You will love watching yourself and those around you using their preferred modality, combined intelligences and favored cognitive patterns. You will delight in watching yourself and others prepare to be successful learners. You will create dynamic dialogues with people about how they learn. You’ll find yourself inventing games, making intriging associations and celebrating at every opportunity.

Basic tips:

  1. Always be positive about learning
  2. Create personal intention; “I will…”
  3. Foster and reify empowering beliefs; “I can do…”
  4. Relate learning to cherished values
  5. Interact! create agreements and accountability
  6. Be outrageous! weirder is the more remembered
  7. Make it fun... and funny
  8. Make it serve others: give it away.

Tips for teachers

  1. Watch how students get ready to receive
  2. Encourage individualized rituals of preparation
  3. Create dynamic dialogues about use of the senses
  4. Encourage humorous games to make associations
  5. Integrate new information with body movement.

Tips for Parents

  1. Observe your child carefully and with total acceptance
  2. Reflect back to them acts that produce good results
  3. Use questions way more than statements
  4. Praise curiosity and unusual approaches to learning
  5. Acknowledge creative and critical thinking.

Tips for Seniors

  1. Ask positive questions of others (best vacation, meal etc)
  2. Tell inspiring stories; use lots of specific detail
  3. Break your patterns; take the wildest risks you can
  4. Always acknowledge what you DO remember
  5. Be curious about how you and others recall
  6. Integrate movement, music and art!

Tips for Supervisors and Managers

  1. Make continuous learning the norm
  2. Use various methods: in house, public & distance learning
  3. Make everyone a trainer of their skills and talents
  4. Create profound rituals of letting go of the past
  5. Schedule regular celebrations for lessons learned