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Meeting Architecture, a manifesto.

Posted March 7th, 2008 by maarten.vannest...
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Read Book review from Elling Hamso    Dr. Elling Hamso, Managing Partner, European Event ROI Institute

 MEETING ARCHITECTURE 

10 Brain-Based Learning Laws That Trump Traditional Education

Posted February 1st, 2012 by mireia.iglesias
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The Brain’s Natural Learning Trumps

The fields of cognitive psychology and neuroscience study how the brain takes in, stores, retrieves and applies information.

Cognitive scientists and educators are learning new ways to apply this information. It’s that application that has lead to these learning trumps.

Forgetting is part of Remembering by ScienceDaily

Posted October 19th, 2011 by mireia.iglesias
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Forgetting Is Part of Remembering

It's time for forgetting to get some respect, says Ben Storm, author of a new article on memory in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

Food for thought by Andrea Sullivan from Brain Strength Systems and The National Conference Center Professionals

Posted August 11th, 2011 by mireia.iglesias
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Enhancing Meetings Through Food 
How can we increase the learning and the effectiveness in our meetings? 
"Meeting success is mainly impacted by meals served at breakfast and lunch." 

See how food, mind and body are connected in the following article: http://bit.ly/hcNftX 

Creating An Unforgettable Event: Unlocking Memory By Unleashing The Power Of Thinking

Posted July 25th, 2011 by mireia.iglesias
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You are what you eat. What you see is what you get.
These idioms are familiar to most of us.
Here’s a simple truth: What you think about is what you remember!
The implication for your conferences, events and meetings are substantial.

Our Memory Is Like A Video Recorder?

How Does Alcohol Affect Memory? Study Offers New Insight

Posted April 25th, 2011 by parbuckle
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Drinking alcohol primes certain areas of our brain to learn and remember better, says a new study from the Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research at The University of Texas at Austin. 

Oxytocin increases trust in humans

Posted December 10th, 2010 by maarten.vannest...
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Trust pervades human societies. Trust is indispensable in friendship, love, families and organizations, and plays a key role in economic exchange and politics. In the absence of trust among trading partners, market transactions break down. In the absence of trust in a country’s institutions and leaders, political legitimacy breaks down. Much recent evidence indicates that trust contributes to economic, political and social success.

Juggling increases brain power

Posted September 17th, 2010 by mireia.iglesias
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The volunteers were taught to juggle with three balls
Complex tasks such as juggling produce significant changes to the structure of the brain, according to scientists at Oxford University.
In the journal, Nature Neuroscience, the scientists say they saw a 5% increase in white matter - the cabling network of the brain.
The people who took part in the study were trained for six weeks and had brain scans before and after.
Long term it could aid treatments for diseases like multiple sclerosis.

Diffusion MRI

Brain Needs 3D to Remember Faces

Posted September 12th, 2010 by parbuckle
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ScienceDaily (Sep. 10, 2010) — In our dynamic 3-D world, we can encounter a familiar face from any angle and still recognize that face with ease, even if the person has, for example, changed his hair style. This is because our brain has used the 2-D snapshots perceived by our eyes (like a camera) to build and store a 3-D mental representation of the face, which is resilient to such changes.

The evolution of Meeting Formats, the rebirth of the Campfire Meeting

Posted July 27th, 2010 by maarten.vannest...
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Long ago we had meetings around a campfire. A small group of people in a circle, listening to stories, debating, conversing, learning from each other.
Much later, in more recent ages, only the rich and powerful could talk to larger groups, armies and other audiences.
And even more recently, thanks to sound equipment, we all can afford to address a public, larger than the campfire crowd.

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