The Brain Possible

Janine Halloran is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who has been working with children, teens, and their families for 20 years. She has been helping children and teens build their coping skills throughout her career in a variety of settings, including schools, mental health clinics and in her private practice. She is the author of several books, including the bestselling Coping Skills for Kids Workbook and the Coping Skills for Teens Workbook.  Her work has been featured in the Boston Globe, CNN, Huffington Post, and The Skimm® Newsletter. Janine lives in Massachusetts with her husband and two children. 

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Dr. Robert Melillo is one of the world’s most sought after and respected experts in Developmental Functional Neurology, Brain Imbalances, hemispheric integration, and the diagnosis and correction of most neurobehavioral disorders and learning disabilities. He is also a successful businessman and entrepreneur and has developed many successful businesses. In 2006, he created Brain Balance Achievement Centers which has approximately 150 centers and has helped tens of thousands of families. He is a prolific author and brain researcher, he has published one major textbook titled Neurobehavioral Disorders of Childhood an Evolutionary Perspective. He has co-authored approximately 20 chapters in other texts on various subjects related to Dyslexia, Attention, Frontal Lobe Development etc. and he has also published approximately 50 peer-reviewed papers.  In addition, Dr. Melillo has also written 5 best-selling books including his best known Disconnected Kids which has been translated into 8 languages.

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Charles R. Solis, Jr. and Conceição Solis are the co-founders and directors of the REACH Family Institute, an educational organization specializing in teaching parents how to “parent with the brain in mind”. REACH serves children of all levels of ability from all segments of society. REACH focuses specifically on work with children with special needs and, under REACH's umbrella, BrainFit Kids focuses on work with "well" children.  Charles has degrees in Biology and Human Development and 46 years of experience teaching parents how to dramatically transform their children’s lives through enhanced brain development.  Conceição studied nursing, speech therapy, and Human Development. She has 44 years of experience teaching parents how to dramatically transform their children’s lives through enhanced brain development. She is an expert in the development of human functional ability. 

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Charles Barth is a founding member of School of Lunch, Inc, heads up Slow Food Ventura County, a non-profit dedicated to supporting local food systems and artisan producers. He has served on the CDFA/Certified Farmers Market Advisory Committee and operates Wildwood Heritage Provisions, sourcing foods directly from farmers and artisan producers in the SoCal region. He has led citizen science projects in schools utilizing Continuous Glucose Monitors(CGMs), teaching chefs, students, staff, and parents the direct effects of food and lifestyle on blood glucose levels. His mission is to help as many as possible establish deep-rooted, ancestral-based healthy habits around food.

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As a preschool teacher for 25 years, Carol observed many children with sensory processing differences, ADHD, and mild autism. To help them become more competent in their work and play, she learned to identify their sensory processing challenges and steer them into early intervention.  In her writings and workshops, she explains SPD's effect on children’s learning and behavior, and suggests fun and functional "In-Sync" activities. Her first book in the "Sync" series, "The Out-of-Sync Child," has been translated into 15 languages, including Spanish and Chinese, and has sold one million copies.   Her most recent publication, with Joye Newman, is a calendar called "A Year of Mini-Moves for the In-Sync Child." A graduate of Barnard College of Columbia University, Carol has a master’s degree in education and human development from The George Washington University.  She lives in Maryland, plays the cello, and dotes on five sensational grandchildren. Visit www.out-of-sync-child.com and www.insyncchild.com for more information.

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Charlie Hartwell is the Managing Partner of Bridge Builders Collaborative, a group of highly successful investors who have been investing in start-up companies in the space of mental health, consciousness, and spirituality. Some of their investments include Pear Therapeutics, Insight Timer, Headspace, and Happify Health. A Harvard Business School graduate, Charlie has served and led organizations in 14 different industries, including starting a nonprofit in the slums of Kenya in 1986 that has now served health care to several million patients. Maureen Pelton, MSSW, is a social scientist and spiritual teacher with 36 years of professional experience as a Holistic Psychotherapist, Executive Coach, Organizational Consultant, Adjunct Faculty, and Group Facilitator. Maureen is a teacher on Insight Timer, and is a Certified Advanced Practitioner of Quantum Neuro Reset Therapy, QNRT™ and is a partner of Bridge Builders Collaborative

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Rupa Mehta is a teacher, entrepreneur, author, and all-around health advocate. Rupa Mehta is here to talk about the importance of social-emotional learning, but with a bit of a twist. Rupa is the founder of the Nalini Method and NaliniKIDS, unique and revolutionary workout regimens which combine physical and emotional exercises for optimal health. As a fitness instructor, Rupa saw firsthand that encouraging her clients to work through their emotions while working out resulted in strengthening their bodies and minds, and knew that kids could benefit from this approach as much as adults. And now, in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Rupa has also created a free social-emotional curriculum for kids called Subject of Self, which aims to help students understand the who, what, and why of themselves, the same way they would strive to understand any subject. The idea being that social-emotional awareness comes first from an awareness of your own self. Developing a solid self-knowledge is vital in order for kids to learn to regulate their emotions, understand and deal with stress, and become better-equipped to navigate everything they face in life—whether it be a math exam, a great opportunity, or perhaps even a global pandemic. 

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Laura Sheehan is a former Pedi ICU and Neonatal ICU nurse for 15 years and for 18 years a family Upper Cervical Chiropractor. Her chapter in Pediatric Chiropractic has some interesting case studies of children exhibiting neurological challenges who were helped with the Atlas Orthogonal Chiropractic evaluation and adjustment. She loves babies and children of all ages and supports and salutes parents who think outside mainstream media and medicine.

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Dr. Laura Graye, founder of Medigraytion, LLC*, is a metaphysician and visionary scientist practicing the art of medical intuition. She has clinical practices in Boston and Nashville and is the creator of Walk the Talk: Shifting Your Consciousness One Step at a Time, 90-minute conscious therapy sessions walking around Boston Harbor (MA) and Radnor Lake (TN). Since she was a child, Laura has had a voracious appetite for exploring consciousness. Today she devotes herself to helping others witness and optimize the remarkable magic of vibrational medicine; the powerful role energy plays in our reality and how we all can tap into consciousness to improve our life and our health. 

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After doctors made her daughter ill with psychiatric drugs for her bladder infections, Dr. Mary Ann Block went to medical school at the age of 39 to save her. She not only learned what doctors learn but also what they don’t learn. This knowledge helped her think outside the box and save her own mother from metastatic, “terminal” lung cancer. In her medical practice, working with those diagnosed with ADHD and Autism, she invented Clarity Chair, a medical device that helps improve cognitive symptoms such as remembering, focus, behavior, communicating, listening, coordination, self-stimulation and improves the symptoms of Traumatic Brain Injury. 

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