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Brain Dominance and Mind Mapping INNOVATIVE LEADERS

Marshall Potts (Consultant) Development & Consultancy

Welcome

Mind Mapping and Brain Training

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To understand how to use the brain, we have to

understand how it works!



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Program Aim:

To provide individuals with a deeper understanding of the whole brain effect and link this to the process of mind mapping. This course will provide the input detail to use your brain more effectively and an understanding of how individual brain personal profiles differ and link to enable participants to be more innovative and creative, communicate better, interact and think in a completely new and holistic way. The programme utilises two internationally well respected models of brain management – Whole Brain and Brain Dominance (Ned Herrmann – The Creative Brain) – Mind Mapping (Tony Buzan Mind Mapping and Radiant Thought).

Program Objectives:

To have a clear understanding of the evolution of Brain Dominance Measurement with a particular relevance to Engineering and the Oil and Gas Industries.

To have undergone full instruction on how to capitalize and use the brain more effectively and received personal feedback from a certified HBDI practitioner.

Received a full and detailed learning experience, applying the principles of whole brain

To have undergone instruction on Mind Mapping Techniques, Radiant Thinking and to link this to learning in brain dominance.



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Dominance

Dominance, such as left or right handedness, can occur between two parts of a physically living whole.

Dominance is perfectly normal and natural.

Dominance is part of the human condition, and all human beings experience its consequences everyday.



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The Triune Brain

The neurologist Paul MacLean has proposed that our skull holds not one brain, but three, each representing a distinct evolutionary stratum that has formed upon the older layer before it, like an archaeological site. He calls it the "triune brain." MacLean, now the director of the Laboratory of Brain Evolution and Behaviour in Poolesville, Maryland, says that three brains operate like "three interconnected biological computers, [each] with its own special intelligence, its own subjectivity, its own sense of time and space and its own memory". He refers to these three brains as the neocortex or neo-mammalian brain, the limbic or paleo-mammalian system, and the reptilian brain, the brainstem and cerebellum (see next diagram). Each of the three brains is connected by nerves to the other two, but each seems to operate as its own brain system with distinct capacities.



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Mind Mapping

Radiant Thinking

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A mind map or mindmap is a pictorial representation of how a central concept is linked to other concepts and issues. It is similar to a semantic network or cognitive map but there are no formal restrictions on the kinds of links used. Most often the map involves colour or monochrome images, words, and lines. The elements are arranged intuitively according to the importance of the concepts and they are organized into groupings, branches, or areas.

In other words, a mind map is a multicolored and image centered radial diagramme that represents semantic or other connections between portions of learned material. The uniform graphic formulation of the semantic structure of information on the way to gathering knowledge may help reconsolidation of memories. It is advertised as a way of increasing motivation to work on a task. For example, the map can graphically illustrate the structure of government institutions in a state. A mind map well-structured and well-established can be subject to review (e.g. with spaced repetition).

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Mind Mapping 5 Key Concepts

Natural Architecture

Foundations

Structure

Synthesis

Uses

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Mind Mapping


95 per cent of people experience major problems in such areas as thinking, memory, concentration,

motivation, organisation of ideas, decision-making and planning.

Here we introduce you to Radiant Thinking and Mind Mapping, demonstrating how each is a natural

offshoot of the brains fundamental structure and how each can improve dramatically your mental

performance.

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Natural ArchitectureAmazing Brain

Great Brains

Brains in Quandary

Radiant Thinking

The Way Ahead

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Amazing Brain

It was after studying the brain cell that Sir Charles Sherrington, considered by many to be the grandfather of

neurophysiology, was moved to make the following poetic statement:

“The human brain is an enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern, always

a meaningful pattern, though never an abiding one, a shifting harmony of sub patterns. It is as if the Milky Way

entered upon some cosmic dance”

In each human brain there are an estimated one million brain cells.

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Great Brains

Those considered to be “great brains” in the field of art, science, politics, literature, the military, business and

education have all used notes to help them think.

For those of you who have been criticised for making “messy notes” or “doodling” what follows in this

programme will provide consolation and vindication.

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Brains in Quandary

There are inherent weaknesses of note making or taking systems currently used all over the world. By

analysing the effectiveness of various styles of note making/taking we can begin to evolve a system that

works with our brains rather than against them.

It is important, at the outset, to make a clear distinction between note making and note taking. Note making

means organising your own thoughts often in a creative, innovative way. Note taking means summarising

someone else’s thoughts as expressed in a book, article or lecture.

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Radiant ThinkingRadiant thinking is a major evolutionary step in the understanding, accessing and nurturing of the human

brain.

Information processing is what happens in your brain when you taste a ripe pear, smell flowers, listen to

music, watch a stream, touch a loved one, or simply reminisce.

The answer to both is simple and amazingly complex.

Each bit of information entering your brain, every sensation, memory or thought (incorporating every word,

number, code, food, fragrance, line, colour, image, beat, note and texture) can be represented as a central

sphere from which radiate tens, hundreds, thousands, millions of hooks that information hangs on.

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The Way Ahead

Defining the natural expression of radiant thinking: the Mind Map, the next evolution in human thought.

The Mind Map is an expression of radiant thinking and is therefore a natural function of the human mind, it is

a powerful graphic technique which provides a universal key to unlocking the potential of the brain. The Mind

Map can be applied to every aspect of life where improved learning and clearer thinking will enhance human

performance. The Mind Map has four essential characteristics.

A) The subject of attention is crystallised in a central image.

B) The main themes of the subject radiate from the central image as branches.

C) Branches comprise a key image or key word printed on an associated line. Topics of lesser importance are

also represented as branches attached to higher level branches.

D) The branches form a connected nodal structure.

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Mind Mapping

Foundations

This section investigates the twin worlds of words and images, showing you can unleash extraordinary mental

energy through the use of power brainstorming and associated techniques. It takes you from the basic radiant

thinking brainstorming, through mini mind map brainstorming to the mind map itself.

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FoundationsBrainstorming Words

Brainstorming Images

Brainstorming to Mind Mapping

Mind Mapping

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Mind Mapping

Foundations

Brainstorming Words

Brainstorming words explore in depth your brain’s radiant thinking processing system. Through a number

of brainstorming exercises you will discover the vast potential of your associative machinery as well as

gaining an insight into your own and other people’s uniqueness as individuals. Exercises will help you

with new brainstorming techniques, in particular you will gain a deeper understanding of communication

and how we can avoid misunderstanding each other.

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Foundations

Brainstorming Images

Here we will discuss recent brain research which has astounded experts around the world. In 1970 Scientific American magazine

published the result of a fascinating experiment carried out by Ralph Haber. Haber had shown his subjects a series of 2560 slides

representing one image once every ten seconds. It took approximately seven hours for the subjects to view all the slides, but this

viewing time was divided in separate sessions over a period of several days. An hour after the last slide had been shown the

subjects were tested for recognition. Each person was shown 2560 pairs of slides, in which one slide came from the series they

had seen while the other came from a similar set which they had not seen. On average, the accuracy of their recognition was

between 85% and 95%.

Having confirmed the unrivalled accuracy of the brain as a receiving, holding and recalling mechanism, Haber also carried out a

second experiment to check the brain’s ability to recognise its speed. In this experiment one slide was shown every second. The

results were identical, indicating that not only does the brain have an extraordinary capacity to imprint and recall, but that it can

do so, with no loss of accuracy, at incredibly high speeds.

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Mind Mapping

Foundations

Brainstorming to Mind Mapping

This section continues the process we have looked at previously with the happiness exercise. Moving on

from the Mini Mind Map stage, this section takes you to the threshold of full mind mapping by showing you

how to expand any mini mind map to any size you want.

Now try out a happiness mini mind map, place happiness in the centre with a circle around it and expand

using words that represent happiness to you.

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Mind Mapping

Foundations

Mind Mapping

This section introduces you to techniques for ordering and structuring your thinking and the “journey

through the mind of a mind mapper” enabling you to see the process of mind mapping “from the inside”.

The full power of the mind map is realised by having a central image instead of a central word and by using

an image wherever appropriate rather than words. Combining the two cortical skills of words and images

multiplies your intellectual power, especially when you create your own images.

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Structure

With any concept there are general laws to be applied. This section will guide you towards being able to

increase massively your mental precision, creativity, power and freedom. Once you have understood and

absorbed the basic mind map laws you will be able to develop more rapidly your own personal mind mapping

style.

The mind map laws are intended to increase, rather than restrict, your mental freedom. In this context, it is

important not to confuse order with rigidity or freedom with chaos (remember yellow and green in brain

dominance).

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StructureGuiding Principles

Developing a Personal Style

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Structure

Guiding Principles

Techniques

1. Use emphasis

2. Use association

3. Be clear

4. Develop personal style

Layout

1. Use hierarchy

2. Use numerical order

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Structure

Developing a Personal Style

Mind Maps provide the ideal opportunity to improve your hand/eye coordination and to develop and define

your visual skills. With a little more practice, the image-making skills you have already developed can be

used to take your mind maps into the realms of art. Such mind maps enable your brain to express its own

artistic and creative personality. In developing your own personal style it is especially useful to apply the

guiding principles or image, colour, dimensions and spacing.

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Mind Mapping

Synthesis

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SynthesisMaking Choices

Organising Ideas

Organising Others Ideas

Memory

Creative Thinking

Group Mind Mapping

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Synthesis

Making Choices

1. Process-generated

2. Number-weighting

3. Intuition/Superlogic

4. Incubation

5. If the weightings are equal

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Synthesis

Organising Ideas

Basic questions – how/when/where/why/what/who/which?

Divisions – chapters/lessons/themes

Properties – characteristics of things

History – chronological sequence of events

Structure – forms of things

Function – what things do

Process – how things work

Evaluation – how good/worthwhile/beneficial things are

Classification – how things are related to each other

Definitions – what things mean

Personalities – what roles/characters people have

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Mind Mapping

Synthesis

Organising Others Ideas

Using Mnemonics

Using Analysis

Using Group Creativity

Using free-flow Conversational Techniques

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Synthesis

Memory

Iconic Memory

Short-term Memory

Long-term Memory

Using Imagery

Relational Referencing

Using Mnemonics

Using Word Recall

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Synthesis

Creative ThinkingAssociate new and unique ideas with pre-existing ones.

Use different colours in creative thinking.

Use different shapes in creative thinking.

Combine unusual elements.

Magnify and use dimension.

Adjust conceptual position.

Adjust conceptual position.

Rearrange and link pre-existing concepts.

Reverse pre-existing concepts.

Respond to an aesthetically appealing object.

Respond to an emotionally appealing object.

Respond to an object which appeals to the senses of sight, touch, hearing, smell and taste.

Use interchangeable shapes and codes.

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Synthesis

Group Mind Mapping1. Defining the subject.

2. Individual brainstorming.

3. Small group discussion.

4. Creation of first multiple Mind Map.

5. Incubation.

6. Second reconstruction and revision.

7. Analysis and decision-making.

Group Mind Mapping Applications: The major applications of group Mind Maps are as follows

- Joint creativity

- Combined recall

- Group problem-solving and analysis

- Group decision-making

- Group project management

- Group training and education

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Mind Mapping

Uses

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UsesPersonal

Family

Educational

Business and Professional

The Future

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Mind Mapping

Uses

Personal

1. Preparation of your environment.

2. Quick-fire Mind Map burst.

3. Reconstruction and Revision.

4. Decision-making.

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Mind Mapping

Uses

Family1. Thinking of an idea.

2. Individual brainstorming.

3. Reconstruction and Revision.

4. Incubation.

5. Creating the first group Mind Map.

6. Telling the story.

7. Creating the second group Mind Map

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Mind Mapping

Uses

Educational

1. Mind Mapping for essays.

2. Mind Mapping for examinations

3. Mind Mapping for projects and reports

4. Benefits of Mind Maps for presentation and writing tasks

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Mind Mapping

Uses

Business and Professional

1. Mind Mapping as an individual

2. Mind Mapping as a group

3. Chairing a meeting with a Mind Map

4. Benefits of Mind Maps for meetings

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Mind Mapping

Uses

The FutureThe Intelligence Revolution

- The brain information explosion

- Brain Stars

- The Mind Sports Olympiad

Mental Literacy

- The Mentally Literate individual

- The Mentally Literate family

- The Mentally Literate organisation

- The Mentally Literate society

- A Mentally Literate civilisation

Radiant Thinking

- Radiant Future

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