Potential:

I sent both my children for the activation. Both benefited deeply.

My girl from low self confidence to a very confidence girl.
She went when she was P6 and now she is in Sec 1. Her memory has definitely improves that she took shorter time to study and yet score for all her papers. She had never been top few in class from P1 to P5.

phtthp:

besides testing kids from Assumption school, why not test directly on all children from 'Association of the Blind' ?

these pitiful children are already blind - so there is no need to blind fold them anymore.

if this technique claims that it can work by blindfolding children - surely the same method should also work on blind children too, right ? why should there be a difference ?

Kelly888:

Another of their marketing strategy. PLEASE enough of all these. You must be working for GMC other you won't use the words 'OUR COACHES' in your writeup.

krazy:

My girl went for the course.


And after I read the latest post here, I asked her if she was taught to cheat and look through the little gap. She said no. She said, she was told to close her eye lids before putting on the blind fold.

Then I asked further and said, but you can peep through the little gap right and she said yes, and her reply to me was \"why peep, when I can clearly see it in my brain?\"

Well, there are bound to be people who will believe and then of course people from the other camp who are skeptical. it's okay.

Just to share a little something more:
GMA has adopted APS as our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) project to make a difference to their students.

Background to Assumption Pathway School:
For students who have challenges with passing PSLE. These students cannot get into main stream secondary schools, and too young to go ITE. Without special schools such as Assumption Pathway School and NortLight School, their only alternative is the street. Many of the students have special needs, are from broken family, or low income group. >50% are on financial assistance. Their website: http://www.aps.edu.sg/

GMC ran the 1st of a series of workshops for their students FOC on 4th/5th Oct 2011
It was a very touching scene at the graduation and demo at GMA. The day before, the students came in, many felt that it would be cool just to miss school and have fun for two days. They had fun indeed, but they were also transformed in the two days.

When Trainer Jeanie encouraged them to hug the coaches and trainer on day one, there were great reluctance. Many of them were deprived of hugs, love and respects. They do not expect to receive any, and do not wish to give any. With our coaches’ dedication and patience, one by one, they started to melt, and they opened up. By the end of day two, there were hugs and confidence everywhere.

The students had been for years labelled as ‘failures’, and they believed it too. At GMA, this is the first time they felt that ‘I am a Genius’ and ‘I can do it!’. They could feel that it is not just the words of encouragement coming from the coaches, but that the coaches strongly and sincerely believed in them.

They indeed could do it. This is one of the workshops in GMA that produced the highest number of Super Strongly Activated students. There are so many of them who could tell beyond just black/red. Many of them are able to read books, write, shade pictures, sort colours, read serial number of dollar notes, and IC numbers blindfolded. This is even more incredible considering the whole class are all above the age of 13.

Besides the blindfold reading skills, transformation took place in many students. Day 1, many have low self-confidence (what else, when you have been labelled for years), emotional issues, attention seeking, rebellious. By day 2, many become more confident, cleared the bulk of their emotional issues and became lovable and adorable.

cimman:

BigDevil:

Caught the tail end of an interview on 938live.


GMA (http://www.geniusmindacademy.com.sg/) has this 2 day workshop to activate the midbrain of your child. Now we know there's a left brain and a right brain. Left brain is more for logic, numbers, etc while right brain is for emotion, artistic, creativity, etc.

In the interview, they claim that by activating the midbrain, a \"bridge\" will be created so that the child can tap on both side of the brain, thereby creating a more-balanced person with high IQ as well as EQ.
One example quoted was a boy who went from failing Chinese in P5 to scoring A* in PSLE, without changing any other routine or extra tuition...only the brain activation.

Anyone heard of this before? Anyone's child went through the workshop?

that is absolutely bs. If someone told you Harry Potter is actually based on a true story and that there is actually a Ministry of Magic, you would have believed. The main reason why a child fails language is mainly because of disinterest. If a child is interested in something, trust me, there is no reason why the child would not have passed the subject.

In a lot of our daily activities, we use both the right brain and left brain together. To have someone tell you that since you were born, you have never used both brains together is total hogwash. Have you used both arms together, both eyes together, both legs together ? why is it that your brain is an exception ?

To attend this course so that you learn to use both brains together and that this is an ability that needs to be .......er.. I don't know what word to use here because they don't even teach you how to do that, it's just listening to music and watching TV for 2 days, that all of a sudden, \"magically\" links right brain to left brain.

Don't believe in magic, don't believe in short cuts to academic excellence. There are no short cuts, just lots of hard work. This 2 day course will set you back by $1500. Use the money to go on a holiday.

You need to understand how the brain works. There are synapes, links between brain cells. The more linkages, the more intelligent you are, because you have more access to information. It's just like networking with people. The more links you have with people, the more opportunities you will get to know and the more likely you will succeed in business. For people with high IQ, the synapes were formed very early in life, and they were formed very easily, for the rest of use, we have to build them with some effort. Yes, the synapes can be built through learning and an effort to understand new concepts. Synapes are not built in a day, they require time and effort to build.

The left brain and right brain do work together for all us in our daily lives. In a lot of our activities, there is no strict rule to say only use the logical aspect or the creative aspect of our brains. Our brain is not like a computer, to turn a portion of it on and off whenever we want to. All parts of our brain work together to accomplish our daily tasks. If you have an interest in brain training, I would recommend that you check out cognitive training. At least, they advocate putting in a fair effort to train the brain. That effort will create additional synapes.

The internet is full of fake testimonials. There is a business reason for this. There is a commission given for every sale made by anyone who can pull in a client. Approach information with an inquiring mind.