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Are you being left behind in learning new
information? Does your learning suffer from your parents' drama, your partner's
demands or your boss's moods? Do you want to untangle your life?
Do you want to Accelerate Learning?
If you do not regularly increase, update and use your
knowledge, you risk being left behind by your peers who do. Accelerated
learning, knowledge management
and expert modeling are important
life skills - systemic education
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that are rarely taught at school or even university.
Your continued survival, wellbeing and success may require that
you learn and use not only intellectual skills, but emotional and relationship
skills. Some key skills for accelerated learning are:
- learn HOW to learn comfortably and efficiently
- learn HOW to organize information quickly
- learn HOW to use information effectively
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For four years Joe was a mediocre
student and yet he placed second in a class of 45 in his final examinations
... He said that he had attended sessions of your "accelerated learning" a
few days before the exams and that you coached him organize years of
information using something that sounds like hypnosis ... I think that this
should be called cheating.
From a University Professor, Canada |
There are easier ways to learn than most people experience
in schools and university. Some teachers seem to transform the natural curiosity of children
into boring repetition of irrelevant data. Many bored children learn how to
dissociate - they learn to sleep with their eyes open.
In many Eastern cultures, social skills, communication and
relationship skills are considered more important than information. In
the West, credentials are more important and
emotional maturity and
emotional intelligence may be ignored
or left to chance. Some key skills of emotional intelligence are:
- learn HOW to recognize and appreciate emotions
- learn HOW to find the causes and messages of emotions
- learn HOW to express and communicate emotions appropriately
Failure to use
knowledge management and
emotional management skills may result in lower performance, reduced prospects at
work and a risk of being labeled as learning disabled - or just slow.
- learn HOW to recognize and appreciate people
- learn HOW to appropriately behave in different relationships
- learn HOW to recognize transferences and relationship types
If you fail to develop your relationship skills, you risk a
lowered acceptance by other people, and problems building
and enjoying friendship, teamwork, partnership and parenthood.
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To coaches & counselors: Be honest.
Only offer what you are SURE you can deliver.
Discuss techniques
before using them and test whether your clients get what you promised! |
Some people prefer to
avoid intellectual, emotional or relationship intelligence. The
reasons often involve identity loss,
relationship bonds - resulting from
emotional incest and other
relationship experiences. We coach people to build their intellectual,
emotional and relationship excellence and resolve relationship and
emotional blocks to happiness.
Learning Disabilities
. Emotional Intelligence
Systemic Coaching in Education
It's not too late to learn - if you can
answer "Yes" to these questions:
- Do you accept responsibility for your own
learning?
- Do you want assimilate new information quickly
and easily?
- Do you want to apply your knowledge in the
real world?
Most people accept the learning styles of their parents and
teachers without question, and a few people develop their own learning styles.
Does your learning style help you assimilate and use new information? We can help
you find, refine and use what is most effective for you; and coach you to design
and fine tune your own accelerated learning.
Accelerated Learning Strategies
Accelerated Learning includes strategies for improving learning.
Some strategies have been developed as a result of research into how people learn.
Effective accelerated learning programs:
- are appropriate, relevant and demanding
- fit students emotional and intellectual ages
- develop students' ability to plan their
learning
- develop students' ability to deal with relationships
- help students' develop intellectually and
emotionally
- build problem solving skills in authentic applications
- focus on personal experiences and real world concerns
Systemic Education
. Knowledge
Management . Expert Modeling
Systemic Accelerated Learning
We tailor our systemic coaching to each client
and student, and we explore how to develop perhaps-unique accelerated learning
strategies appropriate for your personal goals. What accelerates your learning
may not be optimal for your friend, partner or student. We can train you to
explore and generate accelerated learning
strategies that fit your clients and students.
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Martyn, I was a demonstration
subject during your workshop on accelerated learning, and I chose organizing
a parade in my town as a project. I was later too busy to organize the parade
and when I met the town council I felt that I had let them down. I was
shocked as I stood up and gave the council members almost all the details
that they needed. I was commended for my effort - but those compliments
should go to you! Canada |
Accelerated Learning for Children with Emotional Problems
We support children teenagers and young adults with suspected
relationship or emotional problems by 1. coaching
their parents, 2. coaching their teachers, and 3.
coaching the children or teenagers themselves. Our systemic
coaching helps provide appropriate social-emotional support for parents,
teachers and children, and ways to prevent, detect, evaluate and change
childhood relationship and emotional problems, and to accelerate learning.
Other Accelerated Learning Possibilities
While hypnosis, suggestions,
relaxation, music etc may benefit your learning, the effects are
likely to be short term. Most blocks to efficient learning originate
in uncomfortable emotions, limiting beliefs
and relationship entanglements. If your goal is to pass an
examination and then forget everything, these approaches may be OK.
Hypnosis , Suggestion & Metaphors
Many books and CDs claim to help you improve
your learning, often by "overcoming your beliefs" with
"more powerful ideas". It sounds like good
marketing to us, but some of it may work for you.
Speed Reading
Speed reading comprehension tests on people who have attended
popular speed reading workshops have not shown that the wondrous claims
made for this modality are valid.
Relaxation Response
When you are relaxed, you are more likely to concentrate
on whatever is being taught, especially if it is presented in interesting
ways. If you are anxious or worried about something, you may remember
your fears better than the material that you study.
Laughter & Fun
Why not make learning fun? Look for funny sides of the
material you want to remember. Maybe imagine clowns juggling with
the data or imagine what your favorite comedian might say about it.
Perhaps you can make funny anagrams of the first letters of key
information.
Musical Learning
Does listening to music help you study? Not me - although
some sellers of recorded music claim that their music can help you learn.
Dr Lozanov, a pioneer of accelerated learning,
claimed that Baroque music helps you remember what you study.
Sleep Learning
Sleep learning seems more likely to
disturb your sleep and cause strange dreams rather than improve your
rest. Even small amounts of sleep deprivation can negatively affect your
study. Instead of learning, tired people may drift into inattention, daydreams,
impaired memory and shortened attention span.
Practice & Review
How you review and use your memorized knowledge is
a key part of learning. A review schedule can make a tremendous
difference to your retention of knowledge, rather than trying to
cram all review into the last day before an interview or
examination.
Left and Right Brains
Some psychologists insist that each side of your
brain has a different function. The left side is supposed to deal
with language, numbers and logic, while the right side may deal
with music, visual impressions and patterns. Even if true, we do not find this
particularly useful.
Numbers
Some people have trouble remembering numbers and equations.
This may be due to a too-early introduction to
mathematics, which resulted in remembering frustration rather
than remembering relationships between quantities. This can result in
unpleasant feelings when you consider science problems or mathematical
equations. Systemic coaching can dissolve unpleasant associations.
Food for Thought
Some dietary
supplements claim to boost brain power and memory, although it may seem
that every new book has different and even contradictory
recommendations. As many processed foods seem to lack nutritional
ingredients, some food supplements may make sense. But which ones?
Stress & Memory
Your stress can help or hinder
your study and recall. Although you can use many excellent
relaxation techniques both ancient and modern, perhaps choose a low-stress
learning place where you can make mistakes and still expect success.
Drugs & Memory: State Dependent Learning
The side-effects
of some prescription & recreational drugs include drowsiness,
disorientation and altered states of consciousness that do not support
long-term memory. While coffee may raise blood
pressure and alertness, and nicotine may help stabilize emotions for a short
time, both are addictive and neither may be available during important exams or
interviews.
Summary
My summary - filter everything you want to learn with a healthy skepticism
and test new information for accuracy, relevance and consequences. This will
increase your interest in the material and increase the likelihood that you remember
the chosen
information.
Do you want to
benefit from our experience?
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