Coaching practices for Visual Auditory Kinesthetic Research
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- My mental rehearsal is a silent little movie
- When I’m teaching something visual I cram the slide with a busy diagram and a wall of text on top of it, and I can see people’s eyes glaze over trying to read and look at once
- I always reach for the way of studying that feels most comfortable to me, and I’m starting to wonder if "this is how I learn best" is just an excuse to avoid the methods that actually work but feel harder.
- I learn everything in just one channel
- I’ve watched all the videos and read all the guides and I still can’t actually do the thing
Practices that may help
- The Learning Styles Myth: What the Research Actually Says
The popular idea that people have fixed learning styles (visual, auditory, kinesthetic) and learn best when instruction matches their style is not supported by controlled research. Dozens of studies have found no benefit to matching instruction style to supposed learning style. The better question is which study method works best for the specific type of content — and the answer to that question is well studied and quite different from the learning-styles framework. - Add sensory channels beyond vision
Build auditory, tactile, and proprioceptive detail into your imagery — not just what you see.
Mental Rehearsal and Imagery, Made Practical - Use spoken audio for explanations paired with visual diagrams
Split visual and auditory working memory resources to process more information than either channel alone can handle.
Cognitive Load Theory: Learning Within Working Memory Limits - Stop studying "to your style" — study to the content
Choose your study method based on what the material requires, not what feels comfortable.
The Learning Styles Myth: What the Research Actually Says - Use multiple modalities to encode information, not just one
Read about it, draw it, say it aloud, and use it in an example — all in one session.
The Learning Styles Myth: What the Research Actually Says - Learn through action, not just observation
Do the thing — physically enact, build, or rehearse — rather than studying it at one remove.
Embodied Cognition: How Your Body Shapes Your Thinking - Simulate the scene mentally as you read or listen
Construct a sensorimotor simulation of described events rather than just parsing words.
Embodied Cognition: How Your Body Shapes Your Thinking - Gesture while learning or explaining
Move your hands to trace or enact what you are thinking — it aids comprehension and recall.
Embodied Cognition: How Your Body Shapes Your Thinking - Havening with lateral eye movements
Add side-to-side eye movements to the touch sequence to deepen attentional interruption.
Self-Havening: Calming the Nervous System Through Touch - Use a first-person kinesthetic perspective
Feel the movement from inside your body — do not watch yourself performing from outside.
Mental Rehearsal and Imagery, Made Practical
Related concerns
- Kinesthetic Imagery
Feel the movement from inside your body — do not watch yourself performing from outside.
Use a first-person kinesthetic perspective
- Kinesthetic Perspective Imagery
Feel the movement from inside your body — do not watch yourself performing from outside.
- Kinesthetic Visualization
Feel the movement from inside your body — do not watch yourself performing from outside.
- Audio Visual Learning
Split visual and auditory working memory resources to process more information than either channel alone can handle.
Use spoken audio for explanations paired with visual diagrams
- Science Of Learning
"Make It Stick", by Peter Brown with psychologists Henry Roediger and Mark McDaniel, distills decades of cognitive science into a few high-leverage practices: retrieval practice, spacing, interleaving, and elaboration. Its central counterintuitive claim — that the most effective learning feels harder and slower than rereading — is backed by strong experimental evidence.
- Are Learning Styles Real
The popular idea that people have fixed learning styles (visual, auditory, kinesthetic) and learn best when instruction matches their style is not supported by controlled research. Dozens of studies have found no benefit to matching instruction style to supposed learning style. The better question is which study method works best for the specific type of content — and the answer to that question is well studied and quite different from the learning-styles framework.
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