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Footnotes VMT Training Courses

Straightforward to learn, easy to teach, and highly adaptable to any individual or situation. Suitable for all ages from 5 years & older.

These courses pioneered by Oliver West, work best alongside normal everyday life. In other words, we invite you to journey with Footnotes. You get to choose the pace and the depth of interaction. You can start, pause and multi-layer your courses whenever you like. You can also qualify to facilitate and train others in any of the 33 “Grid” Modules.

We love to work relationally; our coaches offer one-to-one or group online mentoring for each module. Some courses are available as an online step-by-step course that you can purchase online (i.e. Tracker Grid), More are being created and will be added soon.

You might be keen to explore your unique learning style? Check out the VMT Awareness Course. Or maybe you want to explore the use of the 33 Grid Module Courses to support you in everyday life? Or bring some of your questions to a Footnotes coach.?

For example: Activate your imagination! Or get the book as a practical course, Or go digital with the App! These & additional service provider courses are available in the mix!

Let Footnotes be alongside you when it really matters.

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Below are a selection of the Footnotes Grid Modules currently available. Each of these courses offers a focused use of the Footnotes Program Grid-ing strategies.  The Grid modules complement one another, giving freedom to begin where ever you choose. There are specific grids for specific challenges but they all work together to build the bigger picture! It’s common for individuals to be using anything between 3 and 7 Grids in conjunction. That said, The use of one Grid can bear good fruit very quickly all on its own.


Footnotes VMT Grid Modules 


  • Tracker Grid

    Tracker Grid

    Pocket-sized or as an App on your device, the Tracker Grid tracks “life” and its twists and turns. Whether it’s journaling at the speed of thought, or tracking the development of a long term project, the Tracker Grid can go with you, every step of the way! 

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    Number of lessons: 34

  • Capture Grid

    Capture Grid

    Footnotes Capture Grids allow us to see the process of our thoughts and those potential moments of genius that are often dismissed or forgotten. These gems, once captured, can be transferred from the Capture Grid into other Grid strategies, to be grown and developed. 

    Oliver West Oliver West

    Number of lessons: 0

  • Perspectives Grid

    Perspectives Grid

    Perspectives  A stress buster strategy that helps you to engage life with perspective. Find your truth without losing sight of others. Be empowered to make informed choices. Find the fair and favourable way. Feel the buzz of seeing in proportion. See the wood from the trees. 

    Oliver West Oliver West

    Number of lessons: 0

  • Distraction Grid

    Distraction Grid

    Feel the calm effect when distractions are identified and managed. Learn how to partner with your multi-layered thinking abilities, whilst being efficiently on task! A must have strategy for taming those busy head tendencies! 

    Oliver West Oliver West

    Number of lessons: 0

  • Assessment Grid

    Assessment Grid

    Take stock, estimate and evaluate with ease. This confidential self-assessment strategy quickly helps you to see how you are getting on, individually or as a whole group. Save time and effort with this real time assessment tool, helping you make the most of your abilities.

    Oliver West Oliver West

    Number of lessons: 0

  • Expansion Grid

    Expansion Grid

    A compact, thought packing tool, for growing large amounts of information, quickly. Designed to encourage as you watch the smallest of concepts take shape before your eyes! This easily expandable Gridding technique will also comfortably integrate at a later date with other Grids and documents, helping you to stay on task without loosing site of the details.

    Oliver West Oliver West

    Number of lessons: 0

  • Decision Making Grid

    Decision Making Grid

    Facilitates the answers to life’s biggest, and smallest, questions. Make confident decisions on your own or as a group. See the inspired choice and back it up with well thought out evidence. Rarely is decision making a one off thing, so Grid the big picture so as to carry on making sound decisions more of the time! The Decision Making Grid offers help to take the stress out of the big and littles decisions in life!

    Oliver West Oliver West

    Number of lessons: 0

  • Re-Vision Grid

    Re-Vision Grid

    Awaken your instinctual memory skills. Photographic memory styled strategies that take the sweat out of swatting! A framework of “Gridding” techniques that enable you to organise, store & rapidly retrieve information. Longterm memory strategies that really last!

    Oliver West Oliver West

    Number of lessons: 0

  • Organiser Grid

    Organiser Grid

    Encounter Rest, with this flexy organiser tool. Relish the spaces whilst managing all that needs to be achieved. Have time left over because you saw the big picture and found the better way.

    Oliver West Oliver West

    Number of lessons: 0

  • Time Series Grids

    Time Series Grids

    Partner with “Time” on your side. Generous strategies that enable you in the minute by minute and the help you to frame up time a head of you. Enjoy the moment you are in whilst taking practical steps towards your future!

    Oliver West Oliver West

    Number of lessons: 0

  • Memory Recall Grid

    Memory Recall Grid

    Refresh your memory, with self-made prompts. Find your way down memory lane. Strategies that help to open up memory pathways to recall historic experiences, feelings and timely events.

    Oliver West Oliver West

    Number of lessons: 0

  • Hopes & Dreams Grid

    Hopes & Dreams Grid

    Be surprised by joy, realise dreams & set aspirations free. These are just some of the regularly found outcomes from doing this simple but inspiring activity, that opens your imaginations gates whilst promoting realistic goals. These “Gridding”tasks actively reminds us to not despise small beginnings, to make a start and see it through. For personal development or shared, Hopes and Dreams Grids help to reveal what you are really made of!

    Oliver West Oliver West

    Number of lessons: 0

  • Enterprise Grid

    Enterprise Grid

    Make plans a reality, no matter how big or small, simple or complex. This series of expandable and interrelating Grids, enables easily updatable project management. Watch how even a fleeting idea can be formalised & appropriated in sight of other concepts and parameters. Don’t delay start today!

    Oliver West Oliver West

    Number of lessons: 0

  • Déjà Vu Series Grids

    Déjà Vu Series Grids

    “Don’t do it again!” Reframe your behaviour with this confidential application which frames up positive change for good!. This gentle giant of a strategy puts you and your intuition in charge. Leave shame and disappointment behind and be empowered to make a brand new start!

    Oliver West Oliver West

    Number of lessons: 0

  • Research Grid

    Research Grid

    A start to finish mapping companion, that helps you choose, use or shelve large amounts of enquiry in a compact, take it anywhere format. With suggestions of how to search and note take, the Research Grid helps you to interpret direct and organise your information. Its very adaptable for when your project changes its course, even late in the day!

    Oliver West Oliver West

    Number of lessons: 0

  • Revelation Grid

    Revelation Grid

    Reach for the stars, make discoveries beyond definition, whilst encountering the multilayered you. This exhilarating “Gridding” activity, helps to push back the mundane to reveal the precious truth. As with all of the “Grids” this confidential activity helps to still the world around you and find your world within!

    Oliver West Oliver West

    Number of lessons: 0

  • Words & Spelling Grid

    Words & Spelling Grid

    Transform your ability to spell with wonderfully personalised memory triggers. In the same activity, leave yourself reminders of what that word means and even how you can use it. A strategy that is quick easy and fun to learn, boosting confidence and one which helps to forge a new found love of language.

    Oliver West Oliver West

    Number of lessons: 0

  • Sentence Maker Grid

    Sentence Maker Grid

    Its one thing to see what you want to describe, its another to actually type it! This liberating tool enables the access and delivery of sequenced information in a confident and accurate way. Word by word or whole sentences at a time, see breakthroughs in literacy abilities and a great sense of achievement to boot!

    Oliver West Oliver West

    Number of lessons: 0

  • Spatial Reading Grid

    Spatial Reading Grid

    Feel the acceleration with these transformational reading and researching techniques. A hugely enjoyable and engaging way of starting or renewing the way you access the written word. It helps to calm the sea of text while enhancing your accuracy. The experience is memorable too, helping you to hold on to the meaning whilst setting your imagination free!

    Oliver West Oliver West

    Number of lessons: 0

  • Sequential Reading Grid

    Sequential Reading Grid

    Focussed reading skills which track with you all the way to the bottom of the page. The built in visualisation and memory techniques support accurate sequenced understanding, whilst helping you to remember it too! An exhilarating strategy for early and seasoned readers like!

    Oliver West Oliver West

    Number of lessons: 0

  • Grammar & Punctuation Grid

    Grammar & Punctuation Grid

    A simple but visually effective tool for mapping your way through the “rules” of written communications. This expandable application need never go out of date. Its format allows for updates and alterations as you hone your style and influence language. Suitable for all ages and adaptable for all languages .

    Oliver West Oliver West

    Number of lessons: 0

  • Numerical Grid

    Numerical Grid

    For those occasions when your math just doesn’t add up! This numbers and symbols translation strategy helps to harness the mysteries of the Where?!,When?! and Why’s?! of arithmetic. Helping you to assimilate and grow your figures in a real and practical way.

    Oliver West Oliver West

    Number of lessons: 0

  • Writing Grid

    Writing Grid

    Discover your writing flow with this inspiring thought to text translation tool. With its birds eye view approach, theres no need to “start at the very beginning”. As you populate your “Grids” be amazed how fast the project comes together. See it, form it and then write it with ease. No waffle, no repeating, no plagiarism, just your image inspired words. No story too short or tall!

    Oliver West Oliver West

    Number of lessons: 0

  • Presentation Grid

    Presentation Grid

    Say it well with integrity. A dedicated speak it planner, which ensures that you stay on topic. No need to read from notes or loose eye contact with your audience. Re-sequence and have timing accuracy, in the moment. so you can enjoy the experience and still be primed for Q&A’s. Its like having your imaginary friend right there with you.

    Oliver West Oliver West

    Number of lessons: 0

  • Languages Translation Grid

    Languages Translation Grid

    A multilayered approach to storing meaning across various languages. Useful for in-depth translation or for just getting by when on the fly. Easy to create, fast to recall, culturally sensitive memory aids for the moments when you need to know “How you say”

    Oliver West Oliver West

    Number of lessons: 0

  • Language & Speech Recovery Grid

    Language & Speech Recovery Grid

    Recollect & retrain. A series of activities that aid sub conscious memory recall and discovery. Reawaken memory and forgotten skills of the the tongue, using audio and visual prompts. Recover your voice from within!

    Oliver West Oliver West

    Number of lessons: 0

  • Decoder Grid

    Decoder Grid

    Enabling accurate understanding of instructions and test questions. Quick to use, this step by step translation Grid, helps you to correctly see whats required. A handy decode & overview activity for when every minute counts. Don’t get stuck in words, learn to see through them!

    Oliver West Oliver West

    Number of lessons: 0

  • Safeguarding Grid

    Safeguarding Grid

    A go to confidential activity for recording sensitive information. A safe space to describe the indescribable, sometimes to save and other times to delete. To share or not share. For individual and professional guided use, this effective tool opens the possibilities for incremental successes whilst safeguarding the story.

    Oliver West Oliver West

    Number of lessons: 0

  • Dialogue Grid

    Dialogue Grid

    Keep it fair & square with this No regrets conversation planner that lets everyone have there say. It features preplan, prompt, vote and record suggestions, promoting a good experience for one & all. With coded Grids you can share with confidence, just the bits that fit.

    Oliver West Oliver West

    Number of lessons: 0

  • Mediation Grid

    Mediation Grid

    Facilitating “the go between”. The Mediation Grid offers structures for creating a non obtrusive third party identity for forging agreements between two or more people. All parties benefit from the confidential and non confrontational visual code which enables a sustained dialogue culture. Amicable methods of recording and safeguarding make its so easy to exit and reenter the process at any stage.

    Oliver West Oliver West

    Number of lessons: 0

  • Reconciliation Grid

    Reconciliation Grid

    Begin again. A series of non confrontational, step by step activities, that offer unconditional and confidential dialogue openers & closers. These flexibly structured activities offer multiple routes to points of agreement that help build a narrative for constructive ways forward. You need never divulge more than you want to, whilst ensuring that you’ve shared what might just give reconciliation a chance.

    Oliver West Oliver West

    Number of lessons: 0

  • Bereavement Grid

    Bereavement Grid

    A private space for you to itemise & remember as thoughts come to mind. An encouraging tool to acknowledge process, resolve & inform decisions, with the open & close action of the“Gridding”process. Experience the shift as you identify, mourn & celebrate in balance. Watch as the Grid shows you that this may not be the end that you thought but possibly a brand new beginning.

    Oliver West Oliver West

    Number of lessons: 0

  • Sound Trigger Grid

    Sound Trigger Grid

    Awaken hidden Inherent abilities using sound translation Grids. Be amazed what sound to image can do for aiding learning & communication. This effective tool, triggers memory, unlocks skills to learn, sequence & share information. See dramatic breakthroughs for individuals with learning differences whilst learning how amazingly skilled they already are !

    Oliver West Oliver West

    Number of lessons: 0

Footnotes VMT Service Provider Courses 

Quickly gain training and certification to facilitate others in your chosen module/s. You can start the professional training and service provider courses alongside any of the Grid Training Modules.

  • Footnotes Facilitator Trainer – Certification

    Footnotes Facilitator Trainer – Certification

    Qualify as a professional Footnotes Facilitator trainer. Train Footnotes Facilitators in 1 or more of the 33 Grid Modules available. Establish regional Footnotes co-ordinator projects in your part of the world Grow your team as part of the international Footnotes community.

    Oliver West Oliver West

    Number of lessons: 2

  • Become A Footnotes Facilitator – Training & Accredication

    Become A Footnotes Facilitator – Training & Accredication

    Blend your life’s experience and knowledge with the Footnotes Facilitator Programme. Footnotes makes it easy for you to formalise your relevant skills, so that both you and the people you support can find the right flow. Enjoy enabling in your unique way, whilst gaining the skills and permissions to join the wider community of professional game changers. A robust course for endurance facilitators. “There’s always another way” Be transformational, outside of the box!

    Oliver West Oliver West

    Number of lessons: 0

  • Footnotes Embedded – Organisation Accreditation

    Footnotes Embedded – Organisation Accreditation

    The Footnotes Programme is applicable to many facets of a community. The benefits of the use of Visual Multilayered Thinking techniques ( VMT ) can be dramatically increased when Footnotes is embedded and understood by a community as a whole. This course offers a framework of VMT friendly solutions, which can be introduced alongside existing routines. Accreditation is offered as a way of evidencing and maintaining methods of good practice which support and enable all kinds of minds.

    Oliver West Oliver West

    Number of lessons: 15

Personal Development Courses

  • VMT Awareness Training

    VMT Awareness Training

    Understand and activate VMT - Visual Multilayered Thinking abilities. Find a more comfortable way with joined-up thinking. Achieve with ease, by seeing the big picture. Discover new layers of peace in Identity, both personally and in the world around. This course aims to help you to harness your strengths through VMT thinking and to find your unique and excellent way.

    Oliver West Oliver West

    Number of lessons: 0

  • Imagination – Keys to Transformation

    Imagination – Keys to Transformation

    Awaken Imagination, see breakthroughs in life, discover destiny and realise dreams! Experience how opening your Imagination gates awakens intuition and activates new pathways in your brain! Learn how to manage multi-layered thinking and streamline your attention. Enjoy how inspiration brings freedom and transforms lives.

    Oliver West Oliver West

    Number of lessons: 0

  • In Search Of Words – Practical Course Version

    In Search Of Words – Practical Course Version

    A practical hands on accompaniment to the book In Search Of Words. As you track with the contents of the book, you will be guided to create personal to you Grids. You’ll learn how “VMT” visual multi-layered thinking techniques can enhance your own inherent abilities whilst learning how to relate better to others with learning styles that are different to yours.

    Oliver West Oliver West

    Number of lessons: 0

  • Footnotes App Training

    Footnotes App Training

    The powers of digital Grid-ing explained. Harness intuition and desire as you learn how to make the most of the Footnotes Visual Multi-layered Thinking App. Imagine, innovate, translate, organize, and communicate. An all-in-one adaptable digital space on your computer or touchscreen device.

    Oliver West Oliver West

    Number of lessons: 0

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