Keep Your Brain Alive!
Course Description
In this six-week course, you will learn a variety of memory systems and strategies that will help you form new neural connections to get your brains fit, fast, and focused. The creative tools and strategies taught in this program are challenging yet fun, and the instructor draws from the latest neuroscience research to broaden students’ understanding of how the brain works to form, retain, and retrieve information. As they master the art and science of remembering, students will discover that their personal, professional, academic, and social lives will be greatly enhanced.
Build Your Memory Skills
- Recall information quickly.
- Learn more in less time.
- Make presentations, speeches, and toasts without notes.
- Learn facts, vocabulary lists, and foreign languages many times faster.
- Remember people’s names, telephone numbers, and important personal details.
- Easily remember to-do-lists, shopping lists, procedures etc. without having to depend on pieces of paper.
Personal Growth Benefits
- Develop powers of observation which make life intensely more interesting!
- Gain enormous self confidence because absent-mindedness will become a thing of the past.
- Actually experience your brain becoming smarter, stronger and more creative, indicating that new neural connections are being developed.
Week 1
IN-CLASS
- Get to know your brain
- Cultivating a life style to keep your brain healthy and alive
- Recalling sequential information
MEMORY SYSTEM
- Chain Linking System
Week 2
IN-CLASS
- Brain Plasticity (or growth of new neurons)
- Review Chain Linking System
- Recalling abstract information
MEMORY SYSTEM
- Basic Association
Week 3
IN-CLASS
- Making, Storing, Retrieving Memories
- Review Basic Association
- Recalling out-of-sequence Information
MEMORY SYSTEM
- Peg System
Week 4
IN-CLASS
- Overcoming Absent Mindedness
- Review Peg System
- Remember those Names and Faces!
MEMORY SYSTEM
- Names and Faces System
Week 5
IN-CLASS
- The Aging Brain and Dementias
- Review Names and Faces
- Make that presentation, speech, toast, without notes!
MEMORY SYSTEM
- Loci Method
Week 6
IN-CLASS
- Learn difficult or new vocabulary in minutes!
- Boost your memory by unlocking your creativity
MEMORY SYSTEM
- Remembering Through Movement
- Creating Mind Maps