Dr.
Georgi Lozanov
Dr.Georgi
Lozanov of the Institute of
Suggestology in Sofia, Bulgaria is, together with his colleagues, the originator
of these techniques. SUGGESTOLOGY is the study of the power of suggestion which
can be verbal, non-verbal, conscious or unconscious.
SUGGESTOPEDIA
is the study of these suggestive factors within a learning situation.
We
are constantly surrounded by suggestive influences. If we study them and become
aware of them, then we are in a better position to “choose” which ones we
want to influence us. Lozanov maintains that a suggestopedic teacher spends most
of the time de-suggesting the students, i.e. freeing them from any non-facilitating influences from their past. From birth onwards we are influenced by
parents, friends, teachers, society, the media, the weather, the food we eat and
the political environment in which we live.