Here is the information related to my programs at the conference. Thank you for visiting. I hope what I have posted will be helpful to you.
As I said at the program, unless you review the material presented, you will very likely forget. If you want to recall what we discussed, I hope you have gone over your notes since March 8. Click for some information about the Ebbinghaus Curve of Forgetting which I described to you. Times for reviewing vary slightly according to what books and articles you read; to counteract forgetting, I recommend interacting with the material during the program, after 1 day, after 2 days, after 1 week, and after 1 month. A related article: "Four Principles of Memory Improvement: A Guide to Improving Learning Efficiency" (International Journal of Creativity & Problem Solving).
A primary key to learning and to resolving conflict is attention. Click to read about the role of learning in conflict resolution. What you pay attention to will change your brain, so one of the primary tasks of a person wishing to help others resolve conflict is to pay attention to what the parties are paying attention to. A teacher, a trainer, a mediator, a conflict professional is an attention conductor, an attention choreographer.
Because the brain uses approximately 20% of our energy, it tries to conserve energy which presents a challenge for trying to get its attention. The brain can be very lazy.
Methods we discussed for getting INSIDE the brain, qualities that will attract the brain's attention:
- I-nteractive
- N-ovel
- S-cary
- I-ntense
- D-iverting
- E-motional
The more ways you work with the material presented, the more ways you pay attention to the material, the stronger will be your learning.
Remember: Learning = More neuron connections/more synapses
Seven methods for interacting with content . . .
7 Synapse Supporters
- Listen
- Write parrot notes
- Write notes, thoughts & reflections
- Discuss
- Use
- Teach
- Draw*
*Click for information about using images to enrich your thinking, remembering, and learning. The best book on the topic is Opening the Mind's Eye: How Images and Language Teach Us How To See.
More about the elements of the CARVE Disputes Model™:
C—Curiosity
- Relationship between anxiety and curiosity
- Research on the use of curiosity in conflict (has not yet been published)
- Interviews of Todd Kashdan, author of the book Curious?
A—Attention
- A tight grip on your mental flashlight is the deciding skill in conflict resolution
- Book: Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life
R—Reflection
V—Values
- The values assessment
- Your values: One way to lessen the stress of conflict
- Some benefits of values affirmation, and methods for affirming your values
E—Emergent (or Ensemble)
- Our brain interacts with other brains so to study the single brain can be a misleading abstraction
- Click here and scroll down to the sections on mirror neurons and emotional contagion
- Books: Mirrors in the Brain: How Our Minds Share Actions, Emotions, and Experience and Emotional Contagion
Some topics we discussed:
- "It Takes Two to Tango" (The Creativity Post)-about both hemispheres of the brain being involved in creativity
- "Neural reuse: Yay, team brain" (Brains on Purpose™)-about regions of the brain working together as a team
- Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Modes (Ed Batista)-the diagram I drew in the afternoon breakout; click to read posts Ralph Kilmann has written about the modes (Brains on Purpose™)
- A short interview of the authors of the new book Emotional Life of Your Brain (Businessweek.com)-a book I mentioned in the afternoon program when discussing how unique we each are
- "Empowering Students to Create and Claim Value through the Thomas–Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument" (Negotiation Journal).
Note: Click to find some resources from a presentation on brain-friendly learning.
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