Whole Brain Approach 

By Amanda Pool 

In my Wisdom Literature theology class, we were first asked to dive into scripture and really analyze what the text was saying and then analyze different perspectives, cultural/time context and all the metaphorical details of what was being said in the passage. This was clearly left brained usage, because of the tactical and logical reasoning that we were using to come with educated evaluations of the scripture. After this, the professor asked us all to get into groups and grab markers and poster board. We were then instructed to get creative, and draw out our vision using pictures or diagrams to explain what we thought was happening. This activity encouraged us to think outside of the box, and to stop thinking so literally about what we had read. As a group, we were able to play, collaborate by working as a team, and share our individual ideas together until we came to consensus. This part of the activity was more right-brained because we were getting to create a visual for our words.

Personally, the right-brained section of the activity benefited my group by allowing each of us to share our thoughts and represent that image on paper. We then got to share what we learned with the class, which was much more than what we had learned on our own. Working as a team was beneficial to our learning process.

However, the left-brained section at that start was helpful so that we were able to gather our thoughts and feelings before jumping right in to group work. Therefore, Both left and right tactics are important to the learning process overall. In the future I will be more intentional with my work and make sure that I am taking care of both left and right brained processes to benefit my projects, etc.