Part 1. Physiology & Biology

• The brains capacity for learning
• Left and Right brain theories
• Why the brain prefers complex multiple path learning
• Why the Left hempishere processes faster than the Right
• How stimulation of the extremities can improve the brain
• Variations in brains
• Genetics and the brain
• Your power brain
• Your designer brain
• Symbolic learning and brain response
• How spoken words actually alter the physical brain
• Use it or lose it - your ability to learn
• Why the brain thrives on pattern making and detection
• The non-conscious brain explained
• Subliminal learning, fact or fiction?
• How television effects the learning brain
• Genetics and personality

Part 2. Emotions and Learning

• Why memory is boosted by emotional experiences
• How laughter and humour can boost learning
• The cognitive-emotional link explained
• Your self-convincers - ruled by emotions
• Why emotions are the key to motivation

Part 3. Timetables and Rhythms

• Why learners have two daily learning cycles
• Why the time of day dramatically effects learning
• Why relaxation will energize learning
• Why the brain learning modal switches every 90 minutes
• Why sleep develops complex memories
• Why powerful rhythms affect the brains learning capabilities
• Why the brain needs deep profound rest
• Why the brain prefers pulse learning patterns

Part 4. Strategies and Styles

• Why beliefs affect learning
• How can standing improve your learning
• How learning styles boost motivation and learning
• Why pre-exposure to information speeds learning
• Why flexible emerging goals are optimal for learning
• How activating prior knowledge can boost learning
• How Patterned Learning Maps aid knowledge and understanding
• How multiple roles and status boost learning
• Why Cross-Lateral activity builds better brains
• Why positive teachers must effect learning
• How to use role-plays and games in learning
• Why using the opposite ear boosts learning
• Why the re-framing of questions is vital to the thinking brain
• How manipulation and control inhibit learning
• How the use of powerful images has a major effect on learning
• How to use goal setting to improve learning
• Why congruency is critical to presentation
• Why chaos and confusion can be worthwhile
• Why competition reduces learning
• Why mental practise boosts learning

Part 5. Memory and Recall

• Memory uses multiple strategies
• Complex memory strategies boost recall
• Greater context boosts recall
• Memory linked to order and novelty
• The use of dynamic memory maps
• The use of imagination in recall

Part 6. Intelligence and Learning

• Multiple ways to be intelligent
• Patterns - the key to learning and intelligence
• Colour stimulation improves reading skills
• Can wrong answers improve learning?
• Do questions produce better minds?
• Study skills boost learning
• Brain promotes its own intelligence
• Maps and patterns - the key to learning
• Exercise and its vital role in learning
• Continuous learning enriches brain growth
• Problem solving is essential for developing learning
• Feedback is a vital key to boosting learning and intelligence
• Misbehaviour can stimulate superb learners

Part 7. Nutrition and the Brain

• Proteins have proven to boost thinking and learning
• Brain boosters
• Why excessive carbohydrates are linked to problems
• Why the growing brain is vulnerable to sugar
• Nutrients that can boost learning
• Why water enhances optimal learning
• Why the brain runs better on a nibbling diet
• Why iron intake correlates with brain functions
• Why polyunsaturated fats are best for learning
• How carbohydrates can calm learner tension

Part 8. States of Attention

• Discover how learning fuels awareness states
• Understand why attention spans have internal and external shifts
• Why self expectancy will payoff for positive learners
• Discover what optimal learning states are
• Understand the brains code for discovering self
• Discover what chemicals effect attention span
• Relaxation is the key to learning and memory
• 99% of all learning is non-conscious
• Physiology and learning
• Learner induced helplessness explained and how to overcome it
• Hope and learning

Part 9. Music In Learning

• The positive effects of music on learners
• Why musical ability is linked to hormone levels
• Why can high frequency music boost learners
• Why many types of music enhance the learning state
• Understand why endorphins are triggered by favourite music
• Why music impacts both brain and body
• Which music is best for learning

Part 10. Stress and Threats

• Why failure is linked to subtle threats
• Why stress affects different memory levels
• Why threats minimise best thinking
• Why different kinds of stress produces different results
• Why learner anxiety impairs visual acuity
• Why stress and violence can devastate the brain

Part 11. Pre-natal and Pre-school

• Understanding why cell growth is explosive to young brains
• Why tobacco will permanently damage the prenatal child
• Why prenatal proteins may boost learning ability
• How stressful pregnancies can cause disorders
• The permanent effects of pre-natal malnutrition
• Why Infants are born with pre-learnt languages
• Why early stimulation is critical to development
• Why talking to a baby builds better brains
• Why the infant brain is ready for patterns
• Why memory development starts immediately
• Why a baby’s brain is pre-wired for mathematics
• Why a baby’s brain is pre-wired to learn physics
• Why a child’s personality is predictable at one year of age
• Understand how Infant nutrition can boost intelligence
• Learning disorders are predictable at one year of age
• How to start learning foreign languages at an early age

Part 12. Motivation and Rewards

• Why providing choices is the key to motivation
• How to get into a flow state of consciousness to achieve
• Why rewards destroy creativity
• What are optimal motivating conditions
• Why a reward system will perpetuate low achievers
• What multiple social contexts boost motivation
• Why overdoing praise can backfire on motivation
• Learner conflicts with reward systems
• Rewarded behaviours often are short lived
• Rewards can destroy intrinsic motivation
• How to replace rewards in learning
• Controlling learners can be demotivating
• Is there ever a place for rewards
• School policy can demotivate learners

Part 13. Environment

• Why enriched environments build better brains
• Why the brain prefers a real world environment
• How peripheral surroundings influence learners
• How to achieve the best learning environment
• The relevance of lighting to learning
• The relevance of negative air and learning
• The relevance of noise and learning
• Why the memory of colours is stronger than words
• Visual learning and how to improve it
• Heat, stress and learning
• How certain aromas can boost learning
• The benefits of plants to learning
• Seating and posture and how it effects learning
• Dress standards and learning
• The environments that ignore the learning brain