Wake up your learning brain with Francesco Bianchi & Ana Mandić

Brains are lazy organs.

They are not like that on purpose just because they are naughty but because that’s a survival mechanism. In fact they are so powerful that if used at full capacity all the time they would use more calories than one could ever possibly ingest.

And so overtime evolution has rewarded behaviours of the brain that allow it to save energy. That involves resistance to change. And learning is changing.

So we are naturally resistant to learn, unless we can trick our brain.

The lucky part is that in the domain of Learning these tricks are simple and can lead to an experience that is much more gratifying than the standard boring lectures we have typically used to.

In this workshop Ana will help us uncover how we can re-design our training classes so that they can reach also the laziest of brains. She will give the basics of a model based on science, enough to then let us try it out on a topic of our choice.

In parallel Francesco will capture visually all the concepts covered so that the experience can be as personalised as possible.

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Ana Mandić
Ana is an Agile Coach with vast experience operating in large multi-national companies. Deeply passionate about learning, she's an accredited instructor for Training from the Back of the Room. She loves the idea of using the opportunity of meetups to share knowledge among participants and experiment together in new engaging ways with the goal to learn concepts that otherwise may sound too abstract.

Francesco Bianchi
Francesco is a Visual Coach and Agile Thinker on a mission to make the world of work more fun. His current focus is on building learning experiences in a safe and inclusive environment by leveraging all of the cutting-edge techniques for Visual Thinking, Brain-Based learning and Facilitation for highly collaborative meetings to ensure people are and feel at the center.

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