The Synergetics of Student Success

Room: Columbus A&B

presented by Lorne Young, Director of CAS, Upper Canada College

The Synergetics of Student Success workshop integrates the most ancient science from the East with the most recent science from the West. This synergy creates a system of innovative, realistic and practical techniques and strategies that teachers can employ in their classes to help our students achieve success both inside and outside of the classroom. These strategies improve attention and focus, transform stress, positively impact academic achievement and lead the way to the development of character, leadership, integrity and compassion. Research on students in all grade levels has shown significant and measurable improvement in these areas. Teachers and students describe this system as "exciting, life-changing, fun, transformative". In this workshop participants will be actively engaged in the practice of this system and be given the opportunity to join the expanding SyRF (Synergetic Redesigning of Fitness) Systems Research team.

Lorne Young, Director of CAS, Upper Canada College
Lorne Young (B.S.; B.Ed.; D.Ac.) has been teaching Western Science and studying Eastern Science since the mid 1970's and has been researching the practical application of the synergy between these two paradigms for the past decade. A program of the philosophy, techniques and strategies arising from this synergy is the subject of his most recent book, SyRF Systems, The Synergetic Redesigning of Fitness, and is energizing students and teachers with its insights and measurable results in the areas of academics, athletics and the building of character, including leadership, integrity and compassion. Lorne has also written a teachers' guide to IB Environmental Systems and presently he is an international speaker, IB teacher training workshop leader for biology, environmental systems and CAS, an IB senior examiner, IB teacher of biology and environmental systems and the Director of CAS at Upper Canada College in Toronto.