Memory Enhancement Workshop for lists and errands

If you want to do something unexpectedly FUN and unique, this is it !!  You won't be embarrassed and you won't believe your own abilities !! It's so much fun to exercise your brain in an extremely useful manner, it's not hard, you just need to be shown how to do it !  Mnemonics (Greek): Mental devices used to assist and enhance memory.  Did you forget your shopping list again, or to stop at the pharmacy or bank on the way home?  Panic no more.  You have more control over your memory than you think.  Your mind, yes, yours, with very little effort, and actual fun, can learn once and for all how to memorize lists of up to 20 items or more !!  You will seriously never have to write a list again, and realize that writing down everything actually stops you from working that memory activation mode in your brain.  It’s fun and astounding, you will be immediately impressed with yourself !  If I can do it, you can do it !  We’ll use simple, fun and entertaining “tricks” and procedures to bring this new, life-long habit into action.  You will be shocked and amazed at how easily what I will teach you works !!  Please eat a little something before you come or grab a snack and water for the class.  Please bring a simple notebook and pen.   **This workshop is not meant for folks with diagnosed memory issues.   It is for the average person, many of us greatfully and gracefully aging, who just want to learn some useful and entertaining memory devices.  

Karen Charbonneau Zukas is a graduate of Tufts university and The School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston with a master’s degree in education from Western New England University. She is a recognized portrait painter and potter and former columnist for the Bulletin in Boston. She has been teaching various subjects, primarily advanced ESL, fine art, writing, test prep, debate and humanities; at universities, preparatory, public, private and international schools and community ed in Boston and now locally for over 35 years. She and her family moved back to the south coast in 2013. She is the proprietor of Peasantware Pottery in New Bedford and the founder of The New Bedford Art and Cultural Emporium at Kilburn !

• Have your GPS take you to 101 West Rodney French Blvd. in New Bedford.  Once there, please park on the end of the building AWAY from the main entrance.  You'll see an ORANGE door that says Mattress Handup...enter there and go up the stairs.  At the top of the stairs...follow small yellow signs for NBACE.  We're right around the corner behind the mural  !!