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OCTOBER 7, 2019

We will be doing early morning sessions to engage participants in some mindful moment and movement exercises. I’m going to share different techniques for weaving mindful moment and exercises into your workday. It helps center and refocus our brains which is important for learning. This technique is simple.

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MARCH 13, 2018

Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? This is the focus of a session called “ The Big Bang Theory: Creative Facilitation and Training Techniques, ” that I’m co-facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference with Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. What is Brainstorming? .

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FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Alternately, you may feel so good about it and say my job is done. Here are six tips that will help you deliver highly successful technology training workshops by using effective evaluation techniques. Bear in mind that the model isn’t practical in all situations. Use Learning Theory. Documentation.

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JUNE 27, 2016

It was like a reboot for my brain, but I found it really difficult to do. Once you know the offenders, there are blocking apps, like Freedom or others that target specific apps that you can use to take a tech mini-detox. But here’s a technique that I found really helpful when you need to use your mobile as a telephone.

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JANUARY 27, 2014

Sometimes you don’t have the ability to do a survey before, especially if it is an online webinar or a conference session. There are alternative ways to do research. When participants move, oxygen to the brain increases, thereby enhancing both learning and memory. Within the modules, I break it down in 15 minute blocks.

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APRIL 8, 2015

Bringing your brain to what you are doing. It reminds of the “Mindful Conversation” exercise described in “ Search Inside Yourself ,” yet another way to practice mindfulness but not just within yourself, but with others. We worked with a partner and had to alternate counting to three. Flexibility.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

How long can you pay attention when working online before your mind wanders? According to the Statistic Brain site list of attention span stats , in 2000 we had a 12 second attention span compared with an 8 second attention in 2013. What’s making our human brains like those of gold fish? Photo by BirgerKing.

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