S3 Ep 24: How Art (Even Doodling!) Supports Your Child's Development

Raising Good Humans

Voicing Change Media

Education, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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How can doodling and daydreaming - when your child might otherwise be paying attention - be a good thing? How does art support our child's health? What skills do our kids acquire in art class that help them later in life? This week, join me in conversation with Susan Magsamen, author of Your Brain On Art. She serves as executive director of the International Arts + Mind Lab, part of the Brain Science Institute at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She also co-directs the Aspen Institute's NeuroArts BluePrint. Sponsored by KiwiCo: Get 50% off your first month on ANY crate line at kiwico.com/HUMANS. Fast Growing Trees: Want lemons in your backyard? Start here. Go to FastGrowingTrees.com/HUMANS to get 15% OFF your entire order. Ready Set Food: Visit readysetfood.com and use code HUMAN at checkout for 10% off your purchase! Produced by Dear Media This episode may contain paid endorsements and advertisements for products and services. Individuals on the show may have a direct, or indirect financial interest in products, or services referred to in this episode. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a deer media production.
0:05.0	Welcome to Raising Good Humans Podcast.
0:10.0	I'm Dr. Alisa Pressman and today's episode is with Susan Magsammon, founder and executive
0:16.1	director of the International Arts and Mind Lab at the Center for Applied Neuroesthetics
0:22.6	at Johns Hopkins University and she's the co-director of Neuro Arts Blueprint.
0:28.8	She's really at the intersection of science and the arts and has been for decades, incorporating
0:34.8	academic research and other ways of knowing to inform the design and implementation of
0:40.0	arts-based programs and products that can improve all of our well-being and health.
0:47.4	And we're having a conversation about what it means to have an art and aesthetic mindset,
0:55.0	how we can engage in this way of being in the world and how it really does support our
1:01.6	capacity to meet the world with greater resilience.
1:05.9	This is when really cool things that have been intuitive for so long end up being validated
1:13.4	by brain science.
1:14.8	It really makes me so happy.
1:17.6	It really just gets me super excited.
1:20.6	She also is the co-author of the book, Your Brain on Art.
1:25.4	In this conversation, she's expanding what your view of art may be and how we can incorporate
1:33.3	in these informal and formal ways to our day-to-day experiences for supporting thriving minds.
1:42.0	If you enjoy this episode, please don't hesitate to write a little review and give it a five-star
1:48.0	rating.
1:49.0	That really, really helps me get this podcast spread out into the world.
1:54.0	And of course, you can DM me with questions on at Raising Good Humans Podcast on Instagram
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