Resources for Creating & Learning
The Einstein Factor: A Proven New Method for Increasing Your Intelligence
This book presents numerous exercises, developed by Win Wenger, that help to improve memory, intelligence and creativity.
A leader in the Creativity and Accelerated Learning movements, Win has developed literally hundreds of techniques, many of which are based on the Socratic Method, that greatly increase the ability to learn and create.
For more information—and to access hundreds of techniques for free—go to Project Renaissance.
International Alliance for Learning
The International Alliance for Learning is the premier organization for educators, language teachers, corporate trainers and other human performance improvement specialists who use Accelerated Learning techniques in their work.
IAL sponsors a bimonthly newsletter, change projects, research, networking opportunities, and a Trainers' Certification program in Accelerated Learning. It also sponsors a great conference in January every year that brings together teachers and trainers from around the world.
Soundtracks for Learning: Using Music in the Classroom by Chris Brewer
This wonderful new book (which I edited) gives teachers step-by-step directions for how to use music in the classroom to increase their students' creativity and ability to learn.
Although it is targeted at a school audience, there are numerous principles, tools and techniques here that will increase the creativity, success and joy of learning in people of all ages.
Smart Moves: Why Learning Is Not All in Your Head
In this fascinating book, neurophysiologist Dr. Carla Hannaford explains how the brain learns and why movement plays a critical role in the process. Her findings have profound ramifications for children and adults alike who seek to overcome learning challenges and increase their ability to learn for a lifetime.
Among Dr. Hannaford's suggestions for increasing the ability to learn are a series of physical exercises that help to coordinate both sides of the brain. Collectively called BrainGym, these come from the work of Dr. Paul Dennison and Gail E. Dennison.
Today there are thousands of trainers and practitioners (including teachers, parents and children) of BrainGym worldwide.
When Listening Comes Alive: A Guide to Effective Learning and Communication
In this fascinating book, Paul Madaule describes his struggles with dyslexia as a youngster growing up in France. Deemed slow and lazy by parents and teachers alike, he was unable to learn no matter how much effort he made. The result was extremely low self-esteem and a life that was going nowhere as a high school dropout.
Thanks to a chance meeting with the brilliant French doctor, Alfred Tomatis, Madaule's life was transformed. Today he is founder and director of the Listening Centres (located in Toronto, Ontario, and Montreal, Quebec), where he has, in turn, helped to transform the lives of thousands of children and adults with learning challenges.
The key to this process—and Dr. Tomatis' great gift to the world—is a revolutionary understanding of the critical role that the human ear plays in learning, communication and human performance.
For more information about Madaule's work, go to The Listening Centre.
For more information about Dr. Tomatis, go to The Tomatis Method.
And to read Dr. Tomatis's own fascinating book about his work, go to The Conscious Ear: My Life of Transformation Through Listening