Imagine going to a party where you meet a bunch of new people. Which faces will you remember? Which names will you recall? You'll probably remember the woman who made you laugh. The man who accidentally spilled his drink on you. The man who made your face turn red from embarrassment. And the women who disagreed with your political views. Why? Because each of these people stirred your emotions. Emotion and memory are closely related. The part of your brain in charge of emotions is the limbic … [Read more...]
Using AGES To Design Brain Friendly Conferences
Is your conference experience one that hurts your participants' brains or one that helps their brains learn? In other words, is your conference brain-adverse or brain-friendly? Does the experience align with how your attendees' brains work? Or does it work against the brain's natural systems, shutting it down from learning? Two Critical Conference Factors To Consider Two of the most critical conference factors that you need to consider when evaluating whether it's brain-adverse or … [Read more...]
Top Creativity Tips To Think Outside Your Box
Ever been stuck and feel like you can't get out of your box? Maybe even backed into a corner? I have. And I suspect you have too. Routine Thinking Leads To Being Stuck I believe that often we do the same thing so much that we can't see another way of proceeding. Our minds really don't like to think. It defaults to a mental path we've created over and over again. It takes less energy and mental work to follow the same path or process. It's just like driving home from the grocery store. We tend … [Read more...]
Seven Tips To Jump-Start Your Creativity
I consider myself fairly creative. I am not more creative than you. I've just spent a lot of time practicing creativity. And I've surrounded myself with people who constantly encourage me that I can be creative. It helps that my parents, family and teachers always encouraged me that I was creative. Believing that inner voice that "You are creative" is extremely important to success. You Are Creative! I firmly believe that we are all creative! You are a creative person. If you disagree with me, … [Read more...]
Demystifying The Creative Process
Remember kindergarten when we used to play with finger paints, watercolors, crayons, chalk, colored pencils, markers and other fun things. We'd paint with great abandon not worried about what anyone would think about our pictures. And we'd have fun. Our teachers would hang everyone's art on the bulletin board. They would ask us, "Tell us about your picture," without any judgment or verdicts of good and bad. Everyone was considered a creative artist. We were all creative using our … [Read more...]
Are You A Right-Brained Creative?
Where does creativity come from? No, it doesn't come from the strike of lightning bolt or a handful of hallucinogenic drugs. Although the movie Gothic depicting English Romantic poets Mary Shelley and Lord Byron taking drugs on a rooftop in the midst of a thunderstorm might lead you to think so. Dramatic, yes! And far from the truth. (The movie chronicles the summer when Shelley wrote Frankenstein.) Defining Creativity What is creativity? Creativity is a mix of original thinking, ingenuity … [Read more...]
Get On The Brain Train Before It Leaves The Station
Attendees spend about 24 hours physically present in a three-day conference experience. (About eight hours a day, outside of sleep and night activities.) Students who attend school from kindergarten through high school typically spend more than 13,000 hours learning from teachers. 24 hours seem minimal as compared to 13,000 hours. Yet, most conference participants try to learn as much as possible in that 24 hours. Regardless, students and conference attendees' brains are very vulnerable … [Read more...]
Are You Corrupting Your Education Sessions?
Less is more. Too much, too fast, it won't last. That's a favorite adage used by some educators. The underlying concept is that you can present more and faster. But your listeners will simply forget more and faster! Overloading The Mind Organizations and conference planners are often pressured to offer more presentations and content. More, more, more is the customers' cry, not just the lyrics of a disco song. Pushing more content in a fixed time only burdens the mind. It guarantees … [Read more...]
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