following brain trauma, and consideration of the possible bene- fits of auditory guidance in senior healthcare. A special treat was a virtual-ear-reality environment allowing one to design a self-guided Hemi-Sync experience through all Focus levels. Individual PREP sessions were also available. Bodywork and personal fitness sessions, together with free time for just relaxing (swimming, playing volleyball, walking, or running), struck a balance between the inner and outer. During the Tape Day Intensive, everyone experienced selected tape exercises from the LIFESPAN 2000 program. The finale was a Celebration of Change to inaugurate the first year of the Professional Membership’s second decade. An enthusiastic group sing-along followed an excellent evening of live music by Mark Certo and Clinton Brown. From the foundation of the unique energy generated by the seminar, members departed with many plans in the formative stages—plans to develop the myriad ways in which the Hemi- Sync technology can be integrated into the cycles of life to enable all to thrive instead of merely survive. What @ will these plans birth in 1994? HEMI-SYNC IN SUPPORT OF A CONFLICT-MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP by James Akenhead, EdD Asa licensed professional counselor, James Akenhead has been a public- and private-sector organizational consultant for fifteen years. A career educator for thirty years, with twenty-four years of service as a school superintendent, he holds five degrees and has published numer-
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‘ous articles on leadership, team building, management, and human relations. Dr. Akenhead has served as coordinator of a graduate adminis- tration degree program and has taught graduate courses in administra- tion and counseling for eighteen years. Jim is presently director of The Ohio Network: Training and Assistance for Schools and Communities. This paper discusses the application of Hemi-Sync technology, in four different formats, to enhance the instructional environment during the delivery of a conflict-management workshop for administrators. An overview of workshop content objectives is presented, as are the results of a basic statistical analysis of participants’ perceptions, ‘Asa career educator and consultant for more than thirty years, I am continually interested in methods to enhance instruction in professional workshops, seminars, and presentations. After facili- tating several hundred workshops, I consider anything that helps tired and sometimes burned-out people get more out of presenta- tions. Ways of improving content presentation, adding humor, and varying instructional techniques and processes all receive atten- tion. Last summer I experimented with yet another dimension to aid workshop participants in getting the most for their time and effort. This project involved the use of Hemi-Sync for enhancing the delivery ofa workshop on conflict management. Workshop Objectives The workshop objectives were threefold. Clearly, a primary
focus was to provide the participants—a group of school adminis- trators—with the skills and understanding necessary to make them better conflict managers. In addition, I wanted to use the Hemi- Sync technology to enhance the workshop learning environment and to give the administrators a tool they could use to maintain a “centered” state in which they would be able to deal more effective- ly with conflict situations (in much the same way that an athlete's personal state contributes to performance). Content ‘The curriculum for the conflict-management phase of the work- shop included a personality style analysis of each participant and a comparison of each participant's style with a hypothetical style pro- file deemed to be highly productive in managing conflict situa- tions. Following the style analysis, participants were given lectures, structured activities, and simulations that acquainted them with the nature of conflict and methods for conflict resolution. Hemi-Sync Technology At the beginning of the workshop, participants were told that Hemi-Sync would be used to enrich the workshop environment and to provide them with some personal resources that could be helpful to them in actual conflict situations. Technical aspects were explained briefly. The explanation included information on brain- wave technology, including the discovery and development of the Frequency Following Response and its capacity to support produc- tive brain-wave patterns. Concentration