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Paul Wright

Bringing a broad experience of 25 years from many diverse organisations Paul’s areas of expertise are the design and delivery of highly interactive but pragmatic Brain Friendly learning experiences, drawing on lessons and synergies from NLP.

As well as the UK and Ireland Paul has worked in France, Germany, Spain, America, Mexico and India and is passionate about ensuring that he brings about a positive difference to every delegate and every organisation he works with.

Clients describe Paul as a consummate professional with a high degree of integrity who delivers on his promises.

Participants describe his sessions as learning with a punch; great fun, very interactive but always focussed on delivering the outcomes.

Paul’s other passion is his music. When not writing in his studio at home he can occasionally be found playing an old Les Paul guitar in bands around Oxfordshire.

Is this the most important and exciting piece of research in years?

By Paul | Published: June 29, 2010
Recently, we discovered a little about the prefrontal cortex, looked at David Rock’s “actors on the stage” metaphor and applied it to the early driving experience of Paul's son. In this post we get down to the nitty gritty of what is going on and how brain friendly trainers can apply it to learning in any situation.
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Your brain is a stage with only four actors

By Paul | Published: June 23, 2010
In his book Your Brain At Work David Rock likens the pre-frontal cortex to a theatrical stage. At various times there will be actors on the stage and it is these actors that we are describing when we talk about what we are focussed on. So right now you may have a reading actor on your stage as you read this, you may also have a musical actor on stage if you are playing some background music, you may have your e-mail sorting actor on stage and / or potentially one or more of many.
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Learn to drive in a day the Brain Friendly way.

By Paul | Published: June 20, 2010
It’s a big day in our family. My eldest son is 17 and the only thing he has wanted for his birthday since last year has been driving lessons. So this morning, having spent a large proportion of his inheritance on insurance, I drove him to a quiet street in his mother’s car where the learning [...]
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Desire, dopamine and successful set ups

By Paul | Published: June 1, 2010
As we discover more and more about neuroscience and how the brain works, I find myself making more and more connections to learning and training. For sometime Ally and I have been talking about the importance of really good set-ups in brain friendly learning; whether it’s the pre-programme invitation or the set up for the day [...]
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Take your learners to a concert (or two)

By Paul | Published: May 23, 2010
The use of background music during lectures, vocabulary decoding, or group readings is a cornerstone of Accelerated Learning techniques. Two methods for using music, designed to create very different but equally effective learning environments, were developed through Lozanov's methods. They are called concerts.
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