01 Apr2025April 2, 2025
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Plan without Planning: The Zen of Preparing for a Greenspan Floortime® Session

Are you intrigued by the power of Greenspan Floortime® to connect with your child and foster their development? This play-based approach, focusing on following your child’s lead and joining their world, can feel both wonderfully intuitive and a little… daunting at first. How do you prepare for something that’s all about ‘being in the moment’?...

24 Mar2025March 25, 2025
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Environment Matters: Our Neurodiveristy IS NOT Static or Fixed

(Stanley I Greenspan MD Inc. and its intervention, The Greenspan Floortime Approach®, DO NOT endorse or support ICDL or its DIRFloortime curriculum) How Early Adversity Shapes the Developing Brain Childhood should be a time of wonder, growth, and boundless potential. However, for more than half the world’s children, this period is marred by adversity, leaving...

16 Mar2025March 19, 2025
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Bending Without Breaking: The Power of Social Emotional Flexibility

Bending Without Breaking: The Power of Social and Emotional Flexibility In a world that seems to shift on its axis daily, the ability to adapt and navigate change is more crucial than ever. While Flexibility is an important capacity for all people, the common misconception that a child’s compliance equates to emotional flexibility often leads...

04 Mar2025March 4, 2025
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Your Brain: The Time Traveler That Predicts Your Next Move

Our brains are not just passive recorders of the present; they’re dynamic, predictive machines constantly anticipating the future. This “predictive and anticipatory nature” is fundamental to how we navigate the world, learn, and even experience consciousness. It’s less like a camera capturing a scene and more like a sophisticated AI constantly running simulations. The Predictive...

28 Feb2025February 28, 2025
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How Emotions and Memories Focus Our Attention

How Emotions and Memories Focus Our Attention Attention is a complex cognitive process that allows us to focus on specific stimuli while filtering out others. It is essential for learning, decision-making, and social interaction. The nervous system plays a crucial role in attention by integrating information from different sensory modalities, such as vision, hearing, and...

13 Feb2025February 13, 2025
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Beyond Calm: Nurturing Regulation and Connection in Young Children

Beyond Calm: Nurturing Regulation and Connection in Young Children As parents and caregivers, we often strive for a calm and well-behaved child. However, it’s important to remember that true regulation goes beyond simply being quiet or obedient. Dr. Stanley Greenspan, a renowned child psychiatrist and developer of The Greenspan Floortime Approach®, emphasizes that calm is...

04 Feb2025February 4, 2025
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Responsive Caregiving: How Self-Reflection Enhances Emotional Attunement in Responsive Caregiving

Responsive Caregiving: How Self-Reflection Enhances Emotional Attunement in Responsive Caregiving What is Responsive Caregiving? Responsive caregiving, at its core, is about deeply understanding and attuning to the individual needs of the person being cared for.   It involves a dynamic and reciprocal process where the caregiver is sensitive to verbal and nonverbal cues, co-regulated interactions, responding...

21 Dec2024December 22, 2024
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Dynamic Structure

Dynamic Structure™ A misconception about Floortime is that it is highly “unstructured”. People mistakenly think that Floortime lets kids do whatever they want; there are no boundaries, expectations, or challenges. If you have learned and practiced The Greenspan Floortime Approach®, you know this is false. The Greenspan Floortime Approach® is a flexible, child-centered intervention that is highly adaptive...

19 Dec2024March 24, 2025
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Creating “Just Right” Play Spaces for Social-Emotional Growth: The ‘Goldilocks’ Greenspan Play Space

Creating “Just Right” Play Spaces for Social-Emotional Growth: The ‘Goldilocks’ Greenspan Play Space (Stanley I Greenspan MD Inc. and its intervention, The Greenspan Floortime Approach®, DO NOT endorse or support ICDL or its DIRFloortime curriculum) Remember the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears? She was constantly searching for things that were “just right” –...

11 Dec2024January 14, 2025
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Neuroscience in Education: Why the brain Isn’t going to school (or therapy)

Neuroscience in Education: Why the brain Isn’t going to school, or therapy (Stanley I Greenspan MD Inc. and its intervention, The Greenspan Floortime Approach®, DO NOT endorse or support ICDL or its DIRFloortime curriculum) Child development, education, and therapy often cling to familiar methods, even when research offers conclusive advancements. According to Gerry Leisman at...