Mindfulness and brain science for parents, teachers, schools and communities.
Breakthrough Training Institute (BTI), created by Norma Neumann-Johnson, is a program with powerful tools from mindfulness and brain science for parents, teachers, schools and communities.
Neumann-Johnson founded two and led one of the award-winning Breakthrough Magnet Schools, North and South, in Hartford, Connecticut, and embedded mindfulness, social-emotional learning, restorative discipline, and the brain-based research for all, into school operations for students and staff.
Emotional intelligence is now being seen in the workplace as being as important as traditional intelligence - or even more so. The strategies contained in BTI courses address the need for positive, encouraging discipline approaches that are vital when used with children throughout their developing years. Use of these strategies increases cooperation and positive interaction between children, and among children and adults, and are relationship-altering as children grow and learn every day. Neumann-Johnson's new book, Be A B.R.I.C.K. not a Marshmallow, on sale now in this website's store, is a guide for the social emotional learning and character development of students at the two Breakthrough Schools, refreshingly presented.
Neumann-Johnson founded two and led one of the award-winning Breakthrough Magnet Schools, North and South, in Hartford, Connecticut, and embedded mindfulness, social-emotional learning, restorative discipline, and the brain-based research for all, into school operations for students and staff.
Emotional intelligence is now being seen in the workplace as being as important as traditional intelligence - or even more so. The strategies contained in BTI courses address the need for positive, encouraging discipline approaches that are vital when used with children throughout their developing years. Use of these strategies increases cooperation and positive interaction between children, and among children and adults, and are relationship-altering as children grow and learn every day. Neumann-Johnson's new book, Be A B.R.I.C.K. not a Marshmallow, on sale now in this website's store, is a guide for the social emotional learning and character development of students at the two Breakthrough Schools, refreshingly presented.
Having a very different view of how my children’s brains 'work' - not yet fully developed - has enabled me to approach situations with them with a much different mind-sight of my own. I am able to see the situations with less frustration and more understanding. Family meetings are something we will continue, as they have been a great success already. The I-messages are a non-inflammatory way to approach tough situations, and I can use them at work! |
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Greater Self-control, Ability to Focus
Neumann-Johnson is certified as a mindfulness instructor by Mindful Schools of Emeryville, CA. BTI courses incorporate decades of helping school leaders, staff, parents and communities in developing emotional intelligence in students, resulting in greater self-control and ability to focus.
Trainings are available for parents, students, teachers, administrators, and others.
Trainings are available for parents, students, teachers, administrators, and others.