Duration
MIND MAPPING WORKSHOP
2 days
OVERVIEW
Mind mapping starts with a main idea in the center of your mind map. Create unlimited subtopics and explore your thoughts, color coding for clarity and style. As your map takes shape, add context to topics with attachments, embedded media and more. The training features guide you through your first mind maps onto maximum creativity. Mind mapping is a powerful technique that helps you visualize your thoughts and communicate them to others.
Mind maps can store and structure vast amounts of information. They display hierarchy, show relationships between ideas and enable you to see the “big picture” at a glance. This also makes mind mapping the ideal method for presentations, group work and project planning. Mind mapping gets your creative juices flowing and can inspire you to refine unformed ideas or discover new concepts. That is because mind maps use images and keywords to create new associations in your brain, which you can also transcribe with incredible speed. A mind map is a tool for the brain that captures the thinking that goes on inside your head.
This lecture shows you the quality of the Mind Maps that you can expect to achieve once you've fully participated in and completed the course (including doing all the practice exercises and asking for feedback where necessary). The course shows you how to create great mind maps with pen and paper (so we are not using any proprietary mind mapping software).
There are several reasons for this: one is that we don’t want to struggle with learning both how to do mind mapping whilst also learning how to navigate particular software (and all software is different) and second we want to get the ‘feel’ of the technique and this is not easily achieved with computer interfaces. We do however create some of the mind maps on this course using the iPad and other electronic devices which use drawing programs where we can still get the 'feel' of the technique.
BENEFITS
- How to quickly organize thoughts, ideas or goals using mind maps
- How to quickly plan an event, a speech, an article, a business, or a marketing plan
- How to rehearse and deliver a speech without reading from notes- mind mapping is particularly good for rehearsing your talks and presentations
- How mind mapping gives clarity to your work and helps you to be clear in your thinking, helping you see the wood for the trees
- How to think 'outside of the box' and how mind mapping provides the scaffolding for a different set of mental processes
- How and Why Mind mapping accelerates the learning & understanding of new information
- How when studying for professional exams, or CPD, mind mapping reduces the time to learn new material
- At course completion you'll be confident creating mind maps & showing others the basic concepts
Module 1 - Introduction to Mind Mapping
- Definition of Mind Mapping
- The Benefits of Mind Mapping
- Mind Map a Holiday
- The 4 Stages of Learning Anything New
- Learning about Your Brain
- Mind mapping 'How to Mind Map'
Module 2 - Why Mind Mapping Works
- Different Routes to Information
- Unique and Unforgettable
- Mind mapping as a Brain Friendly Technique
- Information dimension and density
- A picture Says More Than a Thousand Words
- Freedom and flexibility with mind maps at all
- The Basic Rules
- Branches
- Keywords
Module 3 - Preparing Talks & Lectures using Mind Maps
- Preparing Lecture
- Marshalling initial thoughts
- Determining the main themes
- Adding detail
- Testing the Mind Map
- Handling text with mind mapping
- Converting Text to Sentences in to a mind map
- Scientific Definitions as a mind map
- Block Text or Mind Map
- Characteristics of talks, lectures and meetings
- Color and symbol codes
- Informative conversations
Module 4 - Mind mapping Software (Online site) & Application
- Selecting an idea / project title
- Performing brainstorming
- Identifying the branches and keywords
- Building mind map
NOTEActivities on high team interaction and role-plays will be incorporated during training session with all participants to further facilitate and strengthen candidates understanding on Design Thinking concepts and methodology in an overall manner.
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.