Think about it – as we come to the close of 2008, stocks are on the decline, the financial market is in a decline, minerals are on the decline, home values are in a decline, scruples may also be on the decline. But the only thing that is - and can remain to be - on an incline is intelligence. The new millennium is the age of intelligence where we take the information from the last age and apply it to be better people. Are you ready for it?
Buzan® BrainSmart Kids is the newest programme to hit Singapore from the Buzan World designed to enhance our intelligence. Championed by Tony Buzan and based on his bestselling book The Buzan Study Skills Handbook: The shortcut to success in your studies, this camp will equip student participants with the necessary skills to succeed in learning, not just in school but throughout life.
The camp aims to
- equip all participants with Tony Buzan’s Organic Study Technique (BOST™) and utilizing it in a manner that will ensure behavioural change;
- provide participants with the means to take charge of their own studies and not have other people “chase” them for it;
- develop creative thinking and writing skills using the Mind Map;
- enhance Mind Map and memory techniques during field trips;
- bring out the fun during the whole process;
- develop lasting relationships with camp participants
Areas of focus will be
- The Mind Map
- Speed Reading
- Buzan Organic Study Technique (BOST™)
- Winning Memory techniques
- TEFCAS, and
- Meta-Positive Thinking
The Mind Map
Mind Maps are graphic, networked method of storing, organising and prioritising information using key or trigger words and images, each of which will ‘snap on’ specific memories and encourage new thoughts and ideas. Each of the memory triggers in the Mind Map is a key to unlocking facts, ideas and information. Using the full cortical skills of the left & right brain, it is truly the only Whole-Brained tool that will enable you to release the true potential of your amazing mind. The Mind Map, in other words, is a revolutionary way to tap into the infinite resources in your brain. It is not merely a visual aide memoire, it is also a dynamic and organic revision tool, time manager and memory stimulator.
Speed Reading
The skill of speed reading—which is a complete process of knowledge assimilation—will revolutionize your ability to prioritize and retain essential study facts and figures. Speed reading will improve your study capabilities by:
- Increasing your reading speed dramatically
- Improving your levels of concentration and comprehension
- Increasing your understanding of how your brain and eyes work
- Improving your vocabulary and general knowledge
- Saving you time and building your confidence
- Increasing your ability to think faster
Buzan Organic Study Technique (BOST™)
The Buzan Organic Study Technique (BOST™) will show you how to develop strong study habits and overcome fears, stresses and anxieties. Combining all the elements of the Buzan techniques, they will reinforce and multiply your mental skills, introducing you to ways of increasing your efficiency while using it. This will improve the memory of what you have read, as you read it and after you’ve read it. There are two main strategies which will be used to enhance effectiveness of all our participants.
Winning Memory Techniques
A memory system works rather like a super-sized filing cabinet that contains files on every aspect of your entire life. The only way you are going to find information quickly and easily in your cabinet is to make sure that it is well organized and accessible. This means that no matter how obscure the memory you want to retrieve, you know what its category is and can find it easily. In this course, you will learn how the Primacy and Recency Effects impact on your ability to recall, how your mind finds things better through associations and outstanding & uniqueness. Your brain will also likely recall better if it appeals strongly to your senses and your interests. All of these will have a very important effect on your studies and your ultimate success.
TEFCAS & Meta-Positive Thinking
Pioneered by Tony Buzan to help us understand that all learning will start with the unfamiliar, with discomfort, with ‘failure’. But, knowing the process that leads from this to success, we can rest comfortably knowing the positive results of learning. This is what TEFCAS (the acronym for Trial, Event, Feedback, Check, Adjust & Success) will lead participants to. And coupled with a brand new outlook of positive thinking called Meta Positive Thinking, you will be a successful learner and achiever!