Michael Mendizza

Michael Mendizza has been an educational and documentary filmmaker for the past 25 years and is founder of Touch The Future, a nonprofit learning design center in California (www.ttfuture.org). He has done extensive research on what athletes call the zone, researchers call flow, and children call play. By studying the lives of peak performers, Michael discovered that excellence, at any age or in any field, is "state specific," which he explains in his talks. He is coauthor, with Joseph Chilton Pearce, of Magical Parent-Magical Child: The Optimum Learning Relationship, which applies the basic principles of "state specific learning" or "being in the zone" to parenting and education.

CDs/DVDs/Books Available:

Children and Sports--When and How?

The Next Frontier in Education

Seven Principles for Optimum Learning Performance and Well-Being