Making Learning Easier

Welcome to The Magic of Drawing III: Making Learning Easier

Unlock the potential of drawing as a tool for enhancing learning. The Magic of Drawing III is designed to help you harness the power of visual thinking to remember, understand, and master new concepts with ease. Whether you are a student, professional, or lifelong learner, this course will provide you with effective drawing techniques to simplify complex ideas, boost memory, and foster mastery over time.

Course Overview

This course is divided into three two hours sessions, each aimed at using drawing to facilitate learning at different stages—remembering, understanding, and mastering.

• Session 1: Remember

  Learn how to use drawing as a tool for memorization. This session focuses on techniques that make it easier to remember key concepts through visual representation. By breaking down complex information into simple, memorable drawings, you’ll enhance your ability to retain information over longer periods. Perfect for students, professionals, or anyone seeking to boost their memory and recall.

• Session 2: Understand

  
In this session, we will dive deeper into using drawing to improve understanding. Through visual frameworks, you’ll learn how to transform abstract concepts into clear, understandable images. By drawing connections between ideas, you’ll not only understand the material better but also be able to explain it to others more effectively.

• Session 3: Continue, Manage, and Master

  Mastery comes through practice and continuous learning. This session teaches you how to use drawing as a long-term strategy for managing and mastering complex tasks and subjects. Whether it’s developing a new skill, managing projects, or preparing for exams, you’ll learn how to create visual guides that support continuous improvement and mastery.

Why Join The Magic of Drawing III?

• Boost Memory and Recall: Learn drawing techniques that make memorizing information easier and more enjoyable.
• Improve Understanding: Use drawing to simplify complex concepts and deepen your understanding of new material.
• Achieve Mastery: Develop visual strategies to manage ongoing learning and master new subjects with confidence.
• Adapt to Any Subject: Whether it’s academic learning, professional development, or personal growth, these techniques can be applied to any field of study.

Sign Up Today

Join us for The Magic of Drawing III and discover how drawing can make learning easier, more enjoyable, and more effective. Reserve your spot today and start your journey toward mastering new knowledge through the power of visual thinking!

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Dr Unnur Ottarsdottir has worked in a preschool, secondary schools and a high school as a teacher, special education teacher and art therapist. She is a part-time art therapy lecturer at the Iceland University of the Arts and at the continuing education department of the University of Akureyri. She is also a practising researcher at the Reykjavik Academy.

Unnur has practised art therapy in various institutions and in her private practice for 30 years. She runs an art therapy clinic in Iceland, specialising in treatment for children and adults dealing with traumatisation and specific learning difficulties. Her areas of research are art therapy in education for children with specific learning difficulties who have experienced trauma, and art making as a therapeutic and learning approach, including drawing for memorisation and emotional processing.

Unnur has given lectures and written chapters and articles about art therapy and memory drawing which have been published internationally.

Unnur conducted a research study into long-term memory of drawings and words. This is the first time that comparisons between drawn images and written words over such an extended period of time has been studied worldwide.