Educational curriculum to develop thinking skills, social skills and emotional intelligence.

children playing an educational game (quoridor) and learning thinking skills (creative thinking and critical thinking) social skills and emotional intelligence

Not by force shall the youth learn, but through play. Plato

At the heart of Mind Lab is the belief that the most effective way of learning is through an enjoyable and engaging hands-on experience and that playing games provides the perfect risk free environment for experimentation and learning. However, today's busy lifestyles and passive entertainment from computers, 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 educational board games from around the world as a tool to engage and teach children effective thinking together with social skills 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:

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

Sharing
Taking turns
social cooperation
Helping others
Resolving conflict
communication
team work
collaboration
effective discussion
influencing
resolving conflict
competition

Self reflection
self discipline
self confidence
personal responsibility
express & understand feelings
winning and losing gracefully
learning from one’s mistakes
self esteem
anger management
management of emotions
setting & achieving goals
analyse & manage risk

Most importantly, in Mind Lab children learn how to use these skills at home with their family, with their friends, in their communities and in their classes at school – building children’s’ self confidence and self esteem, 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 the thinking skills as well as social and emotional intelligence skills needed 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.