Founder of Academy for Coaching Parents Wins Prestigious Book Award
Caron B. Goode, Ed.D.
October 23, 2009
Their book Raising Intuitive Children: Guide Your Children To Know & Trust Their Gifts (New Page Books, May 2009) focuses on how children with intuitive intelligence best learn in school and in life. As opposed to being visual or auditory learners, intuitive children feel their way through learning experiences and require movement rather than sitting in an desk for hours at a time. Intuitive Parents often have intuitive children as it seems to run in families.
The intuitive learner is one of four core temperament styles taught in coaching courses at the Academy for Coaching Parents International. The other three core temperaments are the Doer, who thrives on achievement, the Thinker who values logic and data, and the Harmonizer who best adapts to those around him.
All children have natural intuitive moments. Yet, the intuitive learners are highly skilled or gifted in this talent in the same way that others have a talent for math, music, languages or physical dexterity.
Since each of us has a preference in how we relate to the world, the book, Raising Intuitive Children, shows how children with an intuitive learning style and intuitive intelligence view and interact with people, tasks and the environment.
Children with intuitive intelligence have traits that manifest in different ways along a continuum of normal skills to gifted talents:
Children who learn through feelings and process information kinesthetically. (Intuitive learning mode)
Children who are creative and artistic and intuition drives their motivation. (Artistic drive for exploring and creating, entrepreneurial)
Children whose intuitive intelligence is like a radar reading other people and understanding them. (Empathy and interpersonal skills)
Children who have intuitive episodes like dreams or a flash of creative insight. (Deep insight, precognition)
Children who are psychic. (Awareness of non-physical worlds through all senses or a specific sense.)
Intuition is the common denominator of these talents, and all children have the same intuitive capacities. Like musical prodigies and math geniuses, children display their intuitive talents differently. Some educators call the intutive kids the right-brainers! (Better than no-brainers, I guess)
The fields of education, parenting and psychology professionals recognize that children have multiple intelligences, and intuitive intelligence is the new kid on the block. All intelligences exist on a continuum of normal to gifted. There are math prodigies, musical geniuses and intuitive psychics. Intuitive intelligence stands as an entity deserving recognition. Brain mapping using EEG topography found that creativity and intuition are associated with theta waves usually linked with daydreaming or fantasizing. Theta waves are calm states in which intellectual activity at the conscious level isnīt occurring. Children and adults with ADHD produce excessive theta waves.
Our logical mind addresses stable patterns, snapshots of reality stored in our memory banks, for the practical living. The holistic or holographic side of our reality, intuitive intelligence comes from within. By focusing our attention on how intuition presents, we act from deeper understanding.
Intuitive intelligence operates on gestalts or whole pieces of information and functions from our memory, not logic. Intuitive ability is finally recognized as the fuel behind innovation, creative thinking, inspiration, insight, and psychic experiences. Because this child often follows the inner rhythm rather than that of the outer world, parents and teachers say something is wrong with this type of learner. Nothing could be further from truth, and this book provides compelling evidence and strategies for help intuitive kids be success and thrive. That is why the Academy for Coaching Parents will be offering training in working with children with intuitive intelligence on March 28-29, 2009 in grapevine, Texas. See www.academyforcoachingparents.com
For more information downloading a free book excerpt or contacting Dr. Goode regarding speaking engagements, see www.raisingintuitivechildren.com
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