Online Participants
Anyone can improve their brain organization. This includes kids with diagnoses, such as ADHD, ADD, autism, learning disabilities, reactive attachment disorder, and sensory integration problems, obsessive compulsive disorder, and more. This also includes kids who are falling behind academically, appear uncoordinated, have difficulty focusing, struggle with organization, as well as those who just want to maximize their potential.
Core Age Group
We created the program especially for kids ages 3-14.
Older Teens and Young Adults (15+)
Our program is easily adaptable for older teens. In such case, they participate in the daily floor work just as our younger participants do, but they then select which of the other weekly activities are most suitable for them. Teens and young adults often enjoy listening to many of the audio clips created for parents. Here, their parents select those they think would be of most interest to their teen or young adult.
To initially help motivate teens and young adults to participate, parents share with them that many adults--including neuroscientists, doctors, lawyers, teachers, sports writers, dentists, etc.—have all done the program as everyone can benefit from fine-tuning their brain.
But most of all, we encourage parents of teens to treat the daily floor work (which is the primary part of the program to develop this part of the brain) as a job. In other words, the teen or young adult receives some form of payment (e.g. a weekly "check," money towards something they want to buy, or credit towards paying their car insurance, etc.).
In return, the teen also treats the daily floor work like a job (e.g. does it without complaining, as directed, and so on).
Note that since the teens and young adults learn "why" we’d want to organize our brain throughout the program, they often do the floor work without any nudging. In fact they’re usually relieved that they now have an answer as to why they may have struggled with this or that in the past.
Adopted Children
We’ve had great success with families of adopted kids. In fact, after participating in our program, many of our families contact their adoption agency to ask why this kind of information isn’t made available to all adopting parents.
In truth, if children have retained primitive reflexes and underdeveloped lower centers of the brain—it’s often not enough just to love them (and that’s true for birth families, too). Adoptive parents intuitively sense that something seems to prevent these kids from receiving love—even though it's being given freely and they’re now living in a very nurturing home.
That’s why our approach is very different than what is generally presented for adopted kids diagnosed with reactive attachment disorder, as well as those without a diagnosis (but who are struggling a lot).
Specifically, our approach addresses three variables: the underdevelopment of lower centers of the brain (which is very common among kids who were in orphanages in their early years of life), how such kids have processed and internalized their experiences when trying to function without basic brain highways, and (this is very important) what kinds of brain maps they’ve created as a result of how others have interacted with them.
In short, if we don’t address retained primitive reflexes and underdeveloped lower centers of the brain, “talk” therapy (alone) isn’t usually effective. That’s because we can’t really reason or communicate with a child who is mostly functioning in survival mode.
But neurological reorganization, in itself, is not usually enough, either. That’s why our program also includes many components that address how to change prior unproductive perceptions and interactions with the child (that may be inadvertently keeping negative behaviors alive).
Adults
Many parents decide to do the program (i.e. organize their own brain) alongside their kids, and we welcome them to do that. In such case, please note that we do not provide individual feedback on parents’ progress with their lower brain development unless they’ve officially enrolled in the program.