In this trademark, entertaining, engaging, and practical session, we’ll look at the latest research in neuroscience and cognitive neuroscience to explore how your brain works, how it learns, creates memories, and how we can join forces with it to increase our abilities to focus, maintain our cognitive energy and so much more.

Session Highlights:  

• See what learning is from the inside out and how your brain makes it all happen
• Uncover the ways you're often working against your brain and practices you can do to work with it
• Activate your gateway to learning, focus , and explore the ways you can join forces with your brain to do so
• Participate in experiments and practices which will start you on the path to cultivating the skills to be a more strategic and intentional learner and human.    

Designing learning for others can be a big challenge.  How do you know what's going to stick? How to engage the person doing it? How to keep them on task and on their way to achieving the skills and knowledge they need? 

Science has given us a plethora of knowledge, methods and techniques to help us, help our learners and that's exactly what we'll explore here. 

Session Highlights: 

• How not to overwhelm the brain of your learners and be methodical with your content 
• The best way to design for building on existing knowledge versus creating new knowledge
• How to design to help keep your learners focused. 
• 3 key learning methods and theories and how to use them most effectively

Learning is hard, but unlearning and then relearning could quite possibly be harder, if that is, you don’t know how to use your brain to make it easier!  I vote we make it easier. 

Session Highlights:

• Understand the strengths and weaknesses of your memories and existing knowledge and how to use that to your learning advantage 
• Discover why focus and attention are your best allies for change and how you can direct both to help you and others learn
• How to navigate stress and emotional responses, because let’s face it, change can be uncomfortable, but we can ease that process

It’s not that we don’t know how to learn, it’s one of the things the brain is literally designed to do! But there are so many ways in which we can improve that process, cause let’s face it no one ever really taught us HOW to do it.  

Session Highlights: 

• Why breaks and rest are critical to the learning process and the optimal times to do it
• What you can do to increase your ability to focus, and how to train and trigger your brain to do so
• How to create a rough map of your learning journey with key strategies to keep you motivated and ontrack
• How to effectively monitor your learning as you're doing it, because no one wants to get to the end and remember nothing!