“Learning styles” also known as our “representational systems” determine how we learn. Some of us take in more information through our eyes, we call them “Visual” while others are predominately “Kinesthetic.” Kinesthetic learners consume information more easily through physical exercises and need to wriggle or move to improve retention.
Less of our population is auditory. Auditory learners need to hear information delivered in entertaining ways and variable tones. Though due to the digital age, more children need to “think” and “process thoughts” and so are becoming “Auditory digital.”
This proven science, taught at level one NLP Practitioner classes is key to our ability to learn, yet it is seldom taught to our teachers. This omission is failing our school children.
Confucius once said, “Tell me and I will forget. Show me and I may remember. Involve me and I will understand.” It makes sense as to why so many of our children believe they are not intelligent. They are rarely taught to understand, instead, they are taught to listen, read and repeat.
If you want to know where you’re headed, look in the direction you’re facing. If you want to know why you’re going there, look no further than your values.
Healing grief is not a simple process. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross wrote extensively about the “5 Stages of Grief,” yet little is written about “healing grief.” In five years I lost four of the closest people to me: my best friend; my father; my mother; and recently my older sister Erika (no, it wasn’t easy). I realised how little is written about healing grief. Not much is offered to help people to get through their grief. That is why I decided to write this article.