By Rachel Orenstein UA ’24 and Jim Stellar This blog is fundamentally about how experiential education activities reshape and enhance the classical college experience of courses and majors. Recently, Jim had a business administration major, Rachel, take one of his … Continued
Cortical subcortical integration and decisions: An amygdala-prefrontal cortex neural circuit case study Vanessa Nyblom UA ’25 and Jim Stellar In experiential education, college students integrate the limbic or emotional logic of a direct experience, such as an internship, with their … Continued
Genuine feedback is critical for growth, particularly for a new supervisor. Lindsay Jacobs QC’10 and Jim Stellar Lindsay and Jim met at Queens College when she was a student, and he was a provost. They stayed in touch through the … Continued
Presence in Experiential Education, Montessori school teaching, and the role of hands-on learning By Stephanie Ortiz and Jim Stellar After our last blog on Stephanie’s experience with hands-on learning in a Montessori elementary school and how that applies to the … Continued
Pathways between prefrontal cortex and the amygdala and accumbens: Implications for the neuroscience of experiential education from anxiety/fear to pleasure/reward mechanisms. Mecca Brooks UA’22 and Jim Stellar This blog follows up on a very recent blog from our group on … Continued
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and cognitive-emotional integration: Application to Experiential Education Rachel Dolowich, Kathleen Larsen, Jim Stellar This blog continues the topic of our last blog. There we brought thinking from clinical psychology to experiential education, … Continued
Sympathetic Intelligence and the call to action of a Montessori School By Stephanie Ortiz and Jim Stellar Ten years ago, Stephanie and I wrote a blog about her starting a non-profit as an undergraduate at Queens College, CUNY, and then … Continued
Mindfulness and Emotional Regulation in Patients: Lessons Learned for Experiential Education in College Rachel Dolowich UA ‘22, Kathleen Laursen UA ‘21, Jim Stellar Consider a Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) or other patient with a serious fear reaction whose prefrontal cortex … Continued
The Music of Thought and Emotion: clinical interaction in social work Haley Amering UA’20 and Jim Stellar What do you want to do after graduation? I want to do many things, and luckily they can all be tied into practices … Continued
Unfaced Youth: Art, Mind, Brain by Erin Conner UA’24, Antonella Mason, Jim Stellar This blog began when EC worked on an independent study under JS and AM that was centered on a neuroscience paper about how the brain reacts … Continued