Meet Sharon

YOUR INTERIOR DESIGN – AN OVERVIEW

Based in attachment research, Your Interior Design is an  approach for developing self-esteem for lifelong learning and relational effectiveness. Research shows that emotionally encouraging relationships influence a child’s developing brain, endocrine, and immune systems. In the school setting, the art of mirroring emotional acknowledgement and acceptance to a child is foundational to a healthy mind/body and the ability to receive love and sustain joy for whole brain learning, health, and success.

In creating this model, it is Sharon Kuhn’s mission that all people be equipped to be their true self and live in self-esteem. Self-esteem is defined as the ability to have a focused self, not a self-focus. With a focused self, confidence and self-expression naturally lead to autonomy where individuality leads to ultimate success. And as a child grows to be their true self, they’re able to take part in co-creating healthy community conscience.

A BRAIN BUILDING MODEL:

Research shows that the brain is experience dependent and shaped resiliently in the novel experience of feeling emotionally, physically, and mentally felt, seen, and heard. For that reason, the safer and happier a child feels, the more their brain is shaped with chemicals for developing their intelligence. This model equips practitioners with a series of best practice tools for increasing empathy and capacity to share and identify with a child’s thoughts and feelings bringing inner potential, the inner mind of the child, out of isolation and into belonging. Ten  tools identify a set of unique features making up a composite to be considered as the child’s unique circuitry of self-esteem. In reality it is a way to identify, organize and affirm brain “maps” for learning.

THE EXPERIENCE:

Through group training and 1:1 coaching, participants learn foundations of resilience and trauma-informed modalities for ensuring the psychological safety essential for coregulating students’ vulnerability in learning. Sharing states of mind is known to flood the brain with emotional security which elevates mind/body chemistry for focus and collaboration. In shared states of security, students innovate rapidly.  

SKILLS - PROCEDURAL, REFLECTIVE AND METACOGNITIVE:

While empathetic environments increase students’ sense of calm, procedures that support both the practitioner’s and student’s understanding of how their body is responding to joy or stress on a biological level provides everyone with confidence to manage important shifts. This experiential learning guides practitioners and students in-training as actively involved participants. Techniques are self-practiced during workshops and home practice by applying the “tools” to real-world problems which trainees themselves are facing. This novel exposure  provides personal experience for embedding “new maps” of awareness of self-esteem and self-regulation from which to co-regulate the stress states and joy states of student’s learning and growth challenges. If practitioners cannot regulate their own stress states, they cannot calmly teach and meet the needs of the students in their care. 

Traditional programs have placed considerable emphasis on academic achievement alone with the emotional needs of the child being left unaddressed. Learning emotionally focused procedures for using high authority with low control enhances practitioners’ and students’ joy for transforming everyday interactions into developmentally rich experiences. In fact, an authoritative style is seldomly required when cultures are highly bonding, predictably stable, empathetic, and consistent. The procedures and reflective modalities empower metacognitive awareness for maximizing outcomes.

THE HIGHEST CAPACITY FOR LEARNING- INTEGRATION:

Brain science shows that when the right orbitofrontal cortex, housing the “self” is highly activated, organized, integrated, and regulated through experiences of belonging and sharing states of mind, this area of the brain helps the whole brain work together.

TOOLS:

Your Interior Design contains a unique toolbox of written and experiential exercises for building awareness of the inner mind thereby strengthening self-esteem and regulating stress through 10 aspects of identity and growing competencies of awareness. Users increase confidence for interpreting and empathizing with the thoughts and feelings of others.  

3 PRE-WORK MODULES FOR UNDERSTANDING TRAUMA, INSECURE ATTACHMENT, BIOLOGY OF VAGAL TONE:

-       Effects of trauma/insecure attachment

-       Secure attachment for optimal vagal tone  brain

-       Power of empathy

THE TEN ASPECTS OF YOUR INTERIOR DESIGN

MODULES 1-3

-       Attachment styles

-       Core fears

-       Love languages

MODULES 4-7

-       Styles of power

-       Personality styles

-       Multiple intelligences (9)

-       Learning styles (7)

MODULES 8-10

-        Introversion/Ambiversion/Extroversion

-       Family roles and parental projections/group roles and system projections

-       Processing speeds

-       All together now- a blend and review of all modules