How I can help you as an individual or parent
Do you, your child or your team want to explore ways to make listening and learning more fun and engaging?
Making notes and capturing thinking is a regular part of our daily life.
Technology dominates our lives and sometimes we need to go back to pen and paper to engage more fully in the process of thinking: being physically connected to the learning helps lock it in and research says that this helps it to become more memorable.
Visual sketchnotes use either traditional and digital approaches to note making when recording conversations, meetings, lectures, lessons and conferences.
Having a visually-rich resource to reflect on and revisit helps to focus you or your team.
Strategies to help you visualise thinking
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As an individual: Ideas, vision and planning
Whether you are a teacher, business owner, CEO or participant in a meeting or workshop, we all experience times when communicating our ideas are paramount.
Could integrating text with imagery help clarify meaning and understanding?
Collaborative thinking is extremely effective in building trust and leading change.
I can help you to harness the skill of visual communication for all your problem solving needs.
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As a parent: Capturing thinking and learning
You may see your child overwhelmed with information, work or struggling with balancing their studies. They may not have been taught effective study skills and learning strategies that really work. Science and research shows that retrieval practice is the best way to study all year, not just before exams or assessments. I can help your child to learn these skills and apply these strategies to their weekly reviews or study time, by utilising approaches to note taking, flashcards, spaced practice and concept maps. Learning will become more fun, engaging and successful as a result!
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As a learner: Concept mapping
Organising thinking and seeing connections is a sure way to gain clarity and understanding. It also helps you to remember better.
As a learner you may need to gather and sort information or ideas in your work and a concept map can be just what you need. Mapping helps to sort and clarify ideas and information through utilising visual and spatial approaches.
Find out more by chatting with me about the research and thinking behind concept maps and how this approach to capturing thinking can help to communicate more clearly.
