Dr. K is booking now for Fall 2024!
Upcoming workshops include:
Reimagining Youth Wellness: A Caring Adults Summit in Collaboration with the Community Heath Education and Resiliency Program, Albuquerque Area Indian Health Board, Inc.: “The Lesson of the Tower & the Web – A Story of Connection” – Oct 1-2, 2024, Civic Center, Farmington, NM
Learning & The Brain in Collaboration with the Stanford Graduate School of Education and Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley: “The Science of Brain & Student Strengths: Creating Schools That Promote Student Strengths, Character, Compassionate, Gratitude, Hope, and Autonomy in a Dependent, Deficit-Focused World” – Feb 20-22, 2025, San Francisco, CA
Animating Neurological Skills & Mindsets in Indigenous Communities (ANSMIC) – (C) 2021, All Rights Reserved – For native teens – this program is a curriculum and collaborative experience with a Tewa potter from Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo, Clarence Cruz, grounded in Pueblo pottery making to coach and foster the skills developing in the mind and brain that help us to know and manage ourselves, and navigate our world and our future. Next sessions: Oct 2024, Jan 2025 and April 2025, Española, NM
Recent workshops include audiences with: The New Mexico Association for the Education of Young Children (NMAEYC), Southwest Consortium for Indian Head Start Programs, and NM Behavioral Health Services Department & Native American Sub-Committee (BHSD & NASC) Behavioral Health Summit.
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, and optimizing the effects of team structure on individual and group thinking and performance — these apply to all of us, not just children!
Heart of the Brain (C) 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.”
Heart of the Brain Testimonials:
On an evening and following morning in early July a group of us gathered for Layne Kalbfleisch’s ‘Heart of the Brain’ workshop at the Cedar Tree Institute in Marquette, Michigan. 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. We were a diverse group; a family physician, a construction worker, an artist, a social worker, a grandmother, a pastor and a psychotherapist. 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.
Jon Magnuson, MDiv., MSW, Director, The Cedar Tree Institute
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.
Layne Kalbfleisch is an excellent, very competent speaker on a very complex subject. She willingly shared her experiences as a scientist and what we can do ourselves to make these connections. She is also kind and generous to every participant. A great program and a lovely person.
She is a wonderful person, who provides academic knowledge with experiential parts spiced with a lot of humor and good vibes.
Layne Kalbfleisch, for being so young, has a wealth of experience researching the topic and was able to put her scientific research into layman’s terms and by combining with interactive exercises, and free time to explore nature gave a nice weekend workshop experience.
You hit just the right spot for an audience of educated laypersons — high level, but covered the basics. Lots of valuable information!
Your presentation was accessible and brilliant! I cannot wait to continue to follow your research and watch you change the world.
You are like the genie in the bottle.
Meet Layne/Dr. K:
Dr. Layne Kalbfleisch on Unmasking with The Reading & Language Learning Center
Dr. Layne Kalbfleisch on the Science Network
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. (February, 2020). A Discussion of Mental Illness & Creativity – Developmental Considerations, Part II. National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), Santa Fe Chapter, Santa Fe, NM.
Kalbfleisch, M.L. (October, 2018). How Epigenetics and Treatment Influence Cognition and Behavior in Developmental Disorders: Examples from Autism and Down Syndrome. Introduction to Pediatric Nursing, Northern New Mexico College, Espanola, NM.
Kalbfleisch, M.L. (September, 2016). Science & Mathematics Education – Neuroeducation Elucidates the Role of Intuitive Interference in Conceptual Reasoning. Discussant (with Patrice Potvin, Reuvin Babai, & Ruth Stavy), International Mind, Brain, and Education Society (IMBES), Toronto, CA.
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. (March, 2016). Gifted, Twice Exceptional, and The Study of Each (Both) – Emerging Insights from Cognitive Neuroscience. Breakthroughs in Twice Exceptional Education Conference, QUAD Preparatory School, New York, NY.
Kalbfleisch, M.L. (November, 2015). Gifted, Twice Exceptional, and The Study of Each (Both) – Emerging Insights from Cognitive Neuroscience. Keynote – Minnesota State Conference for the Gifted and Talented, Minneapolis, MN.
Kalbfleisch, M.L. (October, 2015). Resiliency Training: Relief and Release – Control PTSD, Don’t Let It Control You. Northern New Mexico College Veterans Resource Center, Espanola, NM.
Kalbfleisch, M.L. (May, 2015). The New Story of Water. Blue Mind 5 Symposium, Carnegie Institute of Science, Washington, D.C.