Author Archives: Ally

Ally McCulloch

Ally McCulloch is one of the World’s natural facilitator/coach/trainers.

He has a fundamental belief in the positive potential within all of us. His passion to support his learners to achieve the very best that they can is inspirational. He combines this with an encyclopaedic knowledge of accelerated learning tools and techniques and an infectious but gentle humour that regularly gets him rave reviews.

With a pragmatic spiritual approach to life, Ally’s other passions include his family, his faith and his music.

Experience or memory – how do you know your learners are happy?

Last week, I watched a fascinating TED video called ” The Riddle of Experience vs. Memory”. In it, Nobel laureate and founder of behavioral economics Daniel Kahneman revealed how our “experiencing selves” and our “remembering selves” perceive happiness differently. The blurb describing the video content said:
This new insight has profound implications for economics, public policy [...]

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A big thanks – and a request for help

It’s just over 6 months since Paul and I started Brain Friendly Trainer. It began as an experiment. Work was light because of the economic downturn and we wanted to use the time wisely and do something to support others involved in designing and delivering brain friendly learning.

We made a commitment to write 2 or 3 times a week for 6 months and see what happened.

Well, this month has been our best yet, with over 1,500 visitors, most of you pop back every few days! Thanks to you all.

So what’s next…

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Another lesson in learning from children

Childsplay - learning can happen when we just live life and notice

Learning is a funny thing. We have formalised a sytem of classrooms, evaluation, experts and students that can often reduce our opportunities to help others learn as well as limiting our own ability to learn

Last week I wrote about 3 things I learned about change from my daughter and next week we’ll have an excellent [...]

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When our passion clouds our judgement

One of the challenges we face in Brain Friendly Learning is reacting to scientific discoveries in an appropriate way. This is especially true when the headlines or accepted interpretation of the data reinforces our own experience. It’s only natural that we use this new (or sometimes surprisingly old!) data in our training sessions and workshops.

We [...]

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History of Accelerated Learning by RapidBI-Mgt

Dr Georgi Lozanov

Mike Morrison over at RapidBi.com has written a great article on the history of Accelerated Learning (Brain Friendly Learning). He ends with this insightful conclusion:
Anything that is good has to be handled with caution and the developments in Accelerated Learning are no exception. With the advent of the Internet, there has been a mushrooming of [...]

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