Improving Your Memory

Using More of the Capacity You Already Have

Your memory helps you to shape your understanding of your present, and your application of your memories helps you to shape your future. How well your memory works has a direct impact on how much you get done in a day and the quality of your work.

Your memory is a window into the health of your brain, how you care for it, and how you use it. It also helps to define who you are – for yourself and for those around you such as family members, friends, colleagues and others.

This very engaging, interactive, and memorable workshop is about your memory – how it works, how you can better use your recall capacity, and much more. We guarantee you’ll remember it for years to come!

Learning outcomes

At the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Make more informed day-to-day decisions about managing your sleep, your nutrition, your exercise, and other aspects of your routine that impact your brain fitness and memory
• Use more of the memory capacity you already have to handle more information in less time, enjoy better understanding, and achieve better results
• Make better decisions to safeguard your longer-term brain fitness and its memory capacity
• Help your family members, friends and colleagues to do the same
• Train more of your memory capacity to work more effectively for you
• Implement your personal memory-improvement action plan

Workshop topics

What do you want to remember?

• Names, numbers, frameworks, conversations, lists, principles, and more
• Child-care, Elder-care, Self-care

How does your memory work?

• Why you can remember the words to a song or advertising jingle (when you don’t even want to), and why you can get to the bottom of a page in a book and have no idea what you read.
• What remembering and not remembering have in common
• How your emotions (including stress) and attention impact your memory
• Differentiation and why it’s important
• What’s happening with your memories while you’re sleeping
• How understanding and personal meaning affect your memory
• How advertisers teach your brain to remember their messages

Increase your capacity to remember

• Managing your sleep, exercise and nutrition to help improve your memory
• Help your brain to grow new brain cells … or not
• Using music and other sensory inputs to help improve your memory

Leverage your capacity … to remember more easily

• Using more of your visual processing capability to help you remember better
• Several easy-to-learn, easy-to-use methods to help you remember more
• Managing your risk factors as your brain ages
• Take home the power of state management – what it is, why it matters, how to use it