About Us
Allan Parker

Dr Stephanie Burns
Learning to Learn
By Dr Stephanie Burns
International Leader in the Application of Mind/Brain Research to Learning & Accelerated Achievement
Learning to Learn is a 3-day program that gives you practical skills to be used every day making learning easier & fun.
Dr Burns programs have been presented worldwide to over 100,000 people of all ages, including business people, trainers, academics, educators, students and parents.
You Should Attend If:
- You need to manage large amounts of information and get results – fast!
- You want to maximise your time – read faster remember more!
- You are planning on advancing your career in the near future
- You just want to feel better about yourself as a Learner
- You want to help your children with their schoolwork – as no-one’s teaching these strategies and you wan them to have access to these techniques, so as to lift them to another level
- You’d love to learn a new language – and realise it can get easier as you get older
- You have an unrealized desire to learn a musical instrument
Or … you just want to push yourself – just because …
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What You Will Learn:
- How you currently learn
- How learning can be fun
- How to develop new strategies to easily and quickly:
- Locate information
- Hold concentration longer
- Take in, retain and recall information
- Enhance your vocabulary
- Recall and apply information on demand
- Spell more accurately
- Read 2-4 times faster
- Specific memory skills, for vocabulary, foreign languages, facts and names
- How to take notes that are purposeful, useful and memorable
- How to change your perception of time and use it more effectively
- Enhance comprehension
- Enhance physical coordination and balance
- Improve and increase your range of study techniques
- Turn learning disabilities into learning abilities
- How the best learners learn and copy that
- Convert your learning from hard work to fun
- Understand how adults can learn faster than children
- Focus your brain for concentrated effort and get reports, projects and tasks completed in record time
- Improve general study strategies
- Have simple practical strategies to be better organised and prevent information overload
- Be able to teach your own children how to learn more easily & effectively
Course Outline
Learning Strategies
- Chunking – task decomposition
- Strategies for learning any complex behavioural skill
- Sensory based learning – visual, auditory, kinaesthetic
- How to manufacture strong sensory based experiences while learning
- The use of sensory deprivation strategies
- Strategies for programming your brain and body for success
- Ability to concentrate your attention as a key to effective learning
Memory Training
- Memory as a skill available to all, not a talent endowed to only a few
- Registration, retention and recall
- Strategies to remember and recall any and all information that is useful to you – names and faces, speech outlines, vocabulary, new language, meeting agendas, book contents
- Exercises to gain total confidence and competence in your memory skills
Effective Note-taking
- Note-taking skills (e.g. mind-mapping) to serve the memory and recall process
- How to take notes that will be USEFUL; that you will refer to over and over again
- Strategies that work equally well for all types of note-taking – meeting notes, lecture notes or your own personal idea notations
Vocabulary
- Linking skills
- How to quickly master new vocabulary without the rote memorization of the past
- Strategies to add an amazing amount of new words each day to current vocabulary in
- Your own field
- A new technical language, or
- A foreign language
Reading
- Strategies to increase your reading speed three to four times, or more
- State control
- Physiological techniques
- How to improve your comprehension skills
- Exercises