Sunday, 1 June 2008

Updated RT Conference speaker list


FIRST LATINAMERICAN BILINGUAL CONFERENCE OF NEUROLINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING IN EDUCATION

AUGUST 8-9 2008


Instituto Santa Ana y San Joaquín

Olazábal 1440

Belgrano

Buenos Aires



Sessions in English

Susana Carballo - From other people's gardens: How NLP authors helped me improve my teaching skills
Gladys Contrafatto - NLP and Cooperative Learning
Silvana Fiorito, Laura Gallina – Circle Time: A Tool in Staff Meetings
Natalia Haller - I believe in learning adults!
Matilde Machiavello - Multisensory stories
María Teresa Manteo - Art, Cognition and NLP
Gabriela Properzi - Class Management
Patricia Ribot, Ana María Cerdá - NLP and exam preparation?
Lilly Spillman - Metaphors: The Resources Are Within Us

And just added…..

Patricia Brisindi - In-Company Teaching
Gonzalo J. Camp and Pablo Scoponi – "I know all about VAK… Now, what?"



Sessions in English

Susana Carballo - From other people's gardens: How NLP authors helped me improve my teaching skills

In this workshop I intend to share with my colleagues my experience in teaching English to executives in companies using NLP. I will explain how I use NLP for teaching English and
how I use readings from NLP authors to help students develop as professionals and as human beings.

Gladys Contrafatto - NLP and Cooperative Learning


I would like to share my experience in the use of COOPERATIVE LEARNING in the classroom because I have discovered that NLP is highly present in this methodology.
I believe that by means of Cooperative learning we prepare students for a world that increasingly demands highly developed social skills to deal with greater economic and social interdependence. To succeed, students must learn to communicate and work well with others within a full range of social situations, how to value differences and to become aware of how the use of language makes sense of their experience and how they communicate that experience to others.

Silvana Fiorito, Laura Gallina – Circle Time: A Tool in Staff Meetings
This talk is for teachers and coordinators interested in their own personal and professional development. It will open channels to understand themselves and the people they are working with and for. NLP presuppositions, the VAK, NLP models and techniques such as Life levels, Timelines and Perceptual positions are present in Circle Time depending on its aim. We also include stories, metaphors and songs to bridge gaps between the heart and the mind.


Natalia Haller - I believe in learning adults!
You've got the class planned, the materials and everything set for your grown up students... now, what's ON YOUR MIND? Do you really believe adults can learn or are you a little suspicious?????? In this workshop we'll look into why our beliefs as teachers do have a great impact on learners.


Matilde Machiavello - Multisensory stories


It is my aim to present some of the tools NLP offers to those who have never heard or experienced them, as well as to illustrate through the experience, the range of possibilities to improve communication among students, teachers and peers. By means of stories told, heard, created and recreated, the participants will get a deep insight into the basic NLP presuppositions that will surely open a window through which they will be able to perceive a brand new perspective, and encourage them to move onto their own path of discovery.

María Teresa Manteo - Art, Cognition and NLP

Through art- whatever shape it takes- we can activate abstract thinking skills such as questioning, connecting and synthesis. On the other hand, art offers attractive pathways to engage children in sensory rich contexts, where imagination and ideas run freely facilitating the flow of cognitive quests. NLP is the bridge between these two worlds. Careful messages prepare the mind and the soul to indulge in processes that trigger associations and allow ideas to germinate. Finding the right words to show the way is an art in itself - and this presentation will attempt to explore the kaleidoscope where ideas, color and sound meld to help create mosaics of thought in empowering circles of cognition.


Gabriela Properzi - Class Management

In the workshop I will refer to Classroom Management, the steps a teacher can follow to make the students' profile and integrate contents and learning in a learner centered approach. NLP tools and principles will be used to work more effectively.


Patricia Ribot, Ana María Cerdá - NLP and exam preparation?

This presentation aims at sharing with other teachers of English where, when and how to use some NLP strategies and techniques with those students who have decided to sit for a Cambridge Exam and are willing to be relaxed, confident and fluent in the Speaking Paper.

Lilly Spillman - Metaphors: The Resources Are Within Us

The rich vocabulary used in Pablo Neruda’s Ode to the Sea is by all means appealing to the listener’s representational styles: Visual, Auditory and Kinesthetic. Going through its symbolic language, the participants will explore how Metaphors work at all sorts of levels and can be used in a most beneficial way both inside and outside the language classroom.

Patricia Brisindi - In-Company Teaching

NLP gives us all the necessary resources for pre-course evaluation of adults, as well as the tools to make the learning experience effective and meaningful, thus relieving the teacher of the burden to follow a certain type of methodology and feeling like a "sinner" when they try to innovate or rather use an older method. The students who learn under these beliefs, get to know themselves better and therefore ask for what they need.

Gonzalo J. Camp and Pablo Scoponi – "I know all about VAK… Now, what?"


In this workshop, we will deal with ways of adapting activities to cater for VAK in your classrooms. How often do you deviate from the course book? Why? Why not? Come and learn creative and memorable activities that will help you enhance your teaching in order to reach all your students' needs.



Presentaciones en castellano


Lucila Barbero de Bermúdez - Posiciones Preceptuales: "Ponerse en el lugar del otro"
Graciela Daglio, Belén González – van a hablar sobre el aprendizaje y las neurociencias
Marisa D'Alessandro - Cambia la forma de ver las cosas y cambiarás las cosas que ves
Rosana M. Fernández Coto - Desarrollando la respons-habilidad emocional
Amalia Maine - Aquí y Ahora - La Celebración de una decisión.
Graciela Marchetti, Gustavo Paz - Creencias Limitantes: ¿Victimas o Protagonistas de nuestra vida?
Maria Herminia Cacheiro - “La Princesa que creía en los cuentos de hadas”: Cómo las creencias modelan las expectativas y potencian o limitan las capacidades y comportamientos. (Un enfoque desde la Programación Neuro-Lingüística)


Y nuevas agregadas….

Elsa Bengardino - Líneas de tiempo: cómo vernos a futuro haciendo algo que hoy creemos imposible
Raquel Guterman - El docente, un líder de equipos en el aula.


Presentaciones en castellano


Lucila Barbero de Bermúdez - Posiciones Preceptuales: "Ponerse en el lugar del otro"
Muchas veces escuchamos decir esa frase, pero ¿qué significa realmente? En este taller vamos a conocer las distintas posiciones desde las cuales podemos percibir los hechos, y entender como cambian los significados de la comunicación cada vez que variamos el lugar en el que nos ubicamos.


Graciela Daglio, Belén González – van a hablar sobre el aprendizaje y las neurociencias

La neurociencias nos están informando sobre el modo en que el cerebro aprende naturalmente y socializar estos resultados nos puede orientar a tomar mejores decisiones en el aula, creando las condiciones para una enseñanza balanceada, variada, apelando a los distintos estilos de aprendizaje de nuestros alumnos, contextualizada, vivencial, inclusiva, donde todas las funciones de ambos hemisferios cerebrales se despierten y aceleren con el aprendizaje.
Las recientes investigaciones y resultados de las neurociencias relacionadas al modo en que aprendemos mejor y la PNL nos ofrecen prácticas estrategias para incrementar la motivación, atención, recuerdo, comprensión y significación.
Este taller aborda el proceso de aprendizaje a través de un conjunto de principios que reconocen como opera y como aprendemos más eficientemente y sugiere estrategias que nos orienten a tomar mejores decisiones sobre el proceso de aprendizaje y enseñanza.

Marisa D'Alessandro - Cambia la forma de ver las cosas y cambiarás las cosas que ves

¿Lo que vemos, lo que sentimos, lo que escuchamos, todo cuanto nos rodea es igual para todos? ¿Qué sucede cuando observamos la misma realidad desde diferentes ángulos? ¿Somos capaces de reconocer que puede haber otros puntos de vista? Si ampliamos el marco de nuestra mirada cambia la perspectiva de la misma. El reencuadre nos da la posibilidad de corrernos unos pasos y llegar a entender mejor a ese alumno imposible, a esos padres imcomprensibles, a esos compañeros tan cerrados, a esos directivos tan testarudos y , por qué no, a nosotros mismos...
Ya lo dijo Marcel Proust hace tiempo "no es cuestión de cambiar el paisaje, sino de mirarlo con otros ojos"...


Rosana M. Fernández Coto - Desarrollando la respons-habilidad emocional

Según Daniel Goleman, el autor del libro La inteligencia emocional, todas nuestras inteligencias y habilidades son amorales (neutras), lo que significa que las podemos poner al servicio de propósitos destructivos o constructivos, según nuestro grado de alfabetismo emocional. Nuestro cociente emocional es el que determina qué uso le damos a nuestras otras inteligencias.
¿Cuántas veces vemos gente con un alto C.I. y que, sin embargo, fracasa en su vida profesional y personal? Más aún, ¿Cuántas veces vemos personas inteligentes reaccionando de forma agresiva y destructiva?
El alfabetismo emocional nos permite manejar nuestras inteligencias en forma positiva lo que nos lleva no sólo al logro de la felicidad individual (mediante el autoconocimiento y la posibilidad de resistir impulsos emocionales) sino también a contribuir al bienestar general ya que desarrolla las competencias sociales como la empatía, y la influencia social.


Amalia Maine - Aquí y Ahora - La Celebración de una decisión.

Un taller donde los participantes exploran conceptos sobre el tiempo cronológico y sus percepciones; toman conciencia del momento presente como único e irrepetible desde el cual se pueden tomar decisiones acerca de cómo vivirlo (en la temporalidad desde la intemporalidad.)

Como seres humanos que desarrollan diferentes roles en diferentes lugares, por momentos, podemos percibir que el tiempo es insuficiente.
Como educadores involucrados en el proceso de formación de nuestros alumnos, por momentos, podemos sentir que la falta de tiempo es un obstáculo para concretar los objetivos planteados.

Con el advenimiento de la Programación Neurolingüística, la auto-observación y el auto-conocimiento que surgen de la presencia testigo toman dimensiones de significativa importancia. Nos permiten “adueñarnos” del momento presente. Así, cuerpo y mente, más conscientes y congruentes, nos invitan a vivir el Aquí y Ahora de la mejor manera posible.

Graciela Marchetti, Gustavo Paz - Creencias Limitantes: ¿Victimas o Protagonistas de nuestra vida?

Cuando pensamos que no tenemos ninguna influencia sobre el resultado de nuestras acciones y que solo dependen de los demás nos convertimos en victimas de nuestro propio destino. Esta manera de actuar nos impide tomar las riendas de nuestras conductas y convertirnos en protagonistas de nuestra propia vida.
El objetivo de este taller es demostrar que esta manera de pensar incluye creencias limitantes o ideas que tomamos como verdad para emplearlas como base para nuestras acciones diarias. El ser capaces de reconocer las creencias limitantes que utilizamos nos permite cambiarlas por creencias facilitadoras que nos ayudan a llegar a nuestras metas o lograr nuestros objetivos.

Maria Herminia Cacheiro - “La Princesa que creía en los cuentos de hadas”: Cómo las creencias modelan las expectativas y potencian o limitan las capacidades y comportamientos. (Un enfoque desde la Programación Neuro-Lingüística)

El entorno escolar es campo fértil para el crecimiento de creencias potenciadoras en el niño y una de las creencias potenciadoras más necesarias para todas las personas, especialmente en el ámbito docente, es “puedo aprender”, ya que no podremos lograr un objetivo si no tenemos la creencia de que el mismo es posible. Esta creencia transforma a este objetivo en algo muy valioso y, cuando damos un valor a algo que no tenemos, ya sea un conocimiento o una habilidad, y además creemos que podemos adquirirlo, lo logramos, ya que las creencias y los valores son el combustible de la motivación. En un entorno escolar adecuado y motivante, ante una cantidad suficiente de experiencias de aprendizaje, el alumno va a adquirir las capacidades necesarias y éstas se van a reflejar en su comportamiento. Asimismo, al contar con el feedback adecuado por parte del docente (cómo le dice lo que le dice), todos estos “niveles lógicos” se alinean, y se va conformando así una creencia potenciadora: “yo puedo”.

En base a lo antedicho, se analiza “La princesa que creía en los cuentos de hadas” de Marcia Grad.

Elsa Bengardino - Líneas de tiempo: cómo vernos a futuro haciendo algo que hoy creemos imposible

Con frecuencia escuchamos frases tales como: "Nunca voy a poder escribir una buena historia", "La matemática no es para mí", "Jamás voy a recordar una fecha histórica", "Veo una computadora y salgo corriendo", "¿Reglas ortográficas, tiempos verbales? ¡imposible!", que no hacen más que exteriorizar las limitaciones que nos impiden utilizar al máximo nuestros recursos internos. El trabajo con líneas de tiempo nos ayuda a levantar estas barreras para que en el futuro no perdamos el tren del conocimiento de aquello para lo que hasta hoy creíamos no tener habilidades y trasladarlo a nuestros alumnos.

Raquel Guterman - El docente, un líder de equipos en el aula.


¿Qué es un equipo y quién es su líder? Un equipo es un sistema, y en cualquier sistema, el elemento con mayor flexibilidad de pensamiento y comportamiento tendrá mayor influencia en tal sistema. Sin embargo, ser flexible requiere de un estado mental que produce los resultados que deseamos sin importar la situación en la que nos encontramos ni el contexto. Es posible alcanzar cualquier meta considerando que todos los recursos que necesitamos se encuentran dentro de nosotros. Aun así, a veces creamos limitaciones para nosotros mismos y los demás que obstaculizan el éxito o el logro de aquellas metas.

Este taller es un viaje a través de los niveles de creencias y valores en el cual podremos liberarnos de aquello que nos limita y desarrollar la flexibilidad necesaria para transformarnos en exitosos líderes, tanto en el aula como docentes o entre colegas como coordinadores.

Todos los recursos necesarios están dentro de nosotros, a través de visualizaciones, submodalidades y metáforas intentaremos descubrir esos recursos.





Monday, 19 May 2008

List of presenters in English and Spanish





FIRST LATINAMERICAN BILINGUAL CONFERENCE OF NEUROLINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING IN EDUCATION

AUGUST 8-9 2008

Buenos Aires


Sessions in English
Susana Carballo - From other people's gardens: How NLP authors helped me improve my teaching skills
Gladys Contrafatto - NLP and Cooperative Learning
Silvana Fiorito, Laura Gallina – Circle Time: A Tool in Staff Meetings
Natalia Haller - I believe in learning adults!
Matilde Machiavello - Multisensory stories
María Teresa Manteo - Art, Cognition and NLP
Gabriela Properzi - Class Management
Patricia Ribot, Ana María Cerdá - NLP and exam preparation
Lilly Spillman - Metaphors: The Resources Are Within Us

Details

Susana Carballo - From other people's gardens: How NLP authors helped me improve my teaching skills

In this workshop I intend to share with my colleagues my experience in teaching English to executives in companies using NLP. I will explain how I use NLP for teaching English and
how I use readings from NLP authors to help students develop as professionals and as human beings.

Gladys Contrafatto - NLP and Cooperative Learning

I would like to share my experience in the use of COOPERATIVE LEARNING in the classroom because I have discovered that NLP is highly present in this methodology.
I believe that by means of Cooperative learning we prepare students for a world that increasingly demands highly developed social skills to deal with greater economic and social interdependence. To succeed, students must learn to communicate and work well with others within a full range of social situations, how to value differences and to become aware of how the use of language makes sense of their experience and how they communicate that experience to others.

Silvana Fiorito, Laura Gallina – Circle Time: A Tool in Staff Meetings
This talk is for teachers and coordinators interested in their own personal and professional development. It will open channels to understand themselves and the people they are working with and for. NLP presuppositions, the VAK, NLP models and techniques such as Life levels, Timelines and Perceptual positions are present in Circle Time depending on its aim. We also include stories, metaphors and songs to bridge gaps between the heart and the mind.


Natalia Haller - I believe in learning adults!
You've got the class planned, the materials and everything set for your grown up students... now, what's ON YOUR MIND? Do you really believe adults can learn or are you a little suspicious?????? In this workshop we'll look into why our beliefs as teachers do have a great impact on learners.


Matilde Machiavello - Multisensory stories
It is my aim to present some of the tools NLP offers to those who have never heard or experienced them, as well as to illustrate through the experience, the range of possibilities to improve communication among students, teachers and peers. By means of stories told, heard, created and recreated, the participants will get a deep insight into the basic NLP presuppositions that will surely open a window through which they will be able to perceive a brand new perspective, and encourage them to move onto their own path of discovery.

María Teresa Manteo - Art, Cognition and NLP

Through art- whatever shape it takes- we can activate abstract thinking skills such as questioning, connecting and synthesis. On the other hand, art offers attractive pathways to engage children in sensory rich contexts, where imagination and ideas run freely facilitating the flow of cognitive quests. NLP is the bridge between these two worlds. Careful messages prepare the mind and the soul to indulge in processes that trigger associations and allow ideas to germinate. Finding the right words to show the way is an art in itself - and this presentation will attempt to explore the kaleidoscope where ideas, color and sound meld to help create mosaics of thought in empowering circles of cognition.


Gabriela Properzi - Class Management

In the workshop I will refer to Classroom Management, the steps a teacher can follow to make the students' profile and integrate contents and learning in a learner centered approach. NLP tools and principles will be used to work more effectively.


Patricia Ribot, Ana María Cerdá - NLP and exam preparation

This presentation aims at sharing with other teachers of English where, when and how to use some NLP strategies and techniques with those students who have decided to sit for a Cambridge Exam and are willing to be relaxed, confident and fluent in the Speaking Paper.

Lilly Spillman - Metaphors: The Resources Are Within Us

The rich vocabulary used in Pablo Neruda’s Ode to the Sea is by all means appealing to the listener’s representational styles: Visual, Auditory and Kinesthetic. Going through its symbolic language, the participants will explore how Metaphors work at all sorts of levels and can be used in a most beneficial way both inside and outside the language classroom.


Presentaciones en castellano


Lucila Barbero de Bermúdez - Posiciones Preceptuales: "Ponerse en el lugar del otro"
Graciela Daglio, Belén González – El aula compatible con el cerebro
Marisa D'Alessandro - Cambia la forma de ver las cosas y cambiarás las cosas que ves
Rosana M. Fernández Coto - Desarrollando la respons-habilidad emocional
Amalia Maine - Aquí y Ahora - La Celebración de una decisión.
Graciela Marchetti, Gustavo Paz - Creencias Limitantes: ¿Victimas o Protagonistas de nuestra vida?

Presentaciones en castellano


Lucila Barbero de Bermúdez - Posiciones Preceptuales: "Ponerse en el lugar del otro"
Muchas veces escuchamos decir esa frase, pero ¿qué significa realmente? En este taller vamos a conocer las distintas posiciones desde las cuales podemos percibir los hechos, y entender como cambian los significados de la comunicación cada vez que variamos el lugar en el que nos ubicamos.


Graciela Daglio, Belén González – El aula compatible con el cerebro

La neurociencias nos están informando sobre el modo en que el cerebro aprende naturalmente y socializar estos resultados nos puede orientar a tomar mejores decisiones en el aula, creando las condiciones para una enseñanza balanceada, variada, apelando a los distintos estilos de aprendizaje de nuestros alumnos, contextualizada, vivencial, inclusiva, donde todas las funciones de ambos hemisferios cerebrales se despierten y aceleren con el aprendizaje.
Las recientes investigaciones y resultados de las neurociencias relacionadas al modo en que aprendemos mejor y la PNL nos ofrecen prácticas estrategias para incrementar la motivación, atención, recuerdo, comprensión y significación.
Este taller aborda el proceso de aprendizaje a través de un conjunto de principios que reconocen como opera y como aprendemos más eficientemente y sugiere estrategias que nos orienten a tomar mejores decisiones sobre el proceso de aprendizaje y enseñanza.

Marisa D'Alessandro - Cambia la forma de ver las cosas y cambiarás las cosas que ves

¿Lo que vemos, lo que sentimos, lo que escuchamos, todo cuanto nos rodea es igual para todos? ¿Qué sucede cuando observamos la misma realidad desde diferentes ángulos? ¿Somos capaces de reconocer que puede haber otros puntos de vista? Si ampliamos el marco de nuestra mirada cambia la perspectiva de la misma. El reencuadre nos da la posibilidad de corrernos unos pasos y llegar a entender mejor a ese alumno imposible, a esos padres imcomprensibles, a esos compañeros tan cerrados, a esos directivos tan testarudos y , por qué no, a nosotros mismos...
Ya lo dijo Marcel Proust hace tiempo "no es cuestión de cambiar el paisaje, sino de mirarlo con otros ojos"...


Rosana M. Fernández Coto - Desarrollando la respons-habilidad emocional

Según Daniel Goleman, el autor del libro La inteligencia emocional, todas nuestras inteligencias y habilidades son amorales (neutras), lo que significa que las podemos poner al servicio de propósitos destructivos o constructivos, según nuestro grado de alfabetismo emocional. Nuestro cociente emocional es el que determina qué uso le damos a nuestras otras inteligencias.
¿Cuántas veces vemos gente con un alto C.I. y que, sin embargo, fracasa en su vida profesional y personal? Más aún, ¿Cuántas veces vemos personas inteligentes reaccionando de forma agresiva y destructiva?
El alfabetismo emocional nos permite manejar nuestras inteligencias en forma positiva lo que nos lleva no sólo al logro de la felicidad individual (mediante el autoconocimiento y la posibilidad de resistir impulsos emocionales) sino también a contribuir al bienestar general ya que desarrolla las competencias sociales como la empatía, y la influencia social.


Amalia Maine - Aquí y Ahora - La Celebración de una decisión.

Un taller donde los participantes exploran conceptos sobre el tiempo cronológico y sus percepciones; toman conciencia del momento presente como único e irrepetible desde el cual se pueden tomar decisiones acerca de cómo vivirlo (en la temporalidad desde la intemporalidad.)

Como seres humanos que desarrollan diferentes roles en diferentes lugares, por momentos, podemos percibir que el tiempo es insuficiente.
Como educadores involucrados en el proceso de formación de nuestros alumnos, por momentos, podemos sentir que la falta de tiempo es un obstáculo para concretar los objetivos planteados.

Con el advenimiento de la Programación Neurolingüística, la auto-observación y el auto-conocimiento que surgen de la presencia testigo toman dimensiones de significativa importancia. Nos permiten “adueñarnos” del momento presente. Así, cuerpo y mente, más conscientes y congruentes, nos invitan a vivir el Aquí y Ahora de la mejor manera posible.

Graciela Marchetti, Gustavo Paz - Creencias Limitantes: ¿Victimas o Protagonistas de nuestra vida?

Cuando pensamos que no tenemos ninguna influencia sobre el resultado de nuestras acciones y que solo dependen de los demás nos convertimos en victimas de nuestro propio destino. Esta manera de actuar nos impide tomar las riendas de nuestras conductas y convertirnos en protagonistas de nuestra propia vida.
El objetivo de este taller es demostrar que esta manera de pensar incluye creencias limitantes o ideas que tomamos como verdad para emplearlas como base para nuestras acciones diarias. El ser capaces de reconocer las creencias limitantes que utilizamos nos permite cambiarlas por creencias facilitadoras que nos ayudan a llegar a nuestras metas o lograr nuestros objetivos.

The Difference that Makes the Difference!


FIRST LATINAMERICAN BILINGUAL CONFERENCE OF NEUROLINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING IN EDUCATION/
PRIMER CONGRESO LATINOAMERICANO BILINGÜE
DE PROGRAMACIÓN NEUROLINGÜÍSTICA
EN EDUCACIÓN

The difference that makes the difference!

AUGUST 8-9 2008

Buenos Aires

This conference also marks the tenth birthday of RT Resourceful Teaching, training teachers in NLP

We, Laura Szmuch and Jamie Duncan, are very happy to present this inaugural conference on NLP in Education which represents the fruit of our work over the last ten years.
Many of our former students will be presenting workshops and sessions at the event showing in just how many diverse ways aspects of Neuro Linguistic Programming can facilitate and enrich our work as teachers. These are practical applications of NLP, not merely descriptions of theory and we are sure that you will go away with lots of simple and effective ideas for you to try out in your teaching and with a taste to learn more.
We are also happy to include presentations from other teachers whose work combines perfectly with the philosophy of NLP, which is based on facilitating the path to excellence.
Another important feature of this event is that it is taking place in Latin America and shows that we do not need to be in the USA or Europe to be able to develop our own ways of using this excellent tool. The workshops you are going to see are born out of the needs that teachers had to find solutions to challenges in their own classrooms or simply to fine tune and enhance their teaching. The fact that we have such a variety of fascinating topics among the list of sessions speaks volumes for the creativity and commitment of the teachers concerned. All home-grown!

We therefore extend a warm invitation to you to come to the conference and discover the world of NLP and the many marvelous ways that it can help us teach and learn and thereby help our students more.

Laura Szmuch and Jamie Duncan
Trainers in NLP

Sunday, 18 May 2008

RT Conference Speakers

We are pleased to announce the first group of speakers at the RT Conference on NLP in Education to be held on 8 and 9 August.

These are the sessions in English to date:
Susana Carballo - From other people's gardens: How NLP authors helped me improve my teaching skills

In this workshop I intend to share with my colleagues my experience in teaching English to executives in companies using NLP. I will explain how I use NLP for teaching English and
how I use readings from NLP authors to help students develop as professionals and as human beings.

Gladys Contrafatto - NLP and Cooperative Learning

I would like to share my experience in the use of COOPERATIVE LEARNING in the classroom because I have discovered that NLP is highly present in this methodology.
I believe that by means of Cooperative learning we prepare students for a world that increasingly demands highly developed social skills to deal with greater economic and social interdependence. To succeed, students must learn to communicate and work well with others within a full range of social situations, how to value differences and to become aware of how the use of language makes sense of their experience and how they communicate that experience to others.

Silvana Fiorito, Laura Gallina – Circle Time: A Tool in Staff Meetings

This talk is for teachers and coordinators interested in their own personal and professional development. It will open channels to understand themselves and the people they are working with and for. NLP presuppositions, the VAK, NLP models and techniques such as Life levels, Timelines and Perceptual positions are present in Circle Time depending on its aim. We also include stories, metaphors and songs to bridge gaps between the heart and the mind.
Natalia Haller - I believe in learning adults!
You've got the class planned, the materials and everything set for your grown up students... now, what's ON YOUR MIND? Do you really believe adults can learn or are you a little suspicious?????? In this workshop we'll look into why our beliefs as teachers do have a great impact on learners.

Matilde Machiavello - Multisensory stories

It is my aim to present some of the tools NLP offers to those who have never heard or experienced them, as well as to illustrate through the experience, the range of possibilities to improve communication among students, teachers and peers. By means of stories told, heard, created and recreated, the participants will get a deep insight into the basic NLP presuppositions that will surely open a window through which they will be able to perceive a brand new perspective, and encourage them to move onto their own path of discovery.

María Teresa Manteo - Art, Cognition and NLP

Through art- whatever shape it takes- we can activate abstract thinking skills such as questioning, connecting and synthesis. On the other hand, art offers attractive pathways to engage children in sensory rich contexts, where imagination and ideas run freely facilitating the flow of cognitive quests. NLP is the bridge between these two worlds. Careful messages prepare the mind and the soul to indulge in processes that trigger associations and allow ideas to germinate. Finding the right words to show the way is an art in itself - and this presentation will attempt to explore the kaleidoscope where ideas, color and sound meld to help create mosaics of thought in empowering circles of cognition.


Gabriela Properzi - Class Management

In the workshop I will refer to Classroom Management, the steps a teacher can follow to make the students' profile and integrate contents and learning in a learner centered approach. NLP tools and principles will be used to work more effectively.


Patricia Ribot, Ana María Cerdá - NLP and exam preparation

This presentation aims at sharing with other teachers of English where, when and how to use some NLP strategies and techniques with those students who have decided to sit for a Cambridge Exam and are willing to be relaxed, confident and fluent in the Speaking Paper.

Lilly Spillman - Metaphors: The Resources Are Within Us

The rich vocabulary used in Pablo Neruda’s Ode to the Sea is by all means appealing to the listener’s representational styles: Visual, Auditory and Kinesthetic. Going through its symbolic language, the participants will explore how Metaphors work at all sorts of levels and can be used in a most beneficial way both inside and outside the language classroom.

Saturday, 26 April 2008

Rt conference launched!

FIRST LATINAMERICAN BILINGUAL CONFERENCE OF NEUROLINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING IN EDUCATION/
PRIMER CONGRESO LATINOAMERICANO BILINGÜE
DE PROGRAMACIÓN NEUROLINGÜÍSTICA
EN EDUCACIÓN


The difference that makes the difference!

AUGUST 8-9 2008

Buenos Aires

This conference also marks the tenth birthday of RT Resourceful Teaching, training teachers in NLP

In this unique event for Latin America, we will be offering a range of sessions showing how NLP can be applied effectively to a wide variety of situations and teaching contexts. In both English and Spanish. You will go home with practical ideas and the experience ‘in the muscle’!

Friday 8 August 18.00
Welcome ceremony with Laura Szmuch, Jamie Duncan and special invited guests
First Plenary
Birthday party!


Saturday 9 August 9.00 – 17.00
Plenary sessions
A wide selection of workshops and displays relating to the use of NLP in teaching and learning.

NB: There will be sessions and plenaries in both English and Spanish

Topics include:
NLP and teacher development
NLP to reach all students
Learning styles
Effective communication
Multisensory storytelling
Levels of learning
Conflict resolution
Classroom management
Mental maps
Learning to learn
and others



Certificates of Attendance will be issued.


For enrolment details contact: rtconference@gmail.com or jamie@resourcefulteaching.com.ar

Sunday, 13 April 2008

Smelling to learn?

Want a better memory? Stop and smell the roses
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor, Reuters

People who want to learn things might do better by simply stopping to smell the roses, researchers reported on Thursday.
German researchers found they could use odors to re-activate new memories in the brains of people while they slept -- and the volunteers remembered better later.
Writing in the journal Science, they said their study showed that memories are indeed consolidated during sleep, and show that smells and perhaps other stimuli can reinforce brain learning pathways.
Jan Born of the University of Lubeck in Germany and colleagues had 74 volunteers learn to play games similar to the game of "Concentration" in which they must find matched pairs of objects or cards by turning only one over at a time.
While doing this task, some of the volunteers inhaled the scent of roses. The volunteers then agreed to sleep inside an MRI tube. Functional magnetic resonance imaging was used to "watch" their brains while they slept.
At various stages during sleep, Born's team wafted in the same scent of roses.
The volunteers were tested again the next day on what they had learned. "After the odor night, participants remembered 97.2 percent of the card pairs they had learned before sleep," the researchers wrote.
But they only remembered 86 percent of the pairs if they did not get the rose smell while sleeping.
And the stage of sleep was important too, the researchers said in a finding that will add to the debate over whether people "learn" in their sleep the way some animals have been shown to.
Research has shown, for example, that rats learning a new maze will rehearse their movements during sleep, and that songbirds rehearse their songs.
Born's team said the scent improved learning when it was administered during slow-wave sleep, but had no effect during rapid eye movement or REM sleep.
The MRI showed that the hippocampus, the part of the brain associated with learning new things, was activated when the odor was wafted over the volunteers during slow wave sleep.

This article came from Reuters

http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSN0835573820070309?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=0&sp=true

Friday, 11 April 2008

CALL FOR PAPERS

RESOURCEFUL TEACHING

10TH ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE
AUGUST 8-9 2008

First Latin American Conference in NLP for Education

CALL FOR PAPERS


To celebrate our tenth birthday, we have decided to hold a conference to mark the moment and to show the public what we have all achieved applying NLP to our work in Education.

We are therefore launching a Call for Papers for those who would like to participate by submitting a proposal for a workshop at the conference.


Sessions can be given in English or in Spanish as we intend to make this a bilingual event reaching out as well to the teaching community. Each workshop will be of one hour and there may be the possibility of repeating them.

Requirements for presenters:
Holds a recognized certificate as a Practitioner in NLP or have completed a Practitioner training with us.
To present in English, you must be a graduate of a recognized Teachers College or be a native speaker.

First step: Send us an abstract of 200 words explaining
a) what you wish to present
b) describing how it represents the application of NLP to Education
c) cite any relevant academic sources relevant to the presentation
d) indicate in general terms how you will go about the presentation


Deadline for papers 10 May 2008
Send to: jamiearg@gmail.com
lauraszmuch@gmail.com

Jamie and Laura
April 2008