“What activities do you have to introduce people to Whole Brain Thinking?”

A client asked me this just yesterday. She wanted to introduce this particular group to Whole Brain Thinking in two sessions. In the first session she wanted to give them a general understanding of Whole Brain Thinking and how they could start using it at work and home. Then, after a period of some 6 months, she wanted to follow up with having them complete the HBDI and get their own profiles back.

She also wanted the first session to be fun and interactive.

WE talked about a lot of ideas. The main ones were:

Using the Brain mat to teach the Whole Brain Model.
Playing Diversity to develop their understanding.
Using Chat about as a way of building their communication skills.
Using the new activity, The Allocator, to get them to understand which thinking styles belonged where

And finally using the all-new HBDI Profile Board to estimate there profiles and discusses the implications with others.

If you have a session coming up and want some new and exciting activities, drop me a note. I think I can help.

Michael

This is exciting! And the beginning of something special.

Julia Atkin is well known in Australia and New Zealand for her work in Education. She is especially well known for her approach to learning known as ‘Integral learning’.

This Education specific Certification workshop fully integrates both Whole Brain Teaching and Learning and Integral Learning.

It is the next step of a partnership between Julia Atkin and Herrmann International - and is potentially taking the very best of both to educators across the globe.

Check back next week (April 6-9) for regular updates on the workshop and the learnings that come out of it.

Michael

We are proud to announce the global release of the new HBDI® Package. It will be available throughout Asia by the end of April 2010.

The HBDI Profile Package has been re-designed to reflect a contemporary look and feel, with the convenience of one booklet instead of four.

Key features of the new package include:

NOTE: This update only includes the HBDI Profile Folder and HBDI Interpretation Booklet, all report pages will remain the same.

I had been a public servant for 9 years. I had a permanent position, a good salary and a guaranteed superannuation scheme. When then did I come home one day and say’ “I’m leaving! I am going to set myself up as an innovation consultant and see how I go!”

In HBDI terms, I am 155 in the Yellow quadrant. There was nothing wrong in what I said.

My wife, Anny, is 120 in the Green quadrant. Needless to say her reaction was a little different. It was an interesting discussion.

My guess is that we are not the first couple to have such a discussion.

In our webinar next week, Susie Weller and I will be talking about how you can effectively deal with these, and similar situation. Stay tuned.

Michael

Why not use the Whole Brain® model to avoid collisions.

Susie Weller, author of the book ‘Why Don’t You Understand? Improve Family Communication with the 4 Thinking Styles’ (2009, Parenting Press), has a powerful Whole Brain® framework for helping couples think about priorities and how to handle potential conflicts.
She talks about the Head, Hands, Heart and Hopes - and ties it nicely into Whole Brain® thinking.

Catch the webinar, When world’s collide, and find out more.

The Whole Brain Model provides a wonderful framework to understand your worlds.
The A quadrant represents your Professional world.
The B quadrant represents the practicalities.
The C quadrant your passions.
The D quadrant your possibilities.

Completing a ‘Thinkabout’ and looking at how everything connects can be a great way of thinking your way out of a potential collision.

Susie will be talking about this more during our up coming webinar - When World’s Collide, March 23 at 12 noon, Sydney time.