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The person-centered approach opens up new possibilities in training and further education: Away from the many methods and towards natural communication

The creative learning methods "Total Physical Response", "Missing Vowels", "Letter Salad", "Timeline" and "Learnflow" bring variety and color to gray learning processes.

Did you see that? Have you heard that? Have you already done that? Statements like these show how someone thinks and learns. For workshop and seminar leaders, knowledge of the different learning types and learning needs is extremely important: kinaesthetics need to do. Visual learners need to see. Verbal learners need to talk. Auditory learners need to hear. Scriptorians need to read or write. In every good lesson, learners should therefore alternate between seeing, hearing, writing, reading, talking and doing.

"Turning those affected into participants. This claim is inextricably linked to Neuland and the moderation method. In a time of total sensory overload, more and more training managers are trying to further develop and creatively implement the moderation method. Migros Lucerne has done this in a particularly funny way: it has made the learning content emotionally tangible for its employees with a sitcom.

People who give seminars, lead workshops and give lectures invest a lot of money in marketing, in a lean administration and in their own training and further education. However, "soft factors" such as charisma and likeability are just as important as know-how and experience. For this reason, professional appearance is of crucial importance