I like to share books with others, especially books that have had a big impact on my life. I know that not all (if any) may appeal to you and that they may not even be the sort of book you would read. What I am interested in is the type of books you [...]

In a leadership meeting last week we had an unannounced guest speaker. In these circumstances you don’t know what you are going to get! It was Denise Wilcowski the head of the Territory’s Association of Educational School Leaders.

I used to be a ’shocker’. I was the immature ratbag that couldn’t control himself when in a meeting or presentation that was mind numbingly BORING.

Dr. Edward De Bono devised a technique, or thinking tool, to aid group discussion and individual thinking. This technique allows for groups of people to think together more effectively.
The premise of the method is that that a human being thinks in a few distinct ways. Often in meetings we defer to arguing and point scoring, [...]

What could rock climbing possibly offer someone like me? That was the question I asked just before hitting the ‘close’ button on the video you are about to watch. Luckily I decided to watch the first minute, as it turned out to be inspirational. Matthew Childs shares nine pointers for rock climbing. These handy [...]

Photoreading is a technique used to absorb information via the subconscious mind. Unlike traditional reading, information does not pass directly through the conscious mind. Photoreading kind of takes a shortcut and enables you to take a mental snapshot of the text via your subconscious mind which helps you retain information longer than usual.
Photoreading is based on [...]

Since I first came to learn about the Learning State (or the accelerated learning state or Hakalau) several parts of my life have ‘grown’, or improved.
I first came across the learning state when studying for my NLP Practitioners course. By allowing our peripheral vision to expand beyond our normal boundaries we can process/read/learn directly with [...]

Here is a second acrostic poem written by Anggi, a student Teacher from Bandung, Indonesia. As you can see it is written about the Treasuring Education Conference.
T : There was a lot of excellent presenters
R : Really,,,really,,,really,,,interesting
E : Empowering people
A : Add my knowledge
S : Sharing experience in teaching and everything
U : Unforgettable moment
R [...]

Recent studies have shown that by using mnemonics you can greatly improve your memory. The reason why mnemonics is so effective is because it uses three underlying basic thought processes i.e. Imagination, location, and association. When these three processes are combined they can greatly improve a person’s memory.
When you learn to use these three powerful [...]

Wouldn’t it be nice to just look at a page and never forget what was on there? What if you could never again forget a friend’s birthday? The bad news is, not everyone has a photographic memory, otherwise known as eidetic memory. Only a few actually have it, the rest rely on mnemonic devices. The [...]