Accelerated Learning

A Seminar in Theory and Practice

The current times, with their demands and simultaneous progress, confront many people with great challenges. It seems that there is an endless access to information and knowledge available like never before. Therefore the need for fast and efficient learning is not only present for students, pupils, and highly qualified professionals, but for pretty much anyone. It exists not only quantitatively, but above all qualitatively.

In the last 30 years, many changes in the professional world have led to higher turnover and individual pressure to perform. More than ever people are exposed to an uncontrollable and less secure future. In addition, the Digital Revolution created a shift in the labor market that had never occurred on this scale before. The knowledge required to perform certain tasks changes on average every 9 months. This has resulted in a huge demand for fast learning, yet largely with insufficient resources of expert knowledge.

Due to this pressure to perform, not only professionals began writing books on efficient learning. Seemingly, anyone who had acquired a certain amount of knowledge felt called to do so. However, most of these books were written mainly with the intent of making a profit, rather than with the motivation to share valuable knowledge and tools. Many authors primarily appeal to the comfort zone of potential buyers.

This seminar on accelerated learning does not promise that learning will always be easy and fun, nor that one can learn a new language faster by passively exposing oneself to it. This seminar provides knowledge and tools about learning, how it works, and how to apply it successfully. Learn how to learn.

CONTENT OF THE SEMINAR

1. Preparation for active learning

a. Neuroanatomical Fundamentals

b. The ways of learning – conscious and non-conscious (automated) learning

c. Learning-principles of the psyche

d. The role of our attitudes and mindset towards learning and the subject material

e. How to recognize learning-blockages and how to overcome them?

f. How to develop a healthy curiosity towards learning?

g. Beneficial setting and circumstances for learning

h. Other additional and beneficial factors for more efficient learning

2. Learning processes

a. How to prepare and accustom yourself to new learning-material?

b. The role of questions prior to the first study session

c. How to ask the right questions?

d. The first reading

e. Note taking while reading

f. How to underline key words and terms?

g. Repetition after the first reading

h. Questions before the second reading

i. Repetitions after the second reading

3. Mnemotechnics

4. Emotionalised Learning

5. The role of conditioning in the process of sensomotoric learning

6. Memorisation and mental accesability of the learning material – Repetitions

7. How to build your own structure of knowledge

8. Examples:

a. Preparation for an exam

b. Learning of skills (in sports, music, acting, at work, in communication, writing etc.)

c. learning of languages