"The Matrix Model is a sensible, well thought-out
strategy for addressing one of the most complex
maladies of the human condition...
aberrant behavior."

Ron Davis, Founder
Davis Dyslexia Association International

Many "challenging children do not benefit from traditional therapy and medication alone, when working to address essential developmental needs, is not a cure. A new approach is needed. It is called The Matrix Model. The Matrix Model provides an innovative, creative and well-researched method of working with children who exhibit neurological dysfunction, psychiatric disorders, or atypical behaviors; children who otherwise have a high probability of being incarcerated or institutionalized.

Four elements comprise The Matrix Model: Attachment Disorder, Dyslexia, Multiple Intelligences and The Feldenkrais Method. They are used in ways that are specific to each child's unique problems. It is within these four elements of learning that new options originate and a child takes form and develops.

"It's gratifying to be reminded that one's work...
can actually have Universal implications...Linda Flanders
does an admirable job of illustrating that life and art are
not mutually exclusive and that movies....
are really the stories of our lives."

Ernest Thompson
Academy Award winning writer of
"On Golden Pond"

"Act it and you will become it!" You can create the life you really want. Hollywood Endings is about self-awareness, learning and recovery. It's for anyone who has ever wanted or dreamed of having a Hollywood Ending. It is for those of us who never had a role model to show how it's done. It celebrates the wonder and excitement of the movies, urges us to see movies once to be entertained, and then return to see them again to learn from them. We all deserve a Hollywood ending. This book uses the movies to show you how to do it.


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"Although research has shown film to be the premiere emotion generator, research has also shown that books can explain and explore complex issues more effectively than can films. In essence, film arouses and print elaborates. A wedding of film self-help books can offer the best of both media. This is what the field of cinema therapy has to offer a cinema-savvy society."

Stuart Fischoff, Ph.D
Emeritus Professor of Media Psychology
California State University, Los Angeles
Director of Media Psychology Research Institute

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Both books can be ordered from Taproot, Inc.
or directly from the publisher: Llumina Press
www.llumina.com

A Matrix Model can also be ordered from Amazon.com
Hollywood Endings can be ordered from Powells.com

A Matrix Model: $10.95
Hollywood Endings: $11.95

plus shipping and handling

Dr. Stanley Greenspan
www.stanleygreenspan.com

*Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Behavioral Sciences, and pediatrics at George Washington University Medical School.
Practicing child psychiatrist.
*Supervising Child Psychoanalyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute
*Chairman of the Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders.
*A founder and former president of Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families
*Former director of the National Institute of Mental Health's Clinical Infant Development Program and Mental Health Study Center.
*Recipient of numerous national awards including the American Psychiatric Associations highest award for child psychiatry research

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Dr. Howard Gardner
www.gse.harvard.edu

Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor in Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He also holds positions as Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, Adjunct Professor of Neurology at the Boston University School of Medicine, and Chair of the Steering Committee of Project Zero. Among numerous honors, Gardner received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1981. He has been awarded twenty honorary degrees--including degrees from Princeton University, McGill University and Tel Aviv University on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the state of Israel. In 1990, he was the first American to receive the University of Louisville's Grawemeyer Award in education. In 2000 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.

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The Davis program
www.dyslexia.com

The Davis approach is not based on tutoring or drill, but actually resolves the root causes of problems experienced by individuals with language-based learning difficulties. The Davis program is explained in detail in the book, The Gift of Dyslexia.

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The Feldenkrais Guild
www.feldenkrais.com

The Feldenkrais Guild was established by Moshe Feldenkrais, D.Sc., in 1977. The Feldenkrais Method of Somatic Education is a way of "learning how to learn." It is self-learning at it's finest, available to all and can be utilized in a multitude of ways; from getting out of pain, to becoming a better athlete, to improving a present skill, mastering a new one or learning how to manifest your unavowed dreams.
Feldenkrais taught "how to make the impossible, possible."

The new book: The Mind and The Brain by Dr. Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley now explains the latest scientific research from UCLA on "neuroplasticity", proving why Feldenkrais's method works.

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KCI The Anti-Meth Site
http://www.kci.org/

Methamphetamine Drug Prevention and Education - Resources for Teachers.

This web site was developed in conjunction with a grant to develop and implement a drug education program that assists third and fourth grade teachers in presenting an accurate portrayal of the dangers associated with the manufacture, distribution and use of Methamphetamine.

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Birgit Wolz
www.cinematherapy.com

Birgit Wolz has worked as a psychotherapist, hypnotherapist and grief counselor with individuals, couples and groups since 1991. Her practice is based in Oakland, CA.

More recently she started facilitating cinema therapy groups for personal and spiritual growth. The symbolic process of movies in combination with supportive exchange between group members is used to help group members through life's changes.

Information about her therapy practice is available at bwolz.com and she can be contacted at bwolz@earthlink.net. Birgit has a brand new cinematherapy book out now:
E-motion Picture Magic

Available on Amazon.com