Mind LAB - Life and Games

The Mind Lab Group was founded in 1994. Its activities are centred around the development and training of thinking skills through thinking games.

The goal of Mind Lab is to impart thinking abilities and life skills, that will assist them to maximise their own potential and help them to become more successful and happy individuals, who act honourably toward their peers and achieve optimal self-realisation of their respective talents.

At the heart of Mind Lab Method is the notion that the most effective way to learn is through an immediate and authentic experience that leaves one wanting more. Game playing is the perfect example of such an experience – it is entertaining, engaging and exciting, and therefore stimulates eager involvement. No less important is the fact that the game-playing experience provides students with the training and application of thinking abilities and life skills.

The Four Goals

Developing Awareness

Awareness of thinking processes is essential for personal enhancement in every walk of life. The Mind Lab Method, making use of unique metacognitive thinking models, emphasizes reflective and cognizant thinking that enhances the use of rational processes and enables pupils to constantly progress.

Imparting Thinking Skills

In our information-rich age, an ever-increasing emphasis is being placed on the importance of basic thinking skills. The Mind Lab Method provides a broad range of these skills: problem-solving strategies, decision-making models, investigative processes, information and data management, logical and mathematical thinking, verbal and communication skills, and more.

Strengthening Life Skills

The game-playing experience is an extraordinary simulative tool for the development of emotional and social intelligence. It obliges us to deal with situations involving cooperation and competition, winning and losing, success and failure, and it reinforces our ability to effectively manage and control our emotions, to defer gratification and to enhance our determination, perseverance and self-discipline.

Interdisciplinary Transference

The application of content and skills learned in one setting to another is considered by many researchers to be one of the most important learning abilities. Mind Lab's unique teaching method establishes an organising base for many aspects of our lives. Through this method, children develop the ability to identify links between different fields of human thinking and activity, and this consequently enables them to transfer knowledge and apply it to other fields.

Methodology

The Mind Lab learning process is simple and yet extremely powerful. The process begins with children indulging in game playing, which ultimately empowers them with skills and knowledge relevant to real-life situations. The Mind Lab Method is the bridge that connects the World of Games with the Real World.