Liaison's training philosophy is totally in-tune with our fast-paced global world where learning becomes a life-long process; where human intellectual capital is a company's primary asset. In the past on language courses, students were paced through a series of academic learning exercises. In modern 21st Century language training, emphasis is placed on teaching practical communication skills within a real world setting.

Regardless of a students language proficiency, practical conversation, comprehension, vocabulary and written skills are emphasized in Liaison's language training, giving each student an exposure to every-day North American English and French. Moreover, each session is tailored (or themed) to be relevant to the students life and work.

Liaison embraces the ACT approach (Acquisition Through Creative Teaching), a method of teaching that engages the whole person in learning large quantities of relevant material with a solid business focus. It does this by creating a mentally relaxed, richly varied, non-stressful environment, skillfully guided and orchestrated by the teacher. This approach assists students in accessing untapped learning potential with ease and enjoyment. ACT approach is largely interactive. It is based on the psychology of Carl Jung and a humanistic model of Psychosyntesis. In particular, our evolving understanding of the human brain, how it functions, what affects it, how we can assist it, has become the real foundation for this model of learning.

The Liaison methodology is also greatly influenced by the work of Georgi Lazanov, a Bulgarian psychiatrist, physician and educational researcher whose theory and methodological perspective focuses on the one goal of liberating a person extraordinary innate potential. Lazanov has spent more than 30 years investigating and applying the phenomenon of suggestion in a wide range of learning contexts. His work has attracted attention in the West for the past two decades and his influence continues to grow.

Lazanov's overall methodology is known as Suggestology and its educational application, Suggestopedia, used extensively in Liaison language training, strives to provide an understanding of and the means to liberate students from apprehension and routine social suggestive norms while creating a system of sustained continuous growth. Students' confidence in their own capacities for learning as a result increases quite considerably.

The use of suggestion in teaching languages:

• leads to an openness to learning;
• cultivates an appropriate authority and trustworthy presence rather than authoritarianism;
• evokes a strong desire to learn without constraint;
• brings students to a highly receptive, mentally relaxed state in which they are easily able to experience and process information;
• involves the uses of peripheral stimuli such as graphic illustrations,
• engages multiple levels of communication exchange such as facial expression, voice intonation, pitch, rhythm, posture, etc.

The overriding goal of Liaison Training Centre's approach to language teaching is to liberate the sub-conscious resources available to students through the skillful use of suggestion. The narrower objective is to help students develop the capacity to communicate successfully in "real world" situations rather than passing a series of grammar tests and learning and repeating by vote.

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