Mind Mapping

• To show students practical ways to create mind-mapped notes
• To help students better organise their thoughts
• To boost understanding and recall
• To encourage creativity
• To build robust planning skills

Mind Mapping is an effective multisensory learning strategy. The skills learned in this workshop will help to develop both creative and analytical thought patterns.

Students will leave the sessions with better recall and practical, transferable tools that can help them make fast and effective notes, plan better and understand more complex information.

Our mind mapping workshop is run as a presentation with practical elements and shows students how to create and use mind maps to enhance learning and recall.

The workshop is run as a standalone session, but it can be combined effectively with other workshops to create a more sustained programme of intervention. Each workshop can be extended to incorporate further practical work and explore the creative and analytical aspects of the tool.

This Mind Mapping workshop can be easily tailored for all abilities from Key Stage 2 and above and is available throughout the academic year.

The standard Mind Mapping course includes:

• Reading for keywords
• Methods for encapsulation
• Forming branching ideas
• Effective mind map planning
• Creating mind maps using colour
• Shaping a growing mind map

Students leave the Mind Mapping course with:

• The skills to create clear and effective mind maps
• An understanding of the reason and purpose behind connecting thoughts in this way
• Practical techniques to help learn and retain information
• A new way to access their creativity and imagination to make learning fun, more engaging and more effective
• Improved confidence in communicating their ideas to others

We recommend sitting students around tables in groups of four to six in a spacious room that is conducive to learning.

Your Positively You event can be broken down as follows, depending on your timetable:

• 4 x 1-hour workshops
• 3 x 80-minute workshops
• 2 x 2-hour workshops

Each workshop can accommodate no more than 100 different students.

Mind Mapping can be delivered face-to-face or online.

“I can use the mind maps and other techniques to improve my grades. It was engaging and loads of fun, everyone got stuck in and the presenter was good.” Student