WineStudySkills Course Registration

$160 (CAD)

The Wine Study Skills course shares neurodevelopmentally informed strategies that will propel your studying to the next level.

The course takes you through 3 core components of studying and explains strategies in a way that is easy to absorb and incorporate into your studying practice.

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The Wine Study Skills Course consists of two parts, taken one week apart. The fee covers the whole course (Parts 1 and 2).

This Course is comprised of 2 live webinars.
Each is 1 hour, 30 minutes + Q&A

  • The four main steps for a successful approach to studying

    • Deconstruct the skill of studying into its three component parts

    • Learn the components well enough to self-regulate and self-correct when studying becomes stalled

    • Remove barriers to studying

    • Study consistently

  • The ‘gateway’ to studying

    This allows us to focus and concentrate on the study materials. A lack of attention is like shutting a door to incoming information to the brain.

    But being human means that our minds wander and get distracted. The Attention component includes four strategies that teach our brain to reign in distractedness and hone our ability to focus.

  • The ‘fuel’ that our brain requires to function at a high level

    Mental energy is what helps us sustain focused attention. It fuels our cognitive work and is especially important for the hard mental work of memory consolidation.

    Just like athletes who fuel their bodies for high performance, we can fuel our brain for high performance studying.

    We explore four strategies that enhance mental energy for studying.

  • Get all your questions answered!

First Half of the course

  • The key component to success in an exam

    The goal of a wine student is to take a massive amount of information and put it into long term memory. The memory component explores the brain processes necessary to achieve that goal efficiently and effectively.

    Six strategies will explore:

    • How memory works in the brain (+how to strengthen the formation of memory and avoid the degradation of memory);

    • How the brain processes new incoming information effectively (what to do to keep that information in memory and what not to do);

    • How to start forming memory pathways while reading;

    • How to maximize the amount of information processed by the brain while avoiding cognitive overload;

    • How to capitalize on the brain’s extraordinary ability to remember symbols and pictures;

    • How to minimize information ‘leakage’ from memory;

    • Verbal and physical tactics to enhance memory formation;

    plus many more strategies.

  • Tips for reviewing before an exam

    How to capitalize on the power of dopamine (its role in the brain’s reward circuit, its importance for memory and focus)

  • How to deal with stress

    What it is, why it exists, how to isolate stress responses and calm them

    + strategies to regain the ability to think clearly if suffering from a stress response

  • Get all your questions answered!

Second Half of the course

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Some wine students take the WineStudySkills course before their program start date while others enroll when they encounter studying difficulties that occur well into their wine program. The WineStudySkills course benefits wine students in either scenario.

  • Reading a list of study tips takes a minimal amount of time but the benefits are less profound than learning how to study from a neurodevelopmental perspective. While the WineStudySkills Course takes up 3 hours of valuable time, it can save you many more hours of study time wasted by distractions; lack of focus and concentration; low mental energy, productivity, efficiency and effectiveness. The course also shows how to maximize brain capacity for learning and memorizing an extraordinary amount of information.

  • People tend to learn intuitively. This generally works for us and gets us the results we need in most learning experiences. However, when we get to higher level wine programs with a massive amount of information to memorize in a short amount of time, intuitive studying practices tend to fall short.

    Learning how learning works from a brain perspective is the key to success when we need to learn and memorize stacks upon stacks of challenging material. In other words, knowing how to approach wine studies from a neurodevelopmental perspective shows us how to maximize the functioning of our brain while studying.

  • Students taking any upper level wine program that has a challenging theory exam will benefit from taking the WineStudySkills course.

    Participants are prompted to register in a WineStudySkills course for either the WSET Level 3, WSET Level 4/diploma program or an Italian Wine program. Wine students taking a different wine program can register for the WSET equivalent or contact me to see which to register for.

  • The WineStudySkills course focuses on studying for the theory component/s of wine exams.

    For a brain-based approach to tasting, look to the Tasting: A Neurodevelopmental Perspective course.

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