Brain Hemisphere Research As its name suggests - puts the brain first. It takes a revolutionary approach to teaching and learning because it starts with what the brain can do already, celebrating its power to produce phenomenal results, and working to harness that power to achieve specific learning goals. It opens up incredible possibilities for anyone who embarks upon its unique journey of discovery because BHR utilises the brain’s natural techniques, activating and training them at the same time as using them to learn. In this way, learning is far more than data-gathering and processing. It becomes a holistic process of self improvement, building knowledge and skills and confidence in every aspect of the brain’s performance, and changing the way a child thinks and learns forever.

The innovative Whole Mind Techniques help both side of the brain to work together<br />
Brain Hemisphere Research: the name reveals so much. For too long education worked on just one hemisphere of the brain, the half we call the Left, specialising in the Logical: words, numbers, decisions, structure, process, detail. Real learning can only happen when the Right side is brought in, incorporating colour, story, dreams, fun, play, feelings, and the bigger picture. The two hemispheres need to be connected, giving structure to creative thinking and shape and direction to imagination and invention.

It’s how history’s greatest brains have always worked. Leonardo da Vinci could draw detailed diagrams and sensible, logical designs, but he combined them with cartoons and flights of fancy. Albert Einstein understood the technical considerations at every stage of his thinking, but he could only make the huge leaps of understanding by bringing in the power and flexibility of his wonderful imagination. It is the combination that works the magic: using the whole mind to achieve the highest success.

The strategies spread through all the child’s learning, developing creativity to achieve ultimate academic success<br />
The BHR approach incorporates this level of connected thinking at every stage of its programs. It is a particularly powerful approach because it puts whole mind techniques into the teaching itself. Children are not simply required to use their brains properly to succeed: the teaching exercises make it unavoidable, a natural aspect of learning – and learning anything, be it English or mathematics, Chinese or art. Each program, tailored to a specific subject and age-group, brings together a range of strategies that support the brain working at its best. Children are helped to form foundations on which knowledge can be built; mental frameworks to help them connect new information in the most comfortable ways. The learning process is fast and dynamic, asking intriguing questions that stimulate interest and quickly create familiarity with new material. The programs emphasize understanding, the ability to use knowledge sensibly, and the key techniques for organising and processing even the largest and most complex sets of information.

As well as having key aspects of learning that connect us all, human beings also how preferences towards different learning styles. Education has been slow to grasp this, tending to group all children together and to teach in ways that allow only some pupils to engage with the teaching at any one time. But BHR counteracts this with the range of approaches woven into each program. Children will find techniques that suit them best; but, crucially, they will also be encouraged to move out of their comfort zone and improve the learning techniques that are not so well developed. Each key learning strategy is activated, used and developed throughout BHR’s progressive programs of study.

Learning supported by the latest Brainwave Science<br />
The latest brainwave technology allows BHR to develop learning that matches not just the best current theories of learning, but also the physical evidence of brains working at their optimum level. It is teaching that produces results beyond those measured in test scores and professional success, because it boosts confidence, heightens creativity, and helps children develop a flexibility of thinking that can be turned to any challenge. A brain trained through the BHR system does not need linear instructions like so many children do. It can make its own decisions, combine different areas of knowledge and skill, approach a problem from many different angles – because these are exactly the strategies modelled throughout the BHR program, embedded in its teaching techniques.

Accelerated Learning, Creativity, Concentration, Success<br />
Children are always showing off their amazing creativity and imagination. They love pictures and stories, music, jokes; but before long these wonderful skills can be buried under an avalanche of right-brained information and purely rational thinking in a logical, adult world. BHR encourages a child to make the most of their left and right hemispheres in combination, providing the structure and guidance needed to organise creativity and focus imagination. Planning, prioritising and time-management are all key strands, but only alongside the fun and freedom of imaginative association.

The BHR Programs<br />
The BHR system is particularly good for learning languages because it builds on understanding. Every word learnt is a foundation on which the next word can be set. Sessions on vocabulary, grammar, comprehension and composition are designed to combine into a holistic approach to the language; and, since the learning is being done according to the best brain principles, the child is not just learning a language but actually learning to think in that language. The confidence to speak and write the language comes quickly, and soon the child is moving past the mechanics and basic vocabulary to explore poems and idioms. The more children learn this way, the more able they are to learn what comes next: and, crucially, the more motivated they are to keep going. This is learning that makes children smile as they show themselves how much they can do, and it feeds back into families and communities as the good practice spreads.

Release the potential in your Child’s Brainpower<br />
BHR brings to life a child’s whole mind, setting them on a journey to relaxed, enjoyable and powerful learning. It harnesses potential that could otherwise so easily go to waste.