"The Total Learning Environment™ model provides a wholistic context for learning which integrates the mental, physical and emotional aspects of the human experience with clinical and scientific research, as well as proven methodology for accelerating and maximizing the learning process."

- Dr. Cheryl L. Clark, PhD

At the EQ ADVANTAGE™ our unique training style is based on the Total Learning Environment methodology that is outlined below - yet another EQ SMART™ distinction that guarantees maximized learning for every participant.

BEYOND THE "GAME"
Our unique Total Learning Environment™ (TLE), provides a step-by-step process which goes beyond the typical concept of providing interactive or accelerated learning through the use of "games". All aspects of the learning environment are orchestrated to maximize the participants' focus on and value received from the learning opportunities available.

Adult learning research indicates as much as 80% of the information presented in traditional training formats is lost within 72 hours. In a TLE, participants experience an environment where the answers come from "within" themselves. The guided learning process ensures the learnings are "owned" and anchored into each individual’s reality.

We integrate concepts and strategies that cross the realm of science, psychology, education, physiology, business and social theory to produce a context that appeals to the very heart of the human experience.

The exciting by-product of this unique learning environment is that participants discover a renewed love for the learning process. Fear of change is reduced and the focus on possibilities (vs. impossibilities) grows exponentially.

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THE PROCESS CONTINUUM
The Set-Up prepares participants for an activity, whether it be through an environment simulation, role playing or group work.

The Experience is provided by the activity. In the TLE model, activities are skillfully constructed to allow habitual or conditioned responses that are usually sub-conscious or beyond our awareness to come to the surface in a safe and fun environment.

The Debrief is the most critical part of successfully moving individuals and organizations forward with respect to developing EQ skills in the "debrief." During the debrief, participants are guided through a reconstructing of the activity in a manner which allows them to clearly observe their behaviours while making an objective assessment to determine which of those behaviours were counter-productive to their success.

This observation is then related directly back to what occurs in their real life and how their results may be linked to their conditioned responses. New strategies and opportunities for skill development are introduced and are reinforced through more activity and practice.

The Process Continues as new understandings/skills are built by exposing layers of behaviors that are not getting the desired results and replacing them with new strategies. The process continues by adding the next level of experience/debrief after the initial step and continuing this process until the lessons and new skills are fully learned and ready to be integrated into real life.

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Influences
The development of our unique Total Learning EnvironmentTM model has been influenced by many sources, including the most current research in understanding the human brain and learning process, through to traditional physics and science based research such as chaos theory and the work of R. Buckminster Fuller. The following list covers some of the specific bodies of work, as well as general categories of influence.

• Emotional Intelligence Research (Goleman/Cherniss/Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence)
• Chaos Theory
• Theory of Dissipative Structure (Ilya Prigogine)
• Reality Therapy (William Glasser, MD)
• Family Therapy Methodology (Virginia Satir)
• Neuro Linguistic Programming
• Synergetics of R. Buckminster Fuller
• 12 Degrees of Freedom - Stability in Universe (R. Buckminste Fuller, interpreted by Cheryl L. Clark)
• Choice Theory (William Glasser, MD)
  
• Accelerated Learning Methodology
• Total Quality Methodology (Edwards Demming)
• Quantum Learning Methodology (Bobbi DePorter)
• Superlearning (Giorgi Lasonov)
• MindStyles (Anthony Gregorc, PhD.)
• Learning Styles (Cynthia Ulrich Tobias)
• Non-Violent Communication (Marshall Rosenberg)
• Neural Linguistic Programming
• Methodology for Influencing with Integrity (Genie LaBorde)
• Thinking Strategies (Edward deBono)
• Brain Based Teaching (Eric Jensen)
• Quantuum Teaching (DePorter, Singer)
• Living Systems Theory
• Imaginal Education
• Yoga and Meditation
• Holistic Health
• Transactional Analysis
• Quality Schools (William Glasser, MD)
• Intrinsic Motivation Strategies (Alfie Kohn)

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