The Essence of Learning

A 3-day workshop

This workshop is about you and your students, about new ways of teaching and about another vision of the impact you can have.

This journey of discovery will explore ways of making students become more intelligent in your presence. It will suggest ways of transmitting the force of life you carry within yourself to inspire others. It will look at ways of establishing a connection of unconditional intensity between you and your learners that will let everything they do in their later lives mirror the faith you have had in them in. This is about another kind of learning.

The aims of this workshop are:

• To convey to teachers more effective teaching practices that take into account the emotional and unconscious dimensions of students thereby insuring faster assimilation and longer retention of knowledge.
• To design environments that are stimulating, but safe and fun, where students can take chances, redefine what they are capable of and raise their expectations of themselves.
• To identify the psychological, philosophical and spiritual forces at work within teachers that have led them to teaching, and harness, co-ordinate and harmonize these.

This introductory Suggestopedia workshop will take the form of fast-moving activities and games that offer you new perspectives, develop the accuracy of your intuition and split-second judgment, and take you to places inside yourself where teachers can always find inner strength and creative resources.

We will explore, and acquire skill in, using games, music, role play, story telling and humour to correspond to the real structure of the human memory. We will see the nuts and bolts of successful classroom management that reassures the subconscious mind. We will look at different learning styles. And, hopefully, we’ll have a lot of fun while we’re at it