, M.A.
The eyes of troubled youth are communicating in all moments.
Hurt people hurt people. Our children can become violent, detached, or shut down when early development is toxic, severely disrupted and is met with significant adverse childhood experiences. Children are our nation’s greatest natural resource and their emotional, mental and physiological well-being are at stake.
What can we do? We begin with the awareness and research that adversity just doesn’t happen to a child — it attacks and hijacks a child’s brain, body and nervous system function reprograming how they react and respond to all life. For educators, counselors, social workers, mental health professionals and law enforcement—this book presents the neurobiology of adversity and trauma in youth and the resiliency of hope and mindfulness ... and how to help.
Published by Wyatt-MacKenzie
Unwritten, The Story of a Living System
A PATHWAY TO ENLIVENING AND TRANSFORMING EDUCATION
by: Lori L. Desautels, Ph.D. and Michael McKnight, M.A.There’s never been a more chaotic and tenuous time in our nation’s educational story. Learning is the most natural thing human beings do. Yet, it seems the “harder” we work in schools helping our students to acquire the learning they need, the academic performances stay stagnant or lessen. Schools are not machines. Schools are a network of human beings who feel, think, behave, and function within a human system that is alive and never static. Schools are living systems! This system is wired to thrive, even through difficult times — We believe that we can begin to create wholeness and connection within our schools mindfully and by design. We can create places where all children thrive.
Published by Wyatt-MacKenzie
Available at Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble
HOW MAY I SERVE YOU
REVELATIONS IN EDUCATION
by: Lori L. Desautels, Ph.D.Is there a career, social scenario, skill, or relationship that education does not impact? Education touches all our lives. When we ignore the implications schools affect in our daily existence, we narrow the possibilities, ignore the limitations, the creative and sometimes negative thoughts and feelings we subconsciously contribute inside our students’ and children’s lives. Who was your favorite teacher? What did he say to you? What look on her face do you remember? These remembrances are how we begin to revert back to the basics in education. It is not reading, writing, and math skills drilled into our heads. We remember the emotional connections, the relationships or lack thereof from those individuals who served us well or those who did not acknowledge who we really were and are. When did we begin to take the soul, our inner voice, out of education, our businesses and relationships? Isn’t education the hub of all professions, skilled labors, global businesses, economics, mental, emotional, political and medicinal health relationships and practices? This book is about five words that can create a tsunami of positive emotion, and therefore genuinely affect the relationships between educators, parents, colleagues and students. How may I serve you, can be stated in a variety of ways, igniting an open response from the one who is struggling. What do you need? How can I help you? What would be best for you? Dialogues begin, hearts open, and deep listening starts to unravel misunderstandings of angry, bored, and frustrated individuals trying to cope in schools and in life! This book is an experiment, an expansion of perspective because when we genuinely ask what another needs, we are showered with understanding, a novel view of tenuous situation and abundance in relationship and self-esteem we never realized we needed and desired.
Publisher: Park East Press New York, NY
Hi,
I wanted to order some books for our teaching staff. Is there any chance of educational discount? We would like to order 70 books – “Eyes Are Never Quiet” I am also interested in the possibility of a sample of your other books. I would like to preview them for possible further learning.
Thank you for your relevant, meaningful work and consideration.
Maggie Malone
Director, Fine Arts
Grand Rapids Public Schools
616-819-2156