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    You are at Home Michael Mendizza

    Michael Mendizza

    Michael is an author, educator, documentary filmmaker and founder of Touch the Future, a nonprofit learning design center. His book, Magical Parent-Magical Child, the Art of Joyful Parenting, co-authored with Joseph Chilton Pearce, applies research on optimum states to parenting and to education. Michael is developing two additional books; Kids are Not The Problem, a series of essays on parenting the next critical generation and Flowering, a collection of dramatic floral images (see: zfolio.com) and quotes by Krishnamurti.Inspiration for this work emerged from personal relationships with Pearce, physicist David Bohm, philosopher J. Krishnamurti, and over one hundred scientists, authors and educators. If being in an optimum state is important to professional athletes, imagine what this could mean to parents, childcare providers, educators, coaches and the children they love. Michael writes and speaks internationally on the Next Frontier in Education, The Intelligence of Play, Transcendent Mentoring of This And Future Generations, Media and the Brain, Corporate Exploitation of Children, The Brave New World of Un-Schooling and Home-Schooling, Seven Principles that Transform Adults and Children, The Childlike Mind, Rational Imagination, Raising Children in a Sport-Crazed Culture, and other topics.Magical Parent – Magical Child With Joseph Chilton Pearce
    Magical Parent-Magical Child, the Optimum Learning Relationship is the first book to define parenting, coaching and educating children as developmental, transformative practices for adults. The central theme of the book is the transformation of childhood through the transformation of adults. Our goal is to optimize the adult-child interface by applying the proven strategies that allow top athletes and other specialists to consistently perform at extraordinary levels. If optimum learning, performance and well-being is the goal when relating to tennis balls and hockey pucks, what about you and I? What about our children? Do they, or we, deserve anything less?
    We do this by helping adults rediscover the “playful” and “childlike” genius of their own innate intelligence, as they guide, learn from and mentor children, which awakens and develops in adults new capacities and possibilities. Infusing the adult-child relationship with this fresh creative energy and attention transforms the adult which results in a radically different learning environment for children. Changing the adult changes the environment we call childhood. This transforms the child, which cycles back and transforms the adult. We call this playful, reciprocal-dynamic, the Optimum Learning Relationship.
    The book develops this theme by exploring and applying the psychology of optimum experience to parenting, childcare, education and coaching. Research shows that the “state” athletes call the Zone, what researchers and professionals call Flow and what children call Play share the basic characteristic of complete self-less absorption and engagement in the moment. This “state” of complete unconflicted behavior is nature’s baseline, her expectation, for optimum learning, performance and well-being. Yoga, meditation and athletics, when approached in their true spirit, attune us to this optimum state. Looking deeper we discover that all learning, performance and wellness is “state specific.” States of being are primary; they come first, filter and define what we learn, how we perform, and our relative wellness or disease, moment to moment.

    Attachment Parenting / Bonding
    Feb 6, 2018 Michael Mendizza

    I Wish…

    Parents and the people who care about children understood how different the child's reality is from our, more or less, adulterated version.…
    Attachment Parenting / Bonding
    Dec 18, 2017 Michael Mendizza

    Sexual Predators, God In The Sky, And The Rape Of Mother Nature

    Imagine growing from conception and throughout childhood without being blamed or shamed, punished or rewarded. No corporal punishments, i.e., spanking. No bribes,…
    Attachment Parenting / Bonding
    Oct 10, 2017 Michael Mendizza

    Taming The Dragon Within

    Marshall Rosenberg's core principles of nonviolent communication are sound. Personal conflict arises when needs (and their underlying feelings) are not being met.…
    Attachment Parenting / Bonding
    Jul 23, 2017 Michael Mendizza

    Almost Three

    Standing chest deep on the third step of grandpa’s pool Carly began to sing, arms up dancing across her imagined stage. “I’m…
    Attachment Parenting / Bonding
    Jun 4, 2017 Michael Mendizza

    Playful Wisdom: A Father’s Adventure

    LIMITED TIME OFFER: Order a first edition, autographed hard copy of Playful Wisdom and receive a soft copy FREE. Reserve your order…
    Attachment Parenting / Bonding
    May 19, 2017 Michael Mendizza

    Home Base: The “Safe Place” We Are To Our Children

    The player steps up to home base. While at the plate, he or she is perfectly safe. From this position of safety…
    Child development
    Feb 21, 2017 Michael Mendizza

    The 45 Million Word Difference

    "O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel…
    Attachment Parenting / Bonding
    Jan 30, 2017 Michael Mendizza

    At The Crossroads

    Walking with Carly to the park today, I realized that my anxiety had disappeared. The warm sun was bouncing off the freshly…
    Attachment Parenting / Bonding
    Nov 23, 2016 Michael Mendizza

    Changing The World From The Inside Out

    This must be the way European Jews felt as the roots of the Nazi holocaust began cracking through the pavement we call…
    Attachment Parenting / Bonding
    Oct 12, 2016 Michael Mendizza

    Quiet Hugs

    Morning and Muse often arrive together. Today their light cast long shadows across the wood floor. The house was still. Up before…
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