Eric Jensen, author of Brain-Based Learning says brain-based learning "is learning in accordance with the way the brain is naturally designed to learn.  [Brain-based teaching] is a multi-disciplinary approach that is built on the fundamental question, "What is good for the brain?" (Jensen, p. 6)

According to Renate and Geoffrey Caine, there are twelve basic principles that define how the brain works :

1. The brain is a living system: body, mind and brain are one dynamic unity.
2. The brain/mind is social.
3. The search for meaning is innate.
4. The search for meaning occurs through patterning.
5. Emotions are critical to patterning.
6. Every brain simultaneously perceives and creates parts and wholes.
7. Learning involves both focused attention and peripheral perception.
8. Learning always involves conscious and unconscious processes.
9. We have at least two ways of organizing memory: spatial memory system and a set of systems for rote learning
10. Learning is developmental.
11. Complex learning is enhanced by challenge and inhibited by threat.
12. Each brain is uniquely organized.

	Listing principles about how the brain works doesn't teach anyone how to be a better trainer.      Let's look at how the learners use this information.
	How do learners absorb information? How does the brain use information? What kind of environment is most conducive to brain-based learning?