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Making it Happen (MiH)

 

Making it Happen (MiH)If you want to:

  • build your self-belief and confidence
  • sort out your priorities
  • help others be more positive
  • learn the secrets of motivating yourself and others

 

and you want to:

  • restore enthusiasm for learning
  • grasp opportunities when they come by
  • restore balance in your life
  • take control

 

then Making It Happen will get you going!

 

Making It Happen

MiH is a personal insight programme designed for those who want to revive their enthusiasm and restore their sense of self-worth.

 

  • Teachers: MiH helps you be positive about the worth of your role, strong in the face of challenge and a source of energy for others.
  • Parents: MiH helps you seek and secure balance and space in your life.
  • Managers: MiH helps you with the wisdom to identify your vision and the purpose to achieve it.
  • Performers: MiH gives you goal-setting, affirmation and visualisation techniques, and tools for self-discipline

 

For those of you who are just curious, MiH will give you insights into the habits of mind of yourself and others and leave you smarter as a result

Making it Happen is a modular development experience of nine units. You learn in small groups with an experienced trainer using video case studies and written exercises.

 

The programme:

  • identifies balance and imbalance in your life
  • helps you make sense of ups and downs
  • shows you possible alternatives
  • gives an alternative to negative self talk and limiting belief
  • values your unique strengths
  • shares how others secured direction to their lives
  • gives you techniques with which to work towards your own goals
  • recognises difference, provides confidentiality and offers respect
  • starts you going from where you are, to where you want to be
  • provides solutions - not excuses

 

MiH: the Personal Insight Programme
MiH is a personal insight programme which provides intelligent tools to help you understand patterns of behaviour in your life and, should you wish to, change those patterns for the better. MiH will not make you richer or more influential, but it will help you become more insightful, particularly about yourself. MiH draws from diverse perspectives, it recognises the complexity of any personal change and has a powerful learning model embedded throughout.

 

Making it Happen is a personal 'insight' programme. We use the word insight because change must come from within. To be meaningful and lasting, a programme of training can do no more than help participants look at themselves afresh. MiH gives you tools and perspectives to look again at the habits of mind and their related behaviours which have been developed over the years and, should you wish to, make changes to those habits.

 

Talking your language
MiH is strongly rooted in the science of human motivation and learning. However, it is designed to be accessible to any adult who wants to make positive changes in their life. We don't use jargon, and we never make things seem more complicated than they need to be. If you simply want to know how to change your life for the better, we'll provide you with the tools without burdening you with the science.

 

Real lives
We provide six different case studies as well as additional support material. The stories told through the case studies are those of adults who have struggled with significant change at some point in their life. We use the case studies as source video material for the programme. The variety of perspectives grounds our programme in everyday reality.

 

Uses proven learning methods
MiH was originated and designed by Alistair Smith who is recognised as the UK's leading trainer in accelerated and brain-based learning. The MiH programme models the learning methods and techniques that Alistair has developed. It uses a 4-Stage Learning Cycle both for the design and the delivery of the programme. The learning methods have been proven to work, and are now used with great success in training establishments, schools and colleges throughout the world. Through these methods, you will find the programme engaging and entertaining, and the content easy to assimilate.

 

Cross-cultural outlook
Wherever you work and live, you will find that MiH takes into account the needs and challenges of your area. The programme has been assembled by a team of highly experienced practitioners, who have themselves lived and worked in diverse environments. They bring to the programme a rich breadth of experience which reflects the complexity of life in modern Britain.

 

Iintelligent, relevant exercises
The programme is interspersed with a variety of exercises and activities. These have been carefully designed to link directly to the learning points of the programme. Any activity in which you take part will contribute directly to your learning.

 

Leading-edge research
At Alite we make leading-edge research accessible to a wide audience. The programme is based on an up-to-the-minute understanding of the psychology of motivation and of thought. We do not believe that any development programme should be a static, finished composition - it evolves and develops to take account of the results of current research.

 

Flexible, modular structure
MiH consists of nine modules, each lasting approximately 90 minutes. They can be taken as a 3 day course, or as nine separate sessions. Some organisations may prefer to run one twilight session per week for 9 weeks. Each module is supported by a video component through which our case studies are presented.

 

Easily transferred from the training room into your life
We make sure that your learning does not stop when you leave the training room. As a participant on the programme you will receive the tools to help you to put the techniques into practice straight away.

 

Principles of Learning

 

We believe learning:

  • is about seeking and securing connections
  • evolves through exploration, mimicry and rehearsal
  • occurs when we scaffold high cognitive challenge and negotiate risk
  • requires optimism about realisable learner goals
  • occurs through the senses
  • is socially constructed with language as its medium
  • thrives on immediate performance feedback and space for reflection
  • benefits from a view that intelligence is neither fixed nor inherited but complex, modifiable and multiple
  • involves the active engagement of different memory systems
  • requires rehearsal in a variety of situations

 

Our programmes

  • can be easily accessed
  • use a range of learner centred methods
  • build from a secure emotional base
  • involve meaningful individual action planning
  • utilise different learning media
  • involve the exchange of ideas in a variety of groupings
  • transfer learning from the classroom to everyday life
  • start from the premise that everyone is unique and has a valuable contribution to make
  • are distinctive and memorable
  • use a variety of review techniques throughout

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