About
Right Brain Genius
Unlock the right side of your brain for health and wellbeing
Most people in society are left brain dominant. Unfortunately that's just the way society is. It's also the way the education system is. Your left brain is the analytical, logical, verbal side of your brain. It is also where your stress is stored.
Your right brain however is the creative, intuitive, visual side of the brain. It is the peaceful side of our brain.
By learning to use the right side of your brain in balance with the left, you discover a tool to turn off stress, improve sleep, and enhance confidence plus more.
Helen first taught Right Brain Genius for fifteen years in Cairns, Brisbane and then the Sunshine Coast. She has presented at every library on the Sunshine Coast twice and at many other private and public events. After teaching for so long and to so many people Helen needed a life change and so began driving buses in Brisbane. Now after driving buses for the last seven years Helen has come to realise her passion to teach is undeniably important for the world right now.
The creative skill Right Brain Genius uses to teach people to unlock the right side of their brain is the skill of how to draw. “I love teaching this skill because it is the basis for all creativity and most adults don’t believe they can do it when I know 100% they can. So long as a person can draw a circle, a square and a triangle, they can draw. Learning to draw should really be called, learning how to see because you begin to see so much differently when you start doing it with your right brain instead of your left”.
Most people stop drawing at an early age because they believe they have no talent. Unfortunately it is usually a teacher or peer who tells them they are no good at it that builds a wall far too high for them to get over.
Right Brain Genius is an extraordinary training course devoted to developing human potential through unlocking your creative right brain.
Meet the facilitator
Helen Joy
For a very long time, Helen wanted to learn how to draw and become an artist so, while living in Cairns, married and with two small children, she enrolled in a beginner’s drawing course. Unfortunately, that course was cancelled due to ‘unpopular demand’. She felt beside herself. She was so ready to start exploring her creativity. But Helen is not one to give up so easily and so off she went to the local library.
Feeling driven, she found her way to the ‘art book’ section. As she walked along the isle, running her hand gently along the books, a book seemed to just jump out at her. It was as if someone was standing in the isle behind and pushed the book through to her.
That book was Betty Edwards, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. Helen borrowed that book over about a three-month period and not only taught herself to draw but also learned a lot about her brain and the importance of using the two sides of our brain together in ‘balance’.
Over the years that followed, Helen continued exploring her newfound inner creative genius that led her to volunteer in her daughter’s art class teaching the kids the skills she had learned from the book. One day the teacher was giving a lesson on how to draw a bird. She got them to draw a circle for a head, an oval for a body, a triangle for a beak and so on. Helen said to the teacher, “That is a very left brained way to draw a bird”. The teacher didn’t understand and so Helen explained, “That is a symbol for a bird, symbols are stored in the left side of the brain. Are you going to teach the kids how to draw that bird out there in the tree?” No chance, the teacher only knew what the textbook was giving her. So, over the next couple of months, Helen taught 60 grade 6 students how to tap into the right side of their brains.
It was when some of the parents started asking if she could teach them to draw as well that Helen got excited about the possibility of making a career out of this. Eager to get her courses off the ground, Helen sought permission from Betty Edwards to teach what she had learnt from her book.
Helen is now a successful coach and published author of ‘Coffee Stains for Balanced Brains’ and looks forward to teaching her Right Brain Genius Course to thousands of more students.