Dr. K Offers 4 Training Themes for Communities, Families, Teachers, Schools & Informal Learning Spaces:
1. ANSMIC for Indigenous Communities
2. Heart of the Brain for All Communities
3. 4 Neurological Imperatives from Teaching to Every Kid’s Potential: Simple Neuroscience Lessons to Liberate Learners (WW Norton, 2021) for All Communities
4. A Deep Dive on Neurodivergence & Twice Exceptionality for All Communities – simple explanations of neurologies, baffling behaviors, mindsets, learning needs, and how to shift and coach these
Animating Neurological Skills, Emotions & Mindsets in Indigenous Communities – ANSMIC (C) 2021, All Rights Reserved – A Medicine Wheel in a Box
Dr. K created this tool to marry the teachings from her book, Teaching to Every Kid’s Potential: Simple Neuroscience Lessons to Liberate Learners (W.W. Norton, 2021), with everyday life in indigenous communities and families through her unique curriculum, Animating Neurological Skills & Mindsets in Indigenous Communities (ANSMIC©, 2021). The teachings apply whether you are tending a 3 year-old, a 13 year-old, a 23 year-old, or yourself! Dr. K’s ANSMIC© (2021) joins fresh information from the learning sciences with time immemorial so that you and your family/you and your classroom can thrive because of each other and not at the expense of each other. It is possible to tend the repetition, practice, and the enforcement of structure and boundaries for and with children, teens, and young adults without negatively impacting your own anxiety levels and behavioral health.
Animating Neurological Skills & Mindsets in Indigenous Communities (ANSMIC) – “Spirit Mind Body Clay“ – (C) 2021, All Rights Reserved – For native youth, young adults and families – this program is a curriculum and collaborative experience. The emphasis of this project, funded by the NM Healthcare Authority, Behavioral Health Services Department (NM HCA BHSD) Native American suicide prevention effort, is to teach families, teens and young adults about the impact of developing executive functioning skills, how they feel and apply in daily life, and ways to strategically support oneself and others. Dr. K coaches and fosters the skills developing in the mind and brain that help us to know and manage ourselves, and navigate our world and our future.
Currently Offering keynotes, motivational talks, and workshops based on 4 teachings (Flexibility, Readiness, Connection, Unmasking) from Dr. K’s book about brain health, wellness, neurodivergence, learning, creativity, mitigating the effects trauma, and optimizing the effects of team structure on individual and group thinking and performance — these apply to all of us, not just children!
Where has Dr. K been recently?
Inaugural Northern Pueblo Men’s Conference – BRO – Bringing Resilience & Observations, Black Mesa Behavioral Health, San Ildefonso Pueblo, NM
National Association of Social Workers, NM Chapter, Sandia Resort, Albuquerque, NM
The New Mexico Association for the Education of Young Children (NMAEYC) Preconference, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Southwest Consortium of Indian Head Start Programs, Native American Child & Family Conference, Isleta Resort, Albuquerque, NM
Chavez County Early Childhood Coalition, Roswell, NM
Los Alamos County Early Childhood Coalition, Family Strengths Network, Los Alamos, NM
Community Heath Education and Resiliency Program, Albuquerque Area Indian Health Board, Inc., Farmington, NM
Learning & The Brain in Collaboration with the Stanford Graduate School of Education and Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, San Francisco, CA
Heart of the Brain (C) 2014 is a unique workshop format that incorporates the latest in human neuroscience into usable practical tenets to improve your learning opportunity and quality of life. I want you to “feel what I mean, not just hear what I say.”
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Heart of the Brain Testimonials
You are like the genie in the bottle.
Your presentation was accessible and brilliant! I cannot wait to continue to follow your research and watch you change the world.
Layne led us into a world of science, mystery and health with an extraordinary, serendipitous exploration of the latest developments in brain research, personal learning, and developmental psychology. Her facilitation was measured, informal, personal and mind-changing. Integrating her American Indian heritage with her training as a neuroscientist, she triggered the best of creative dialog and conversation among the group. Her ability to honor and validate folks in their own respective journeys was, in my experience as a retreat leader, remarkable.
Layne is an exquisite workshop leader who invites participates to sharpen practical, on-the-ground skills, insights, and perspectives on themselves and the environments that surround them. She’s a treasure for learning communities that hold respect for the hard evidence of the sciences while appreciating that we are all carried along by a great mystery.
Layne Kalbfleisch’s Heart of the Brain engages and educates all your senses. I truly felt what she meant, and it deepened through her guided imagery portion of the workshop. This exercise led me to strengthen my own intuition, self-healing and desire to understand my heart, of my brain.
Layne’s kind, authentic spirit connects with each participant as she shares her wealth of knowledge and research into the depths of the individual nervous system. I am grateful I was able to attend and I highly recommend Heart of the Brain workshop.
You hit just the right spot for an audience of educated laypersons — high level, but covered the basics. Lots of valuable information!
Meet Layne/Dr. K:
Dr. Layne Kalbfleisch on Unmasking with The Reading & Language Learning Center
Kalbfleisch, M.L. (February, 2022). Teaching to Every Kid’s Potential: Simple Neuroscience Lessons to Liberate Learners. Learning & The Brain: The Science of Teaching & Stanford Graduate School of Education, San Francisco, CA.
Kalbfleisch, M.L. (March, 2025). Mental Illness and Creativity: An Update. National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), Santa Fe Chapter, Santa Fe, NM.
Kalbfleisch, M.L. (April, 2016). From Concept to Characterization – Assessing Adaptive and Maladaptive Learning Processes in High Capacity Learners. Invited European-American Summit on the Psychology of Talent Development, American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C.
Kalbfleisch, M.L. (May, 2015). The New Story of Water. Blue Mind 5 Symposium, Carnegie Institute of Science, Washington, D.C.