Mind Lab learning through fun

About Mind Lab
Mind Lab learning through fun

Watch children playing board games with each other, running a three legged race or playing football - they're not only having fun but also learning cooperation, teamwork, role clarity, strategy and tactics.ot by forc shall the youth learn, but through play. Plato

At the heart of Mind Lab is the belief that the most productive way of learning is through fun and hands-on experience and that game playing provides the perfect tool. However, today's busy lifestyles and passive entertainment from computer games, television and automated toys often leaves little time for our children to develop key social, emotional and thinking skills through active face to face interaction with their friends and peers.

Mind Lab uses carefully selected board games from around the world as a tool to engage and teach children effective thinking together with social and emotional intelligence. The children experience the difference that these newly learnt skills make to their game playing and then learn, and are motivated, to apply these new skills to all aspects of life itself. The Mind Lab curriculum helps children develop:

thinking skills

social skills

emotional intelligence

decision making
problem solving
spatial thinking
logical thinking
memory training
planning & execution
grouping & sequencing
mathematical thinking
probability studies
scientific thinking
research methods
effective questioning
resource management
tactics and strategy
investigative skills
creative thinking

social cooperation
communication
team work
collaboration
influencing
conflict resolution
competition

self discipline
self confidence
personal responsibility
winning and losing gracefully
learning from one’s mistakes
self esteem
anger management
management of emotions

Most importantly, Mind Lab shows children how to use these skills at home with their family, with their friends, in their communities and in their classes at school - helping them to improve scholastically, build better personal relationships, relate to and cooperate with others and learn how to tackle life's problems and challenges.

My daughter is quite a rigid, black and white person. Since starting Mind Lab sessions I have noticed that she is becoming more flexible and better at problem solving in the home situation - such as confrontations, with me or her sisters, and homework.
Ms D. Lovett, Mother

Our goal is to impart to the next generation thinking abilities as well as life skills to help them to become successful and happy individuals, who are well equipped to face the challenges of tomorrow, make the best of their natural talents and act responsibly towards others.