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Understanding the basics of mental mapping

• Understanding the principles of a mental map from its genesis.
• Releasing your mental processes with respect to memory, reasoning, decision-making, and attention.
• Accepting the learning situation to acquire the mental process of change.

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Building effective, stimulating manual mental maps

• Integrating methods for creating the mental map.
• Designing your mental map: Following general principles and adding your “personal touch”.
• Telling apart different types of mental maps and identifying their respective efficiencies.
• Taking notes based on a text, with the mental map method.
• Knowing how to read a mental map.

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Using mental mapping to increase your productivity

• Knowing where to start, overcoming blank page syndrome.
• Developing collective intelligence: Working in groups with a single mental map.
• Leading a multi-person meeting with a collective mental map.
• Creating a communicable summary and encouraging feedback without grades.
• Writing up an action plan and daring to innovate.
• Memorizing without effort, making a speech dynamic and lively.

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Creating mental maps with the software XMind

• Overview of different software and creating mental maps.
• Discovering XMind: The fundamentals of mental mapping.
• Building a digital mental map: Structure, theme, branches, etc.
• Laying out a mental map: Font, size, colors, images, tags, etc.
• Reorganizing and modifying an existing mental map.