
The
Beyond-Einstein/Socratic Training
Special pre-conference event kicking
off the
21st Annual Double Festival,
at a private facility in Pasadena, Maryland.
Wednesday-Friday, May 14-16, 2014
8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Overview
These three intensive days will be an adventure in using various
problem-solving techniques on a variety of problems worth solving.
Astonish yourself! Learn how to draw easily on far more than you knew
you have — and at the same time resolve some of the issues in
your work, your life, and all around you.
This comprehensive, general
training in Project Renaissance methods includes the latest discoveries in
techniques for problem-solving and opportunity seizing; accelerated
learning (in which you learn how to easily get more knowledge and
understanding from your studies than your teachers and text authors put
into them!); self-discovery, open-ended discovery, innovation; our
signature process Image-Streaming; High Thinktank; Borrowed Genius; and
our redevelopment of 2400-year-old techniques which, in themselves, may
prove to be a substantial answer to much of the human situation.
We draw directly on two historic
geniuses
— Albert Einstein, whose name became a household word synonymous
with “genius,” who created and sought to teach his Deep
Thought Discovery method which had taught him Relativity — and
the method and inquiry system of the greatest Athenian, Socrates, whose
method lit up nearly all of late classical Greece and was a main
vehicle for the development of the great European Renaissance. The
third genius you will discover is you yourself. You are more than you
thought you were. You are brighter than you think! Discover this
through powerful but practical hands-on experiences professionally
facilitated, and in very good company!
Scope of the training — somewhat
resembles the scope of what you find in looking through this website.
Once you start paying attention to your own first-hand perceptions and
awarenesses, many very good things become apparent to you. However wide
the scope and variety of Project Renaissance techniques, they all help
you develop systematic ways of discovering practical opportunities and
discovering life itself through your own independent first-hand
perceptions.
Though these methods will be
taught in their problem-solving application, you can then use them also
for a wide range of other purposes, including enhanced/accelerated
learning, self-discovery, innovation, invention, and building your
performance and general capabilities in the arts, in sports,
interpersonally, in your work, intellectually, and generally.
The validity of these methods has
been nicely supported by the results
of the use of their form as teaching methods, by
St. Andrew's Country Day School in Buffalo, NY.
The Unfolding, Drawing-Out
Process
Historic Socratic Method led to such miracle leaps of understanding
that its practitioners thought all knowledge was already within each of
us. We've discovered the key psychological and physical principles
behind what made Socratic Method so very productive of genius. Learn
here new, easy, effortless and even more powerful ways than the
historic method, to Socratize one another, your staff, your friends and
co-workers, your family — and even yourself!
Engaging Your More Sensitive
Faculties
Einstein's "Deep Thought" discovery technique was but the tip of an
iceberg. (If he'd had the new versions of his own method, he'd have
found that elusive unified field theory!) Better still, "you don't have
to be an Einstein" to easily and productively use these new forms, to
discover your own great answers and to make your own discoveries. That
99.99% of your brain and perceptual faculties which were out of reach,
no longer are.
This aspect of the workshop
features basic
training in one of our signature processes, Image-Streaming, which has
proven so broadly useful that a number of other disciplines and authors
have picked it up and added it to their
own programs.
Part of this session will in fact serve as a clinic in the skills of
Image-Streaming and of making sense of the meaning of the images which
result.
"Use it or lose it"
You absolutely no longer need to be gradually losing it, and much of
what you thought was gone, isn't!
Other Direct Avenues
Explore with us also some of the other, highly various ways to work
directly with features of the brain, senses and physiology to improve
the quality of ability, performance and experience.
A Few of the Specifics
- Participants will discover
effective answers of their own to a wide range of their most difficult
questions, problems and issues.
- Participants
will gain understandings and skills which enable them to go on making
their breakthroughs far beyond the walls of this intensive "hands-on"
training.
- Participants will acquire new ways
and skills and ranges of learning — ways to build, almost
effortlessly, years' worth of proficiency in only days in almost any
topic, subject or skill (including athletic skills, artistic skills,
intellectual skills, human interactive skills), and with richer,
greater depth of understanding and ease of retention. These are not
memory techniques — their focus is truly understanding.
- Become able to continue making breakthroughs without end in
your work
and career. Acquire skills and practices of creativity and ingenuity
which let you literally transform almost any situation you address,
immediately and for the long term.
- For those
so inclined, there are even ways to pursue, far more effectively,
technical invention and scientific discovery. See some of these ways
laid out in that remarkable book, Discovering
The Obvious: Techniques of Original, Inspired Scientific Discovery,
Technical Invention, and Innovation.
We'll be using more effective tools
for positively exploring the human dimension. (This, though, is not a
therapy course. We are informal but not unbuttoned.) Discover a lot of
solid reasons to feel far better about yourself. This is not a
self-esteem program where everyone goes around telling you how
wonderful you are. Instead you simply discover that fact for yourself,
in terms of what you are accomplishing.
Socrateur
Main facilitator of
this Beyond-Einstein Training intensive is Win Wenger, Ph.D., founder
of this program and of Project Renaissance and discoverer of the now
widely-practiced Image-Streaming technique. With four
decades of service in education, training and research, Win has also
written and published 54 books, many of them available on this website. He has authored such
international favorites as How To Increase Your Intelligence
(soon re-appearing in a new edition); Beyond Teaching And Learning;
the aforementioned Discovering The Obvious, and co-authored The
Einstein Factor. He also has co-authored, with PhotoReading's
creator Paul Scheele, the great course on tapes and CDs, The Genius
Code.
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