Training

Our intensive language training method exploits, as an essential component, audio-visual relaxation techniques that serve as preparation for each practical training unit by enabling what is named a “mentally active state”.

The Mindstorm Method is a direct result of research into and development of “Super Learning”. Super Learning, however, is based solely on audio data input: i.e. by hearing.

The Alpha Method addresses all five senses (“the body never forgets”), and thus tailors the learning process to how the brain actually functions.

Language Training

Language training lessons consist of four phases.

• Intro-Phase
• Active-Phase
• Alpha-Phase
• Refresher-Phase

Intro-Phase: Each lesson begins with the Mindstorm Intro-Phase. In this phase our trainers actively and playfully introduce the lesson’s vocabulary to participants. Each vocabulary data set is presented, enounced, repeated and set into context.

Active-Phase: In the second phase the vocabulary is again presented in the form of a memorable story and experienced through active role-plays and other forms of presentation. The active involvement of participants in the story and in presentation activates a greater number of cerebral connections than as with other learning techniques.

In advanced levels, participants create their own stories, plays and presentations. These additional experiences create a personal connection with the vocabulary and thus intensify the brain’s ability to recall the subject data.

Alpha-Phase: In the third phase, the Mindstorm Language Cinema enables the multi-sensory absorption of the subject vocabulary in a mentally active state of relaxation. Participants recline on comfortable easy-chairs in a cinema-like atmosphere. Activating colors are projected on a wall, and a voice advises breathing technique. Relaxing music plays in the background.

This process places the brain in the mentally active Alpha State. Subject words and entire phrases are then projected on the wall (video) and recited by voice (audio). In this state, data is directly transferred into and anchored in the brain’s long-term memory.

Refresher-Phase: The last phase serves to transfer learning content into the brain’s active vocabulary.

The data newly learned in the previous phases are directly recalled from long-term memory and specifically employed by playfully integrating several activity-oriented elements in a fun and stress-free manner.