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Episode 9: The Brain's Journey to Resilience with Nancy Mannix of the Palix Foundation


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"The Brain Story is a story about how experiences shape our brains. As such, it is also a story about human relationships, because we depend on those around us for the experiences that build our brain architecture."-Alberta Family Wellness Initiative

In this episode of The Rise Resilient Podcast, Nancy Mannix, the Chair and Patron of the Palix Foundation, shares how the Brain Story Certification came to be 10 years ago, and how today, it is changing lives and whole communities. 

The Palix Foundation is a private foundation in Alberta, Canada, whose philanthropy aims to ultimately support improved health and wellness outcomes for all children and families. The Foundation, through the Alberta Family Wellness Initiative focuses on creating alignment between science, policy and practice in the areas of brain development and its implications for child development, mental health and addiction, ultimately generating changes at an individual, organizational and systems level.

"The scientific information we have about the effect of early childhood experiences on brain development and subsequently on adult health must be translated into a form that makes sense to a non-expert audience. Through the translation process, scientific concepts are explained in a consistent, accessible narrative framework known as the Brain Story

 The Brain Story is an interdisciplinary body of knowledge about early childhood experiences, brain development, epigenetics, intergenerational factors, and outcomes.

The online course, Brain Story Certification, is a course that utilizes the science from the Brain Story, now being used throughout the world. The course is free and consists of 19 self-paced modules, that includes 39 of North America's and Europe’s leading experts in neurobiological development and its connection to physical and mental health, including addiction. Their video lectures are excerpts from Symposia hosted in Alberta between 2010 and 2014 and includes topics on children's mental health, the impact of adverse childhood experiences, toxic stress, addiction and resilience. 

Register for the FREE Brain Story Course here:

https://www.albertafamilywellness.org/training

Learn more:

AFWI DEVELOPMENTAL EVALUATION REPORT

FROM KNOWLEDGE TO ACTION: USING BRAIN STORY SCIENCE TO IMPROVE OUTCOMES FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES IN ALBERTA

THE BRAIN STORY IN BLACKPOOL


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Rise ResilientBy Agnes Chen