About Dr. Leaf

She has presented her unique Switch on Your Brain with the 5-Step Learning Process® and the Metacognitive-Map™ learning tool to thousands of students and corporations worldwide. She developed the Geodesic Learning™ theory and the metacognitive-mapping approach (how we think and process information), which has been shown to increase thinking, behavioral and academic performance by 35-75%. This revolutionary theory has contributed to how we understand the science of thought, explaining how thoughts form, how we process information, the power of the non-conscious mind and the relationship between the non-conscious and conscious. The theory proposes that everything you say and do is first a physical thought in the physical brain, a thought which you built with your mind. You think, and then you do, which cycles back to the original thought, changing it, and the thoughts connected to it, in a dynamic interrelationship.
Dr. Leaf has published a number of articles in academic journals and consumer magazines, and has been widely interviewed in newspapers, on radio and on television shows about her research and theories.
Her passion is to help people see the power of the mind and teach them how to control their thoughts and emotions, and learn how to think and find their sense of purpose in life.
She frequently lectures to audiences worldwide, linking scientific principles of the brain to spiritual, intellectual and emotional issues in simple and practical ways. She speaks on diverse topics relating to how the mind controls the brain through optimal thinking, and hence improved brain performance. These topics include:
1. Thinking and learning
2. Controlling your thought life through mind management
3. Managing toxic stress
4. Managing toxic thoughts and trauma through the 5-step Neurocycle process
5. Overcoming mental, emotional, and spiritual challenges
6. Identifying your unique way of thinking through the UQ profile
[1] Leaf, Uys, and Louw. “Mind-Mapping approach (MMA)”; Leaf, Uys, and Louw. “The development of a model for geodesic learning"; Dr Caroline Leaf. “The Switch on Your Brain 5-Step Learning Process-Classroom Results.” Retrieved from http://drleaf.com/download-dispatch/?fn=/Web-page-AA-research-project-3.pdf; Dr. Caroline Leaf. “Curriculum Vitae.” Dr. Leaf. Retrieved from http://drleaf.com/assets/files/DrCarolineLeaf_CurriculumVitae1.pdf; Dr. Caroline Leaf. “Ridiculous.” TEDx. March 16, 2015. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/yjhANyrKpv8.
DR. CAROLINE LEAF’S DEGREES
University of Cape Town South Africa Degree of Bachelor of Science (Logopaedics) - December 1985
University of Pretoria South Africa Masters in Communication Pathology with distinction/cum laude - June 1990
University of Pretoria South Africa Doctor Philosophiae with specialization in Communication Pathology With distinction/cum laude and academic honors - May 1997
Dr. Leaf is not a medical doctor, and nothing on this page should be seen as individual medical advice. She is a researcher and cognitive (mind) scientist, and this page is meant to be informational and encouraging in a general sense, and is based off Dr. Leaf's self-help products (see store.drleaf.com).
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