I will speaking at XPToronto on Tuesday May 18th at 7pm and Quebec City on the following evening at 6pm. Hopefully I can visit Montreal and Waterloo another time.

Learning Best Approaches for Your Brain

Do you wonder why people don’t understand the idea you’re trying to get across in a meeting? Are you mentoring another developer and struggling to understand why the still don’t get it? Do you run training courses and wonder why the attendees only learn 10% of the material. All of us are teachers whether as informal mentors, coaches, trainers or parents. Yet only professional educators receive training in this area.

Only Twenty years ago most people in the world of neuroscience believed that the connections between the neurons in your brain were fixed by the time you were a teenager (or even younger)[1]. Now we understand that our wiring continues to change (even new neurons can grow) as we grow older. It’s just the rate of change that slows down. This is called Neuroplasticity, the discoveries around it are what make this presentation possible.

To find out more come attend the sessions. Can’t make it? Join me at Agile2010.