“Annals of Tourism Research, experts say that increasingly affluent and educated people around the world are ready to see travel in less conventional ways, and that lifelong learning and personal enrichment can compete favorably with sandy beaches or thrill rides.” Of course, the development of this type of tourism will start with a combination of both: Learning Troy Culture in Turkey, or Learning Yoga inNepal Mountains. Later it may develop into Learning Moldovan Homemade Wine continue...

Dear colleagues, a warm hello to you all! School is the place where children spend more than 60% of the time per day … Has anyone thought about how does the building we studied in, or worked in, or where our children are studying right now, make any difference in the quality of education?! Do you think the way the building is designed, its colors, shapes, the light, the space, etc. have an impact on how children learn and on their happiness?! My personal opinion is yes, indeed very continue...

Dear colleagues! Warm greetings to you all! I know that many of you are these days busy writing proposals, responding to the opened calls and delivering trainings, and in general, planning the Agenda for the 2012 to make it more and more interesting and captivating! Am I right?! Well, this is to get back to you with some interesting issues, based on my personal experience in trying to do some things mentioned above! As you may recall, end of 2011, I was sharing with you and interesting call continue...

Dear Colleagues! Warm Season Greetings to all those who are celebrating Christmas during this weekend! “CMB” Training Center team wishes you a Prosperous and a Happy New Year 2012! - Let the New Year  provoke you to be generators of interesting and innovative projects; - May you be full of positive energy and always in good spirits, thus motivating and inspiring people you work with day by day; -  May you have the opportunities to spend more time with dear to you people; - May continue...

In this post, I wanted to share with you some interesting news, which are related to the change in leadership of the Open Society Foundations.  The OSF will have a new leader in 2012,Christopher Stone, and this will surely influence the way the Foundations will implement, develop and promote its values, principles and initiatives. http://blog.soros.org/2011/12/a-new-leader-for-the-open-society-foundations-in-2012/ Do you agree that new people usually lead to changes in an organization?! Or continue...

By using electricity to energize neural circuits in the cerebral cortex, researchers are hopeful that they have found a harmless and drug-free way to double the speed of learning. (Source: Scientific American). It is a very interesting research. Is it possible to energize neuron circuits without electricity? Do learning energizers (warm-ups) have a similar effect on brain? continue...

As much as we would like to think that, put on the spot, we would do the right — and perhaps even heroic — thing, research has shown that that usually isn’t true. “People are routinely more willing to be critical of others’ ethics than of their own,” said Francesca Gino, an associate professor at Harvard Business School. Most of us say we admire people who stand up for what’s right (or what is eventually shown to be right), especially when they are strong enough to stick to continue...

One of the training topics that might be of interest in adult education is “decision making”. One of the biggest problem a manager faces – lack of decision making skills in his employees. Of course there are 2 faces of this problem – the manager is eager to see his employees making decisions according to his own values, but employees are doing it according to their own values or even worse are not doing it at all because they are afraid of decisions. So, how can we continue...

Ten types of thinking (storytellers, visual, systemic, associative, logical, organizer, architect, intuitive, leader and vision) and no critical thinking between them. I started my search in the internet from a very simple task “To identify a list of types of thinking” – and answers were amazing! An enormous number of different types of thinking. What does it mean? – it means that there is no common ground behind. At the same time there is a lot of information continue...

“Happy people don’t just enjoy life; they’re likely to live longer, too. A new study has found that those in better moods were 35% less likely to die in the next 5 years when taking their life situations into account.” In case we really want our children live longer – we have to introduce few new standards for teachers: - express positive feelings during classes and after; - use positive case studies and examples; - encourage positive feelings in students. And continue...