This document discusses how adopting brain-friendly laws and lifestyles can empower job creation, reduce crime, and promote social harmony in Jamaica. It notes that only 20% of people globally are successful, while 80% of Jamaican youth lack competitive skills. However, countries like Denmark that focus on brain health through nutrition, exercise, limiting punishment, and other factors have achieved 80% success rates with low crime and unemployment. The document argues that brain health is key to learning and should precede education, religion, and other social institutions. It advocates presenting this message at an upcoming brain and lifestyle symposium to empower voluntary behavior change without use of words or punishment.
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Family, Culture, & Career
Week 2
Highs & Lows
Can omit if you would like, but I think my students liked this last quarter!
Weekly Poll
Today’s Agenda
Discussion: Genogram Trends
Culture & Social Context
Psychology of Working
Upcoming Deadlines
Assessment Introduction
Genogram Reflection Paper
What is “Culture”?
Set of guidelines that people inherit from their social environments
that guide how they view the world, respond to it, and behave
in it.
Not synonymous with race, ethnicity, social class, or
immigration status
Impacts us continuously, whether we are aware of it or not
Fluid and changes as cultures and individuals interact
Transmitted across generations
Privilege exists within cultures
and most career theories do not adequately address it…
Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Model: Exploration of Identity & Social Context
Interaction between your own identities, social location and agency, specific life events and circumstances, and upbringing
Family can provide important context
Don’t exist in isolation - impacted by external things/systems.
E.g., Fish metaphor (you are the fish, what is the fish bowl you are living in?) - zooming out
Breakout Rooms
(next slide)
Genogram Trends
Small Group Discussion
What did you notice?
What are the trends?
How do you want to follow these patterns or chart a new part?
Multiple Identities
We all have multiple identities that shape us and our daily experiences.
Some identities may offer us advantages, and others may offer us disadvantages
Assumptions about us based on these identities will be made, and these assumptions also impact us.
Having awareness of your identities and how they impact you as a person is important, for yourself as a person and your career.
Identities can be formed by culture but culture can also be formed by identity.
Model of Multiple Dimensions of Identity
Based on Social Identities
“portion of an individual's self-concept derived from perceived membership in a relevant social group”
(Jones & MkEwen, 2000)
“portion of an individual's self-concept derived from perceived membership in a relevant social group”
Model of Multiple Dimensions of Identity (cont.)
(Jones & MkEwen, 2000)
Start with your core
Which is most salient to you?
(gets an atom near the core)
What is least salient?
(gets a point farther away from the core)
What, if any, salient identities do not appear on this chart?
What do you notice about the identities that are closer to your core?
Reactions?
How might our identities impact our career choices and interests?
How might others’ assumptions and beliefs about us based on our identities impact our career and interests?
Your Social Context
We all have unique identities which, as we’ve discussed, impact our lives and our career choices, but what about your upbringing and social context growing up?
Some of our identities may give us hints, but it is also important to think about:
opportunities ...
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Prof. Ron Baecker
The Technologies for Aging Gracefully lab (TAGlab)
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
HCII Invited Course
Los Angeles, 4 August 2015
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Family, Culture, & Career
Week 2
Highs & Lows
Can omit if you would like, but I think my students liked this last quarter!
Weekly Poll
Today’s Agenda
Discussion: Genogram Trends
Culture & Social Context
Psychology of Working
Upcoming Deadlines
Assessment Introduction
Genogram Reflection Paper
What is “Culture”?
Set of guidelines that people inherit from their social environments
that guide how they view the world, respond to it, and behave
in it.
Not synonymous with race, ethnicity, social class, or
immigration status
Impacts us continuously, whether we are aware of it or not
Fluid and changes as cultures and individuals interact
Transmitted across generations
Privilege exists within cultures
and most career theories do not adequately address it…
Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Model: Exploration of Identity & Social Context
Interaction between your own identities, social location and agency, specific life events and circumstances, and upbringing
Family can provide important context
Don’t exist in isolation - impacted by external things/systems.
E.g., Fish metaphor (you are the fish, what is the fish bowl you are living in?) - zooming out
Breakout Rooms
(next slide)
Genogram Trends
Small Group Discussion
What did you notice?
What are the trends?
How do you want to follow these patterns or chart a new part?
Multiple Identities
We all have multiple identities that shape us and our daily experiences.
Some identities may offer us advantages, and others may offer us disadvantages
Assumptions about us based on these identities will be made, and these assumptions also impact us.
Having awareness of your identities and how they impact you as a person is important, for yourself as a person and your career.
Identities can be formed by culture but culture can also be formed by identity.
Model of Multiple Dimensions of Identity
Based on Social Identities
“portion of an individual's self-concept derived from perceived membership in a relevant social group”
(Jones & MkEwen, 2000)
“portion of an individual's self-concept derived from perceived membership in a relevant social group”
Model of Multiple Dimensions of Identity (cont.)
(Jones & MkEwen, 2000)
Start with your core
Which is most salient to you?
(gets an atom near the core)
What is least salient?
(gets a point farther away from the core)
What, if any, salient identities do not appear on this chart?
What do you notice about the identities that are closer to your core?
Reactions?
How might our identities impact our career choices and interests?
How might others’ assumptions and beliefs about us based on our identities impact our career and interests?
Your Social Context
We all have unique identities which, as we’ve discussed, impact our lives and our career choices, but what about your upbringing and social context growing up?
Some of our identities may give us hints, but it is also important to think about:
opportunities ...
Technology Life Balance and Addiction: Gaming, Pornography, TV AddictionCity Vision University
This presentation looks at technology related addiction like facebook addiction, gambling addiction, gaming addiction, information diet, media boundaries, media diet, media nutrition, pornography addiction. How do you create boundaries and balance? How do we use media for growth?
Protecting kids from a most deadly disease!Ernie Medina
Lecture given by Ernie Medina, Jr., DrPH, on Aug. 17, 2011, for a grad class at Loma Linda Univ. School of Public Health. Professor: Serena Tonstadt, MD. Topic: getting kids to be more physically active.
Prof. Ron Baecker
The Technologies for Aging Gracefully lab (TAGlab)
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
HCII Invited Course
Los Angeles, 4 August 2015
Youth with mental health disorders may face challenges in their homes, school, community, and interpersonal relationships.
Mental health problems in youth often go hand-in-hand with other health and behavioral risks like increased risk of drug use, experiencing violence
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2. to Learn,
Replace
create Jobs,
reduce Crime,
achieve Goals,
manage Stress
Punishment+ =
People
Success!
Brain Health &
Wellness
Brain food, fitness, gaming,
teamwork and practice
Brain-Friendly Laws & Lifestyles?
Motto:
Healthy Brain, Wealthy Decisions
will make Jamaica first world!
Can Brain Health precede Education,
Salvation, Justice and Employment?
3. 1. Is Life frequently changing and challenging?
Are situations, regulations and reality changing?
Critical Questions for Success
3. Is the Global Economy requiring people to do creative
‘intellectual’ Brain work while machines do ‘muscular’ work?
In Summary: How will Brain-Friendly Laws & Lifestyles
empower job creation, crime reduction and social harmony?
2. Will people suffer the consequences? Or utilize their Brains
as the agent of change to learn, adapt and succeed in life?
C: Adapt to Challenges
4. Does Punishment block exploring, learning and creativity?
Are people ‘conforming’ like robots to do muscular work?
B: Get Global Jobs/MoneyA: Replace Punishment
4. The Mind: Results 20% successful people
(E.g. Jamaica in Caribbean –growing prisons;
80% youths globally not competitive;
highest number of churches per square mile;
500 of 7,000 needed nutritionists & psychologists;
87% youths get violent punishment;
14,000 or 3-times the 5,000 needed police;
people Work to Eat: hunger drives Survival)
The Mind can
heal, develop or
abuse the Brain
Brain Health & Wellness
auto-direct the
Mind towards
CreativityThe Brain
Born Hardware
(Cells, Senses,
Instincts and
Feelings:
90% control)
Nutrition,
Fitness,
Gaming,
Wellness
The Mind
Steering Software
(Rational Decision
Making or
Critical Thinking:
10% control)
Divinity,
Spirituality,
Information
Religion,
Government,
Business
Institutions aim to
mass produce the
Mindset Models
of 5% successful
people.
E.g. Jesus & Buddha
The Brain: Results 80% successful people
(E.g. Denmark in Scandinavia –closing prisons;
low unemployment & highly skilled workforce;
happiest country in the world since 1976;
over 13,000 nutritionists & psychologists;
outlawing punishment since 1911;
11,000 police to 6 million people;
people Eat to Work: health drives Innovation)
The Brain system uses
research & technology to resolve
Brain developmental challenges
The Mind system often uses
punishment & reward to resolve
Brain developmental challenges
The Mind: How Can Thoughts affect your Health? E.g. Mental Depression
Jamaica’s Brain to Mind Gap?
The Jesus principle: health b4 salvation: ‘be healed’; then self-direct: ‘go & sin no more’ –John 5:14
The Brain: How Can Health affect your Thoughts? E.g. Flu or Dengue
The GAP
4. Replace Punishment with
Brain-Friendly Laws & Lifestyles
2. Dietary/Nutrition Training
3. Neuro Psychotherapy Training
80% Successful Jamaicans require?
1. Like Sex Food and Muscle Food,
we need Brain Food to Innovate
The IF: Is Education about people using their Thoughts logically & critically?
THEN: Should Schools be developing Superb Brain Health to drive learning? Yes
Brain food, fitness, gaming and teamwork must be used to support office, bible & book learning
Yes, if learning is 90% ‘biological wellness’, can bright eyes, acute hearing,
sharp smell, sensitive touch and discerning feelings provide in-depth
information to develop a strong Mind for Critical Thinking and survival?
Brain Health & Wellness is 90% of learning – by Neuroscience, New Biology & Learning Pyramid
Healthy BRAIN Hardware develops Strong MIND Software
HENCE: How can Gov. Rel. & Biz. use B/Health to impact Jobs, Crime & Society?
1
2
3
4
GAP: Brain
Developmental
Stages and
Disabilities 5
Is this Society designed for human Success?
1. Does it lack understanding of basic human needs?
2. Is Brain health and wellness driving Creativity?
E.g. when the phone Battery (or Biology) is weak will all the Apps (or Mind) work properly? No
5. What Happens During A Brain Injury?
2. Is the Brain
made of Flesh/Cells?
conscious
thought
spatial
reasoning
visual
processing language and
face recognition
balancing
4. Where do Thoughts
& Attitude come from?
1. Is the Brain
Self Directing?
Auto fix, learn, adapt
Rear Lobes
Feelings &
Motor Skills
Front Lobes
Rational
Decision
Making
3. How can You make
Flesh Healthy or Sick?
Frontal LobeParietal Lobe
Occipital
Lobe
Temporal Lobe
Injury
6. 1. Why did God move Moses from his parents to Pharaoh?
Moses, Food, Laws & Punishment?
3. How did God try to fix people’s Behavior or Brain problem?
2. After the Red Sea what did God give the people to eat?
4. What occurred during 40 years looking for the Promised Land?
5. What was so great about the Promised Land of Canaan?
6. Were the parentless Young People Self-Directed in Canaan?
After 400 years of slavery? A move from Muscle Food to get Brain Food
The Commandments, Food Laws and Punishment
The Parents died in the wilderness and left the young people
Lots of good tasty Brain Food
God uses Health & Wellness to Self-Direct the Brain
Heavenly Manna (like grains) is Brain Food, but it was rejected for Quail meat
7. Scan of: The Healthy vs. Abused Brain?
Can Lifestyle, Food and Punishment damage the Brain? Yes
Children with
damaged brains
(Front Lobes)
unknowingly
misbehave, but to
avoid punishment
they are forced and
trained (early) to
“retroactively give
arbitrary cultural
reasons" of apologies
to satisfy parents
who believe that
mischief is caused by
evil, unruly and poor
thoughts.
CDC(USA, 2011)
8. USA Crisis & The Learning Pyramid?
Fake Learning via
Lecturing, telling,
commanding,
monologues and
reading ‘Words’
Real Learning
via ‘Teams sharing
and practicing’ to
solve problems
The human brain does not
effectively learn or retain
by ‘words’, especially
without a team actively
solving a problem.
National Training Laboratories (USA, 2000)
Can ‘Words’ really create Learning & modify Behavior?
Learning needs habitual
motor skill actions and
positive feelings;
not mere words
If Learning by Words = 10%
then what is used to really
modify people’s behavior?
E.g. You can learn words, but
You cannot learn by words.
Try ‘reading’ to ride a bike?
Colonial Punishment = 90%
9. ‘Inherited’ Colonial Institutions disregard & brutalize the brain:
UWI,
STATIN,
UNICEF,
WHO,
MOE,
Gleaner,
Observer
(2011)
Jamaica’s Brain Problem?
* Widespread brain illnesses related to lifestyle diseases including obesity,
diabetes, stroke, hormonal imbalance and cancer: over 70,000 die annually
* 20%-30% youths suffer disability & without special education resources
* 1200 murders annually for over 20 years without any ideological purpose
* 80% of youths are dropouts without globally competitive skills
* 87% of children experience violent discipline, flogging & abuse
10. Takeaway Questions?
to Learn,
Replace
create Jobs,
reduce Crime,
achieve Goals,
manage Stress
Punishment+ =
People
Success!
Brain Health &
Wellness
2. How can people
‘creatively adapt’
to challenges,
without conforming?
1. To Self-Direct
the Brain, what will
you do to Modify
Behavior without
words & punishment?
Brain food, fitness,
gaming, teamwork
and practice
4. Would you like to Volunteer in our
Brain & Lifestyle Symposium?
Presents a Powerful and Exciting
Brain & Lifestyle Symposium
www.krysglobal.com
GLOBAL
Healthy Brain, Wealthy Decisions
will make Jamaica first world!
on
Parents, Teachers, Students, Pastors,
Employees, Managers, Law Enforcers
Come join the excitement and see how:
Venue: Pegasus Hotel
22-July-2016 at 12-6pm
Admission: $100
Refreshments provided
Presentations & Exhibitions:
Nutrition, Behavior Therapy, Education, Game
Playing, Employment, Religion, Law Enforcement
Prizes &
Surprises
3. What will
Brain-Friendly
Laws & Lifestyles
achieve?