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Once a year I join my teachers Paul Scheele and Lynette Ayers in Minneapolis for the annual PhotoReading instructor training. I have the privledge of teaching an international group of new PhotoReading instructor candidates what it takes to share this amazing program. The course is only held once a year and is fantastic because trainers, teachers and facilitators come from across the globe and spend ten days straight with us to get access to this amazing technology and new paradigm of information procesing and learning. I get to meet other brothers and sisters world-wide who are also committed to transforming education as we know it.

This year I had the pleasure of working with five new instructors including: James and Esther Gitau from Nairobi, Kenya. They have an extraordinary training company Peak Performance which offers a variety of corporate and personal development programs. They are adding PhotoReading to enhance their existing programs which will bring a new love of reading and learning to their region of the globe!

Then there is Ken Prevost in Ottowa, Canada. His company, GC Training, offers a management coures and he is also an excellent NLP facilitator. He plans to expand his services and is using PhotoReading as one of the many tools to do it.

Baard Lois Sande is from Norway and has a style of his own. He travels internationally and takes his programs everywhere, serving his corporate clients as well as offering public workshops. It is my understanding that the people in Norway love to read and will be eager to embrace this innovative program. Baard is a Sedona Method fan and is adept at helping people to heal old wounds.

Kevin Montes traveled all the way from Johannasburg South Africa to attend this training. Kevin is a firewalker and holds amazing breakthrough seminars teaching people how to get to the other side of fear. He is eager to complete his certification so that he can continue to help people to have personal and professional achievements, just as he has been through his awesome firewalking ceremonies. Kevin had never seen snow and he got a bit of it for the very first time in April! I had fun taking pictures of a firewalker playing in the snow! 

I'd like to invite anyone who might be interested in becoming a PhotoReading instructor to inquire and see if its a good match for you. We need more instructors and PhotoReading has yet to reach its tipping point. With change agents like these coming aboard, it won't be long before entire communites are "doing the thing" and realizing that PhotoReading is natural, easy to learn, and its fun!  

I was reading The Book of Secrets by Deepak Chopra, – he is a marvelous teacher and storyteller, and he uses this metaphor to pose the question, Do you deny yourself mastery? Here it is:

"Imagine a baby who wants to walk but has these reservations:

     1.   I don't want to look bad

     2.   I don't want to fall down

     3.   I don't anyone else to watch me fail

     4.   I don't want to live with the burden of failure

     5.   I don't want to expend all of my energy

     6.   I don't want any pain

     7.   I want to get things over with as fast as possible

For a baby these reservations seem absurd. If any of them were applied, walking would never happen and the chance of master would never present itself. Yet as adults, we resort to these reservations all the time. We deny ourselves mastery as a result."

When I think about PhotoReading, I think about all of the people who deny themselves mastery because they use these same ridiculous excuses at one level or another. Excuses even a baby dares not to use! 

Its time to heal the wounded learner, forgive the past and embrace the power and magnificence of who you really are as a GHB – a Growing Human Being! PhotoReading is easy – its just different. If you haven't started your PhotoReading journey, get busy, it will take you down the rabbit hole for sure – a journey inside yourself where self mastery – is only the beginning. And its fun!

It was Super Bowl Weekend. Dallas got snowed in and Houston was iced down. When I arrived in Houston on Thursday afternoon to teach a weekend PhotoReading Seminar, I wasn't sure if it was going to happen or who would show up. The Houston airport was preparing to close down as they simply aren't used to sleet and ice and for safety's sake, it was probably a good call.

To my surprise, all but two people showed up to learn PhotoReading, in spite of the weather. I was impressed as these were unstoppable human beings who were committed to learning at all costs. PhotoReading is an investment in yourself. I've come to understand that its only for those who are serious learners that are willing to pay the price, and that means time and energy to achieve personal self-mastery. That's what the program is about – mastery – not just "reading" more books. Thats only one of the many benefits derived from the course.

I was delighted to meet Darla Perry, a CPA from Lousiana who is tackling tax code. She needs to amp up her skills to stay on top of her game. Then there was Shinobu Gilbreth, a Japanese medical doctor who wants more out of life and is committed to expanding her self. Juan Garcia is a former school superintendant and now teaches other how to excel in that field. His wife Ida is a principal at an elementary school. What a delight to be with a couple who are so committed to learning. Melba Wilson is an insurance agent and is expanding her horizons. Craig Roberson is a postal worker and is researching internet business opportunities. He needs to get more reading done in a shorter period of time. Peter Gonzalez, an extraordinary man of many talents, is a Psych-K instructor. He travels the world teaching powerful educational seminars. Piero Dambrosio is an engineer who has plenty to read and is a many of varied interests, including mastering programs like PhotoReading so that he can assist his children with embracing these human development programs. Anuj Shah is an immigration attorney with three degrees and who speaks 5 languages. He is an avid reader and is always looking for more powerful ways to communicate and solve problems. The baby of the group was Benjamin Chaftez, a college student who flew in from North Carolina just to learn this new skill.

I am always amazed by the eclectic group of everyday people, students and business professionals who show up from all walks of life to embrace PhotoReading protocol. It is my pleasure to share innovative reading strategies and I experience many benefits from using it and sharing it with others as it's an organic and flexible system with many layers. PhotoReading consists of five easy to learn steps. More than that though, you learn more about yourself than you ever learned in school. Once you learn how your brain works and learn a new and different way of using what belongs to you, things open up and you discover a whole new way of looking at books, and at life.

For me, PhotoReading is a natural process and is a natural high. I have more clarity of mind and my dreams are more vivid, including lucid dreams, and my relationship to authors is expanded. Reading is just a converstion with an author and using the PhotoReading whole mind system helps me get through books quicker and with improved comprehension. I know that the new group of graduates who joined the community of dedicated PhotoReading graduates world-wide are going to develop their skills to the max. They've already demonstrated that in part by braving the weather and playing full out.

I'm an unstoppable PhotoReading Instructor and each time I share this course, I feel privileged to meet so many diverse lovers of learning. Like me, these people didn't care much about Super Bowl. They care about learning and evolving as growing human beings. That's the game we're playing. We're committed and they've now joined the ranks of unstoppable learners who know that in order to have more, you've got to do more. And yes, that means turning off your TV. I thank God for those who are willing to dig deep and go the extra mile. It makes every trip for me worthwhile, rain, sleet, snow or shine.

Milton Chen is the former Director at the George Lucas Educational Foundation has a new book Education Nation is a powerful new look at restructuring our educational system and he shares 6 leading edges of innovations in our schools. Milton has gleened the best practices from innovators everywhere.

1. The Thinking Edge – changing about the nature of our thinking about schools, what a teacher is and students roles in learning. Milton says this is the most difficult and most important piece

2. The Edge of Curriculum – refining our curriculum – making it relevant to student's lives!
 

3. The Technology Edge – technology is enabling many new kinds of platforms and experiences for students
 

4. The Edge of time and place – learning can happen anywhere all of the time 24-7-365
 

5. The Co-Teaching Edge – a new model of sharing the teaching responsiblities with others co-educators including parents, other professionals and members of the community

6. The Youth Edge – our youth are born into this new age of technology and have a fundamentally way of learning which is different from the old school way of learning.

Click the link below to see his video and the many resources the George Lucas Foundation is making available  Education Nation

I'm back in Chicago, teaching another PhotoReading Seminar and I'm impressed with the zeal and enthusiam of the Chicago PhotoReaders – newbies and graduates. I've got several graduates that have returned to reimmerse themselves in the PhotoReading environment for a refresher.

Ruth Loh had her entire family take the seminar earlier this year in Minneapolis. She says her daughter is working it naturally and that her teacher inquired how it was that she was getting her homework done in 45 minutes or less when others struggled for hours. Could it be PhotoReading? When parents are insightful enough to invest in their children and bring them to the course, the benefits are outrageous and beautiful because children get it quicker than adults! Why might that be? Because they have fewer self-limiting beliefs to overcome! They are willing to try new things and just dive in and go for it!

Michael Royster is another graduate who is seeing the course from a whole new perspective. As an NLP practitioner and trainer, his eyes are opening wider and wider as he is experiencing the course from an expanded perspective and sees more of the technology that the course was built upon: Accelerated Learning, NLP and Pre-Conscious Processing.

PhotoReading is a rich course, and bring a new experience each time for everyone – students and instructor alike! It is a joy to share this work and I'd like to invite anyone who is interested in becoming a PhotoReading Instructor to contact me or Learning Strategies to find out more. We need more incredible visionaries and joy activators to help cultivate "lovers of learning!" That's my goal and that's what the PhotoReading whole mind system affords me. Blessing to you Paul Scheele and all of my family at Learning Strategies!

As a Master Trainer for Learning Strategies, I recently had the pleasure of completing the certification of a new PhotoReading Instructor. Tom Kavanaugh is a wonderful and welcome addition to the team of world-wide instructors that share the PhotoReading whole mind system under the direction of Paul Scheele.
 

Tom is an NLP Practitioner and Trainer and is adept at helping learners grasp the sometimes nebulous concepts that PhotoReading introduces. His use of story and metaphor inside of his presentation of the material were second to none and impress themselves deeply upon the unconscious mind of the new PhotoReaders
 

Tom is also a master trainer for iMindMap, a software developed by Tony Buzan, the developer of the Mind Map protocols. His use of the mind map software program inside of the PhotoReading seminar takes the activations to a new level. I was really excited and delighted to watch him express the material with such creativity and professionalism.

We need more innovative people like Tom Kavanaugh to join the international body of PhotoReading Instructors. Tom has plans to teach Mind Mapping and PhotoReading along with his NLP coaching practice throughout the state of California. That's a lot of territory and with his sales and marketing background, I know that Tom will go far.
 

Interested in becoming a PhotoReading Instructor? We sure would love to have you. Respond to this post and share whats in your heart, any curiousity you may have, and why you think you'd like to do this work. You just may be The One….

With joy and in service,
Millicent St. Claire

The personal love notes I get in my email in-box from PhotoReading graduates just floor me. I want to say again that I too am so positively impacted by the PhotoReading program, which is why I love sharing the program with others and do it with such uninhibited joy! Paul Scheele is indeed a master teacher and his work reaches those who really give themselves to it – at their core.

I spoke with Alex Postalachi this morning. He took the course for the first time last weekend on a last minute invitation from his sister Lilia. Alex is still reeling from the impact of the experience. One of the many insights he shared was how deeply impressed he was by the graduates who returned and shared themselves. He commented how humble and open they were and that the graduates provided a living model for him.

I love the graduate policy too and can hardly turn anyone down. My classes are always maxed out. We normally reserve 5 seats at each seminar for graduates to come back and re-immerse themselves, have the PhotoReading experience from a new and different instructor – and even in a different city or different part of the world! What a cool policy. Learning Strategies Rocks!

I'm new to the blog game and you're welcome to check out Learning Strategies' blog at www.learningstrategies.com/blog/ Also, their discussion forums are rich and so much can be learned from the deep sharing there.

If you're curious and even remotely attracted to PhotoReading, take the plunge! You'll be glad you did…guaranteed.

The PhotoReading Seminar this past weekend here in Atlanta was mind blowing. Once again, people came from far and wide to immerse themselves in the "experience" and it was powerful.

Edgar Oblitey took the course from me in December 2009 and has decided to finish a four year degree in one year! He is well on the path and share some of his successes already using the system.

Steve and Darlene Wilson traveled from Vancouver and brought their three children, who also attended the seminar. Benjamin is 15, Briana is 14 and Amanda is 10. They played full court along side the adults and did very well.

Jean-Pierre Wilmart is a life-long learner, and at 71 had a new and expanded experience of himself in the course and now sees tons of new possiblities for the rest of his life!

Then there was Kerry, Josh and Nancy Tilton, another family that are all graduates of the program from 1994. PhotoReading took Nancy through law school and helped her in many other areas of her life. The real life testimonials are astonishing.

Another graduate, Erica Nicholson brought her ten year old daughter Brejah to take the course with her. Children need exposure to this as soon as possible and I'm so proud of the parents that took the plunge and brought their children to the course. Stay tuned for details on the upcoming summer camp for teens.

Learning Strategies' graduate policy is the coolest as those who have completed the program are invited to retake the course for a small fee of $80 any where in the world with different instructors. They show up to share their successes and to hone their skills. They also get the pleasure of experiencing different instructors teaching styles. What a fantastic benefit!

The diversity of the people that come, not only to learn the PhotoReading Whole Mind System, but also to accelerate their personal journey as growing human beings (GHBs) always delights my heart! I am always expanded by the many new friends and activation partners who are powerful contributors and who are all committed to the same thing – mastering the information age and personal self-mastery!

I have Relational Wealth in a big way and I love PhotoReading for all of the gifts that it brings, many which have to be experienced as words can't begin to describe the hidden treasures inside…

Graduates – Who holds the key?
 

PhotoReading is coming back to Atlanta March 5-7, 2010!

Teaching PhotoReading this weekend in Denver, Colorado was  yet another tremendous opportunity for me to help share this incredible and life changing program. The class was full of hungry, eager learners that hung on every word and gave it their all as they learned this simple and elegant mind development protocol.
 

I love it when people take responsiblity for their learning and engage in new and expanded sciences of the mind and discover how to develop more of their potential. Isn't that what life's all about?
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