Natural Learning is the process that all people use to come to perceive and act in the real world in new ways.
This perception/action dynamic functions according to the systems principles of natural learning developed by Renate and Geoffrey Caine
1. Learning engages the physiology.
2. The brain/mind is social.
3. The search for meaning is innate.
4. The search for meaning occurs through patterning.
5. Emotions are critical to patterning.
6. The mind/brain processes parts and wholes simultaneously.
7. Learning involves both focused attention and peripheral
perception.
8. Learning always involves conscious and unconscious processes.
9. We have at least two ways of organizing memory: A spatial
memory system and a set of systems for rote learning.
10. Learning is developmental.
11. Complex learning is enhanced by challenge and inhibited by
threat.
12. Each brain is uniquely organized.
The principles apply to all learners irrespective of age, gender, subject matter, ethnicity, economic status or any other factor.
