DifferWorld's Professional Wealth Coaching Technologies were inspired by the decades of thorough research and development work done by some of the world's greatest learning experts. It is on the bedrock of this wealth of research that DifferWorld's Professional Wealth Coaching Technologies were formulated, refined and potently used in a wealth coaching environment to produce extraordinary financial and non-financial wealth. 

DifferWorld's Professional Wealth Coaching Technologies are based on...

• Action Learning
• Action Learning was developed by Professor Reginald Revans as a process in which the potential learner is encouraged to become conscious of the results being produced as a consequence of the actions taken. This allows for the potential learner to reflect and clearly identify what needs to be done to improve both present and future performance.
  
• Professor Reginald Revans learning technology was revolutionary in that it differed greatly from traditional and conventional instructional technologies be they existing classroom, work-based and even on-the-job learning. Traditional learning being mostly a case of presenting information, guidelines and skills to the learner with a lack of focus on improving performance.
• Action Learning has its roots in various philosophical and psychological models and factors in solutions on how to enhance group based learning which has been identified as being a much more powerful method of learning as it encompasses the dimensions of learning with and from others.
  
• The basic formula of Professor Reginald Revans can be put into a fairly simple equation. P + Q = L where P is representative of the Programmed Knowledge existing in the potential learner, Q is the Questioning Process of When?, Who?, Where?, How?, What?, Why? and How Much? and L is representative of the real Learning Gained as a result. 

• Cognitive Science
• Cognition in the field of human related science is refers to the human being's ability to process information, channel knowledge, make decisions, exercise the power of choice, make inferences, plan, abstract, generalize, specialize and consciously or unconsciously change preferences. It encompasses the realms of mind, intelligence, learning, perception and reasoning and is fundamental to a human being interaction with their world.  
• Cognitive Science says that learning and development are processes through which we gain information and knowledge over time, from birth to death. Everyone is born with arguably little or no knowledge of any sort, with the exception of certain intuitive survival mechanisms. In the course of our lives we learn a great deal and cognitive science investigates and researches in an effort to explain the mechanisms behind human learning and development.
• Cognitive Science straddles the nature versus nurture debate, dwells into the arguments between innate and learned abilities and how genetics and environment both have a critical influence in what we in the DifferWorld Professional Wealth Coaching context refer to as the ability to consistently "hit the target".
• It is said that perception is reality, insofar as it is the perceiving individual's reality which could be very distinct from the real reality. Individual perception which is based on what an individual sees, hears, touches, smells or tastes is therefore critical to DifferWorld's Professional Wealth Coaching, as individuals act on what we perceive and if the perception is erroneous, the subsequent actions can be rendered futile. This again impacts human performance and productivity as actions are the result creating output of an individual's thinking and language systems.
• Another field of cognitive science with a high degree of relevance to DifferWorld's Professional Wealth Coaching is the field of Cognitive Semantics which is a subset of cognitive linguistic. The principles of cognitive semantics are that grammar is conceptualization, that usage determines conceptual structure and that language ability draws upon general cognitive resources. This field explores what it mean for lexemes (units of language such as sentences) to have meaning and beyond that what is said, what it means and what are the beliefs underlining what is being said.

• Conditional-Classical Learning
  
• Conditional-Classical Learning also known as associative learning is synonymous with the work of Ivan Pavlov the Nobel Prize winning Russian Psychologist, Physiologist and Physician. It's basic premise is that learning can easily take place through repeatedly pairing an unconditioned stimuli with a neutral stimuli to ultimately get an unconscious uncontrolled response.
  
• This is not just relevant in DifferWorld's Professional Wealth Coaching to develop empowering behaviour patterns but equally relevant in the need to often disconnect limiting behaviour patterns that have been built up over a lifetime (that can sometimes be traced over generations) that are detrimental to financial and non -financial wealth creation, protection, multiplication, enjoyment and contribution.

• Reinforcement Learning
• Reinforcement Learning is a concept adopted from the field of computer science which is used in a machine learning  context that also points to a form of human learning. Reinforcement learning concerns itself with how a machine takes actions within the context of an environment so as to maximize rewards.
• Humans operate in the same way and can create reinforcement programs consciously to allow themselves to automate the maximizing of rewards for the greatest long term good of collective financial and non-financial wealth. This involves finding striking a workable balance between exploration of areas of ignorance and engaging areas of knowledge.

• Observational Learning
• Observational Learning while the most common learning process is often also the least conscious. This is because it is a process through which people learn by imitating observations and repeating them for better or worse.
  
• It is often used in a great way in DifferWorld's Professional Wealth Coaching when empowering environments are created for multiple coachees to learn best practices and strategies for excellence from one another.

• Experiential Learning
• Experiential Learning is the process of learning through imagination and direct experience. It was first pioneered in 1938 by John Dewey in his book entitled Experience and Education in which he made a strong case against teachers who delivered information without focusing enough on the student's learning experience.
• 70 years on corporate training and classroom based education still has not fully escaped the clutches of delivering information without relevance to application and assimilation through experience.
• The basic principles of Experiential Learning used in the DifferWorld Professional Wealth Coaching context is the use of relevant exercises, simulations, games, stories, scenarios and role plays to engage the coachee towards expanding their point of view, allowing new insights, valuable knowledge and experience to be assimilated such that the coachee can then use them exponentially for life.

• Human Development Learning
• Human development learning factors in human psychology which is is mostly ignored by educators, trainers, speakers and consultants but is naturally of great relevance in the world of DifferWorld's Professional Wealth Coaching which is focused on boosting profitability, performance and fulfillment in and through human beings.
• In DifferWorld's Wealth Coaching we pay careful attention to 5 fundamentals first postulated by James Bugental in 1964  which can be stated in the following...
• Human beings need to be looked at in entirety and should not be broken down into component parts
• Human beings have a unique human context which needs to be appreciated in full
• Human beings have a unique consciousness that includes an awareness of themselves in context to others
• Human beings have an ability to exercise choice and take responsibilities
• Human beings intentionally create meaning, value and exercise creativity

• Socratic Learning
  
• Socratic Learning, Socratic Teaching, Socratic Debate and the Socratic Method all involve at some level the need to engage in a Socratic Dialogue which is a method of inquiry identified with its original known proponent - Socrates.
• DifferWorld's Professional Wealth Coaching is primarily a dialogue, a dialogue between a coach and the coachees to assist the coachees eliminate contradictions and consciously create an aligned target and to win through hitting it, while keeping a bigger picture in mind.
• Part of this process involves Socratic Questioning which in the DifferWorld Professional Wealth Coaching context is the expert employment of at least 12 types of questions which can briefly stated as clarifying questions, specifying questions, exploring questions, reasoning questions, assumptive questions, evidence questions, point of view questions, view point questions, implication questions, consequences questions, probing questions and questioning questions.

• Neuro-Science Learning
• Neuro-Science is at the cutting edge of uncovering how the human brain, nervous system and mind inter-operate in the process of perceiving, receiving and deceiving human experience. And how human biology and experience influence one another.
• In simple terms "The task of neural science is to explain behavior in terms of the brain. How does the brain marshal its millions of individual nerve cells to produce behavior, and how are these cells influenced by the environment...? The last frontier of the biological sciences - their ultimate challenge - is to understand the biological basis of consciousness and the mental process by which we perceive, act, learn and remember." - Eric Kandel, Principles of Neuro Science
• Applying Neuro-Science to DifferWorld's Professional Wealth Coaching is to include an appreciation of structure - which gives you a visual picture, function - which points to use, development - be it psychological or physiological, genetics - historical traits and trends, biochemistry - compositions of the human being being coached to not miss the underlying factors but to employ them towards winning.
  

• Further to the above, part of DifferWorld's Professional Wealth Coaching Technologies are inspired by and includes the basic study of the works and life of the following with the intention that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
  
• Erik Erickson, Jean Piaget, Carl Jung, Eric Fromm, Otto Rank, B.F.Skinner, Abraham Maslow, Sigmund Freud, Carl Rogers, Fritz Perls, Anaxagoras, St Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle, Swami Vivekananda, Baruch Spinoza, Socrates, Senecca, Jean Paul Satre, Bertrand Russel, Sarrepalli Radhakrishnan, Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi, Simone de Beauvoir, George Berkley, Albert Einstein, Neils Bohrs, David Bohm, Confucius, Mencius, Gautama Buddha, Mohammad, Jesus, Krishna, Chuang-Tzu, Nicolaus Copernicus, Charles Darwin, Democritus, Plato, Friedrich Nietzsche, Issac Newton, John Stuart Mill, Marcus Aurelius, John Locke, Leonardo da Vinci, David Hume, Soren Kierkegaard, Immanuel Kant, Johannes Kepler, Rene Descartes, Epicurus, Benjamin Franklin, Galileo Galilei, Johan Wolfgang von Goethe, Martin Heidegger, David Hume, Homer, Hermes, Heraclitus,  Benedict de Spinoza, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Adam Smith, Thomas Mun, John Locke, Francois Quesnay, David Recardo, Milton Friedman, John Maynard Keynes, Thomas Malthus, Amartya Sen, Buckminster Fuller, Warren Buffett, Chris Argyris, Jim Collins, Peter Drucker, Edwards Deming, Stephen Covey, Bill Gates, Gary Hamel, Myers-Briggs, Oscar Ichazo, Don Riso, Russ Hudson, C.K. Prahalad, Jack Welch, Andrew Carnegie, Ayn Rand, Krishnamurthi, Ken Wilber, Noam Chomsky, Rabindranath Tagore, Richard Dawkins, John F Kennedy, Robert F Kennedy, Umberto Eco, Khalil Gibran, Arthur Schopenhauer, Francis Bacon, Oscar Wilde, William Shakespeare, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Publilius Syrus, Thomas Jefferson, Eckhart Tolle, Carl Sagan, The Bagavad Gita, The Dhammapada, The Koran, The Bible, The Tao Te Ching, The Analects, The Torah, The Guru Granth Sahib amongst others.