
Understanding Interest-Based Nervous System (Part 1)


How do educators support the investment of self-learning in their students? How does the freedom of choice in learning empower students? How do teachers facilitate a learning process that acknowledges varied interests and talents of students? How can the whole person—thinking, sensing, intuiting, and feeling self—be invited on the journey of a less
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By optimizing the brain’s full capacity for social learning, these practices expand the mind’s openness to shared introspection and corrective dialogue; and by cultivating that shift in a stable, supportive social learning environment, they sustain that openness though repeated practice over time. As a result, they facilitate a gradual dismantling
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