Theodore Dimon Director of The Dimon Institute; adjunct assistant professor, Columbia Teachers College. Theodore (Ted) Dimon is the founder and director of The Dimon Institute and an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia Teachers College. Dimon’s pioneering work covers the study of the human mental and physical ‘operating system’ as a holistic entity and how it works in activity. Based on a multi-disciplinary approach that includes work in neuroscience, anatomy, evolution, physiology, psychology, philosophy and mindfulness, Dimon’s work provides a new approach to human functioning and behavior leading to foundational principles applicable in the fields of health, education, and child development. Theodore Dimon received both masters and doctorate degrees in education from Harvard University and is an internationally renowned teacher of mind/body disciplines. He has written seven books including Anatomy of the Moving Body; The Body in Motion; Your Body, Your Voice; The Elements of Skill; The Undivided Self, A New Model of Man’s Conscious Development, and Neurodynamics: The Art of Mindfulness in Action. He lectures internationally and teaches at The Dimon Institute and Columbia Teachers College. Participant In: Human and Nonhuman Minds: Continuities and Discontinuities Saturday, May 16, 2015 2:30-4:30 pm Past Event Watch the video » When Darwin wrote The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, published in 1872, the scientific community was still pondering the question: Do other animals think? The subsequent prodigious scientific study of animal cognition and behavior has answered this question with an emphatic “yes”! The question now has advanced to: To what degree do… read more »
Human and Nonhuman Minds: Continuities and Discontinuities Saturday, May 16, 2015 2:30-4:30 pm Past Event Watch the video » When Darwin wrote The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, published in 1872, the scientific community was still pondering the question: Do other animals think? The subsequent prodigious scientific study of animal cognition and behavior has answered this question with an emphatic “yes”! The question now has advanced to: To what degree do… read more »