About This Course

A short reading course by Richard Hill about the science of curiosity and how this powerful state of mind can be used in therapy.

  • Short quiz after each section of reading – Certificate of completion upon finishing the course.

  • The science behind curiosity;

  • Why curiosity is important for learning and in therapy;

  • The neurochemicals of curiosity; What is the nuntius nuclei and why is it important;

  • How the nuntius nuclei is fundamental to mental wellbeing.

Course curriculum

    1. Welcome to the course

    1. Download The Nuntius Nuclei: A New Neuroscience for Curiosity by Richard Hill

    2. Introduction to the Nauntius Nuclei

    3. Stimulating Curiosity

    4. Stimulating Curiosity Quiz

    5. Curiosity and the Learning brain (a recap)

    6. Curiosity and the Learning brain Quiz

    1. Neurobiology of Curiosity

    2. Neurobiology of Curiosity Quiz

    3. Chemical Balance

    4. Chemical Balance Quiz

    1. Download Your Certificate

Instructor

Chief Education Director Richard Hill

Richard Hill began his professional life in the performing arts and is now a practicing psychotherapist, author, educator, and Clinical Science Director and Managing Editor at the Science of Psychotherapy. Richard returned to intellectual studies at 42 (1996) achieving a B.A. majoring in linguistics, followed by 3 Masters Degrees in Social Ecology, Education, and Brain and Mind Sciences and is now a PhD candidate researching the nature of the person-responsive approach in therapy. His latest book is co-authored with Matthew Dahlitz, The Practitioner’s Guide to the Science of Psychotherapy. Richard enjoyed the good fortune to be mentored by the esteemed Ernest Rossi, PhD who introduced the field of Psychosocial Genomics and is a member of the international research team that studies the impact of therapeutic practice on the genetic level. Richard co-authored The Practitioner’s Guide to Mirroring Hands with Rossi. His main theoretical proposals concern – The Winner-Loser World Theory; the Curiosity Approach: and the Possibility Solution – which are explored in his numerous books and book chapters. Richard is active internationally including his role as Science Director for CIPPS college in Salerno, Italy, and course consultant at the University Fernando Pessoa in Portugal. He is also Patron of the Australian Society of Clinical Hynotherapists.

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