Create Powerful Learning Environments
Course
Unlock the Secrets of a Brain-Friendly Environment
Be the master of your Training environment, not its victim! There are a lot of things that affect the flow of a lesson – both online and in person. In this webinar/workshop you will learn ways to: generate curiosity in the learner; create a stimulating adult learning space, and have time work for you with tricks that work like magic. Use group dynamics to achieve your outcomes. Never let difficult behaviours flatten your enthusiasm.
Join Laurie Kelly from Brain Friendly Training to help you really feel that you have plenty of ideas to help build your confidence in managing the ‘non-content’ aspects of training. These are equally important to utilize correctly to achieve your goals of an outstanding training session. Laurie will show you how!
Step into the role of a training ringmaster and revolutionize your training environment in our dynamic webinar, "Create Powerful Learning Environments."
Whether in a face-to-face workshop or an online session, you are the orchestrator, shaping the backdrop that sets the stage for engaged and effective learning. Elevate your skills to turn every tool at your disposal into a valuable asset for your training journey.
Unlock the Secrets of a Brain-Friendly Environment
This webinar goes beyond the surface, delving into what causes anxiety and stress in the brain and, more importantly, how to minimize these effects for both yourself and your students. Discover how to activate the Prefrontal Thinking Cortex, ensuring an eager, ready, and open mindset for optimal learning outcomes. Managing the training environment involves navigating time constraints, student behaviour, physical or virtual spaces, nerves, and technology—transforming potential challenges into opportunities for growth.
Workshop details
Date: Thursday 6 November 2025
Time: 1.00pm AEDT (Sydney, Melbourne)
Duration: 1.5 hours
Investment: $59.99 inc GST.
10% discount! for VET PD Series subscribers - Use your Voucher Code when registering!
Key Principles for Success:
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Five Key Areas of Environment Management: Explore the five critical areas to minimize anxiety for yourself and your students while creating a conducive learning environment.
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Trainer's Nerves and Mindset: Learn techniques to manage your own nerves and mindset as the trainer, ensuring a focused and effective delivery.
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Maximizing Cortisol and Adrenaline Levels: Discover simple and effective ideas to manage students' Cortisol and Adrenaline levels, enhancing the learning experience.
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Adapting to Varied Environments: Effectively manage any physical or virtual environment, staying in control even in less-than-ideal situations.
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Strategic Time Management: Turn the challenge of time into an advantage, maximizing the time you have for impactful learning. Heaps of ideas here as well.
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Prompt Student Readiness: Ensure your students arrive on time and mentally prepared to learn, with tips to bring them back from breaks promptly.
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Disruptive Behaviour Management: Learn tricks and tips for managing disruptive behaviours without losing focus or energy.
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Group work: Group work can be a very powerful teaching technique and there are ways to facilitate it for maximum effect.
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Effective Feedback: All learners love feedback on their efforts. It is vital and needs to be done well so it encourages a self-directed drive for improvement.
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Mind-Stretching Activities: Infuse fun ways to stretch minds and extend the consolidation of learning, creating an engaging and memorable experience.
Join us in this transformative webinar to become a master of your training environment, transforming challenges into assets and creating powerful learning experiences. Elevate your training delivery and set the stage for success from the very beginning!
The Presenter
Laurie Kelly
Laurie Kelly has been opening up the “mysteries of the mind” to trainers and educators from all walks of life around the world for most of his working life. He is a specialist in Brain-Friendly Training and Delivery Skills that engage. This has been his passion for over 30 years and his passion is drawn from his wealth of experience, his love for his subject and his ability to rekindle enthusiasm and passion in even the most tired Educator.
Recognised as a National and International Educator of Educators, he communicates his teachings to everyone at all levels, from CEO’s to the people on the ground, whilst making it captivating, engaging, relevant and instantly transferable back into the workplace. Laurie is driven to improve the learning experience from a learner’s perspective by making trainers more effective and impactful via enhanced & engaging delivery skills.
Laurie speaks both nationally and internationally on current knowledge of how the learning brain works to maximize the impact of teaching, and to create an openness factor in our approach to change and new learning. His experience in improving trainers’ skills in engagement is vast – he is one of the most sought after presenters in his field.
A Statement of Attendance is available for issue on completion of the event's activities.
The recording of the live webinar will be available to participants for 30 days after the event.
CORE AREAS
TRAINING (Revised SRTO) - VOCATIONAL TRAINING INCLUDING COMPETENCY-BASED TRAINING (SRTO2015)
- Facilitating Training
- Plan and prepare for vocational training
- Deliver face-to-face vocational training
ENGAGING AND SUPPORTING VET STUDENTS (Revised SRTO) - VOCATIONAL LEARNING (SRTO2015)
- Supporting Learning
- Support individual and group learning
Completion
The following statements are received when the course is completed:
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Brain Friendly Training Statement of Attendance |