Idea Mapping

In my June 21, 2016 posting I stated that next week’s Idea Mapping Workshop would be held in Livonia. A few weeks ago I changed the venue to Northville Square in Northville, MI just a few doors down from my husbands office – NastGroup Financial. We have a great group of people joining in on […]

Last week I taught another 2-day Idea Mapping Workshop in Long Beach, CA for Boeing. One of the favorite activities outside of the idea mapping is around teaching participants to draw a portrait of a human face using some of the techniques taught by Betty Edwards (author of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain). […]

Idea Mapping Workshop Flier – Livonia 2016.doc Idea Mapping is a powerful whole-brained visual thinking tool that enhances memory, note taking skills, thought organization, planning, and communication.  It uses color, keywords, lines, and images to connect thoughts associatively.  Idea Maps engage both sides of the brain resulting in the ability to see a picture of […]

Barb Chan attended one of my 2-day Idea Mapping Workshops at Boeing last month. This was one of the idea maps she created during class. It is about the Orange-Crowned Warbler’s habitats, migration, behaviors, characteristic, and foods. On the Behaviors branch you’ll see Barb drew a pair of boxing gloves. This represents how the bird defends its […]

Thought you would enjoy seeing some photos from the two 2-day Idea Mapping Workshops I taught in Renton, WA April 12-15, 2016  for Boeing employees. Good time had by all as we learned to juggle, draw, improve our memories, play with toys, share Idea Maps and learn how to learn. If you would like to […]

On Friday I shared the name tents drawn by some of the Boeing learners who attended my 2-day Idea Mapping workshop last week. If you haven’t had the chance to guess their names, go to Friday’s post before looking the answers. Here are the answers to the names in order: Larry, Mike, Wendy (One “D”), Christine, Tom, […]

Here’s a second brain game for you from last week’s workshops at Boeing! Can you guess these names? Last week I taught two 2-day Idea Mapping Workshops for Boeing in Renton, WA. For the 24,000+ of you who have been through this workshop, you know the class starts out immediately with an activity similar to the game […]

Yesterday I shared the name tents drawn by some of the Boeing learners who attended my 2-day Idea Mapping workshop last week. If you haven’t had the chance to guess their names, go to yesterday’s post before looking the answers. Here are the answers to the names in order: Barbara, Minh, Doug, Bruce, Jackie, Charley, […]

Here’s a brain game for you! Can you guess these names? Last week I taught two 2-day Idea Mapping Workshops for Boeing in Renton, WA. For those of you who have been through this workshop, you know the class starts out immediately with an activity similar to the game of Concentration. Each workshop participant is asked to […]

Last week I shared 6 creative name tents from my 2-day Boeing Idea Mapping Workshop in St. Louis on March 8-9, 2016. For details on this brain game see my post from March 15, 2016. Here are the answers to those names in order: Patrick, Adam, Cheryl, Telaina, Andrea, and Bill! Thanks for playing along:)