![]() How do you want your learners to feel? Engaged? Enthusiastic? Energised? Confident? Willing to have a go? When our learners come to our learning and development programs we want them to learn. This sounds like I’m stating the obvious and I have seen many trainers and facilitators focus on the content too much and assume that the learners are in the right emotional state for learning, they’re ready to go. So they launch head first in to the content via a fairly standard opening eg these are the objectives, this is the agenda, here are the ground rules…now lets get started. But creating a true learning environment is not as simple as that. People are emotional beings. They lead busy lives and are usually juggling multiple competing priorities. We want to get to: the learner’s executive brain, their prefrontal cortex
Our emotional brain, the limbic system. Our emotional brain, the limbic system, is an ancient part of the human brain. It supports a variety of functions including emotion, behavior, motivation, long-term memory and olfaction. Some basics about the Limbic system:
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