Tianmei's World Academy Intro | 天美的世界学院介绍

"Since different environments influence behaviors, emotions and ways of thinking, then we have the choice to understand this influence and empower ourselves to create environments that will change behaviors for the better, enhance levels of wellbeing and develop individual potential."
“由于不同环境对行为、情绪和思维方式的影响，因此我们可以选择了解这种影响如何，并赋予自己创造更适合自己需求的环境的权力，使行为变得更好，提高幸福感，开发个人潜力。”

——邱天美Adina，Tianmei's World Academy Founder | 天美的世界学院创始人

What is Tianmei's World Academy?

天美的世界学院是什么？

Tianmei's World Academy (TMWA) is a decentralized “network of classrooms” school concept, using environmental psychology knowledge with the aim to redefine where and how learning happens. 

天美的世界学院（TMWA）是一个分散式“教室网络”学校概念，利用环境心理学知识，旨在重新定义学习的地点和方式。

By doing so, it brings high quality learning opportunities closer to learners across cultural, geographical and language barriers. 

By experiencing the different learning environments that the academy creates, individuals can better understand what kind of learning environments and methods are most suitable for their own learning and self-development needs, apply them in their daily lives and maximize their individual potential against “one-size-fits-all” educational methods currently in use in many institutions/organizations.

通过这样做，学院使高质量的学习机会更接近跨越文化、地理和语言障碍的学习者。

通过体验学院创造的不同学习环境，个人可以更好地了解什么样的学习环境和方法最适合自己的学习和自我发展需要，在日常生活中运用这些方法，最大限度地发挥个人潜力，并突破目前许多机构/组织采用的“一刀切”的教育方法。

Our vision

愿景

We understand that individual talent is not so reliant on individual ability, but can be harnessed through proper learning environments and methods. By providing the knowldge and tools to do so, we make the world a better place with happier people. 

我们明白，个人的才能并不那么依赖于个人的能力，而是可以通过适当的学习环境和方法提升。通过提供创造更适合自己的环境的知识和工具，我们让世界变得更美好，提高人们的幸福感。

Our mission 

使命

Empower each and every individual to understand how to create better living, learning and working environments suitable for their own individual needs by leveraging the power of environmental psychology research.

通过环境心理学研究的力量，使每个人都能理解如何创造更好的生活、学习和工作环境，以满足自己成长的需要，同时促进多元化和包容性。

Our values 

价值观

Diversity (in delivery methods), 

Inclusivess (to different needs), 

Equality (in starting points and access to opportunities), 

Cross-functional dialog (to promote systems thinking)

在教学方式方面的多样性、

能满足不同需求的包容性、

在起点和机会方面的平等性、

促进系统性思维的跨行业交流

Educational Principles 

教育理念

01

Learning happens everywhere, depending what you want to learn and why (purpose).
学习无处不在。重点在于你想学什么以及为什么要学，有没有明确的目标。

02

There are multiple ways of learning, so explore to find the one most suitable for your own needs.

学习的方法有很多种，所以要探索找到最适合你自己需求的方法才能发挥个人天赋。

03

Talent depends on how nurturing one's environment is, not on individual ability.
人才取决于一个人所在的环境是否养育，而不是个人能力。

04

Everyone loves to learn, if they find the suitable learning method and environments for their own learning needs.

每个人都喜欢学习，只需要找到适合自己学习需要的方法和环境而已。

Our definition of the environment

Our working model 

应用模式

Our educational framework 

教育框架

Throughout 3 years of continuous research and testing, we have developed a unique educational framework. 

It provides a diverse range of learning methods and environments for attendees to choose for themselves the most suitable ones instead of settling for one-size-fits-all learning styles, yet obtaining the same learning outcomes across various methods and environments: enhanced critical, creative and systems thinking skills with a boost of self-confidence and empathy levels.  

经过3年的持续研究和测试，我们开发了一个独特的教育框架。

它为与会者提供了多种多样的学习方法和环境，允许他们通过亲身体验而自己选择最适合自己的学习方式和环境，同时，突破“一刀切”的学习方式。在这个过程中，学员们将获得了相同的学习成果：增强的批判性，创造力和系统思维能力，增强自信和同理心，并且证明学习有好多种，也没有对错，只有适不适合自己而已。

（If you want to read the research behind this framework, please click the above image to open the report.

如果你想阅读这个框架背后的学术研究，请点击上图打开报告。）

第一阶段：

破冰环节，允许参与者一下子放松并且熟悉周边环境，进入学习心态

第二阶段：

输入环节，通过观看、聆听输入新知识。无论是书籍、电影、讲座等其他内容，新知识都在我们的身边

第三阶段：

输出环节，通过小组协作参与者们将能表达对输入内容的观点，以便建立更多链接，开阔思维

第四阶段：

反思环节，允许参与者们反思在体验中的收获，对刚学习的内容产生更深刻的印象，长期记住

Brand Meaning 

品牌含义

“Tianmei's World” represents a set of values that the founder wants to promote.

“Tianmei” is a person who just happened to come across some ideas and concepts that she felt more people should know about and be able to use. 

As such, the “Tianmei” in “Tianmei's World” is not about the person, but about the values promoted. Any person who believes in the values that “Tianmei's World”aims to promote is “Tianmei”.

The “world” represents the environment that we are trying to create through the values that we promote and the work that we do. 

We believe that if we want to see a change in the world, we have to start by changing our own behaviors and mindsets. 

As such, every project we work on in “Tianmei's World” represents our commitment to bringing about this change in ourselves and others.

“天美的世界”代表着创始人想传达的一系列价值。

“天美”只是想出了一些点子和概念的一个人，觉得更多人应该知道并应用这些知识而已。

如此，“天美的世界”里的“天美”不是代表了一个人，而是代表所提倡的价值和理念。任何相信“天美的世界”所推广理念的人，都是“天美”。

“天美的世界”里的“世界”代表着我们想要通过我们推广的价值观及设计的所有项目而创造的环境。

我们相信，如果我们想要世界有所改变，我们要从改变我们自己的行为、思维模式开始。

因此，我们在“天美的世界”做的所有项目，都代表着我们对创造我们想要的环境的承诺。

More about us 

关于我们更多内容

Below you can watch a documentary that was made about Tianmei's World Academy and its' mission. The documentary is just 13 minutes long. 

下面您可以看一部关于天美的世界学院及其使命的纪录片。纪录片一共有13分钟。

Founder's Story 

创始人故事

With the help of her Environmental Psychology expertise, Adina got from 0 Chinese skills to HSK 5 level in less than 3 years. 

Having such a learning experience, Adina is convinced that language learning is not a matter of talent, but a matter of creating a proper environment with suitable learning tools for personal needs and styles, which is a point she is trying to make through all the educational projects that she designs through the Academy.

She spent more than 10 frustrating years on the road to self-discovery, changing many jobs in different fields ranging from architecture & design to sales & marketing. 

在环境心理学知识的帮助下，邱天美在三年时间内，就从中文零基础达到了汉语水平考试（HSK）5级水平（最高的水平为6级）。

有了这种学习经历，邱天美可以确信，学习语言与天赋无关。她认为语言学习只需要创造一个与个人习惯相符，有着合适学习工具的环境。这也是她在“天美的世界学院”尽力去做的。

她花了十年的时间，磕磕绊绊，换了各种各样的工作，有建筑、设计、销售、市场等其他领域，最终才实现了自我发现。

Along the way, she realized that very often we talk about the same concepts across industries, but we just call them differently, thus creating a lot of confusion and increasing the risk of conflict. 

This happens even more so when we believe that we are speaking the same language, as we rarely express the actual meaning that we attribute to the words we use, meaning which is dictated by our past experiences. 

She came to the conclusion that following the industrialist era when everybody had to fit under certain patterns in order to increase productivity, both the economical and educational systems ended up targeting the majority, ignoring individual needs. 

In other words, one either fits within the system or they're considered to be the one with the problem. 

Adina argues that this model is not applicable in current society anymore, thus through all the projects and workshops that she designs and delivers, she is now on a mission to change the system and how people view education and turn the world into a big classroom, while creating better learning, working and living environments for the people and purpose these environments serve. 

在这段经历中，她意识到了我们经常在不同的领域讨论相同的概念，但是用的名词不同，这就造成了很多误解，增加了产生冲突的风险。

这种情况在平时说话时更为常见：我们相信既然讲相同的语言，就不需要过于直接地表达意思，但是别人不一定会理解我们的真实想法。

天美发现，在工业革命时代，为了提高生产力，每个人都要适应“尽一切可能提高生产力”的模式。那时，不论是经济还是教育系统都在追求最大的效果，而忽略个体需求。

换句话说，一个人要么主动适应这个系统，要么被周围人认为是有问题的人。

邱天美认为，这种模式已经不适用于当今社会，因此，通过她提供的所有研究、设计和学习项目，她现在承担的任务是改变教育体系，改变人们如何看待教育，把世界变成一个大教室，同时，帮人们创造更好的学习、工作、居住环境，让环境帮助人。

What is environmental psychology? How can it help?

环境心理学是什么？它能如何帮助我们？

Below is a 7 min. video explaining the basics.

下面是一部7分钟的视频，讲解基本知识。

Services offered 提供的服务

01

Tailored experiential learning environments design (workshop-style)定制体验式学习环境设计（工作坊形式）
Be it on an individual or organizational level, life-long learning is very important skill to have. With the abundance of information in the informationl era, what people are missing is not the information itself, but the awareness and tools to filter what is most suitable for their own situation. 
As such, we don't teach knowledge, but use the knowledge abundantly available to create unique learning environments in which learners can experience learning environments, methods and tools to allow them to understand what is most suitable for them, become independent thinkers while improving language, critical, systems, creative thinking skills. 
Suitable for: young adults, companies

无论是在个人还是组织层面，终身学习都是非常重要的技能。随着信息时代信息的日益丰富，人们所缺少的不是信息本身，而是筛选出最适合自己情况的信息的意识和工具，以便做出更明知的决定。

因此，我们不教授知识，而是利用丰富的知识创造独特的学习环境，让学习者体验并了解最适合自己的学习环境、方法和工具有哪些，成为独立思考者，同时提高语言、批判性、系统性和创造性思维能力。

服务对象：白领，企业

02

Environmental Psychology Lectures 环境心理学讲座

If your organization wants to know more about how to use environmental psychology knowledge to create better learning and working environments for your employees, we are here to support you! 
Topics covered: 

1. environmental psychology tools to enhance learning and working environments, with the aim to increase work productivity and inner motivation

2. using environmental cues to support behavioral and mindset change, 

3. how to set a learning/working goal and achieve it through the employment of environmental cues

4. architectural design's influence on learning and working behaviors

5. others depending on each organization's needs

Suitable for：schools, corporations, architecture companies, real-estate developers, service companies etc.

如果您的公司想了解更多关于如何利用环境心理学知识为你的员工创造更好的学习和工作环境，我们将在这里为你提供支持！

主题包括：

1. 如何改善学习和工作环境的环境心理学工具，以提升学习效果、工作效率为目的

2. 如何利用环境设计支持行为和思维方式的改变

3. 如何设定学习/工作目标并通过使用环境线索来实现

4. 建筑设计对学习和工作行为的影响

5. 其他取决于每个组织的需要

服务对象：学校、企业

03

Academic research
学术研究
If you are a company and want to have academic support in allowing your customers to understad the added value of your product or service, you are welcome to get in touch with us.
Suitable for: organizations

根据最先进的学术研究而证明自己的服务或产品符合用户心理。如果你是一家公司，希望获得学术支持，让你的客户了解你的产品或服务的附加值，欢迎你与我们联系。

服务对象：企业

04

Research-based design (user-centric design approach)
研究性设计（以用户为中心的设计方法）

If you want to use the latest findings in environmental psychology research to support your products' or services' design and make sure that they respond to users' psychological needs, then you are in great hands! 
Suitable for: companies

如果你想利用环境心理学研究的最新发现来支持你的产品或服务的设计，并确保它们能满足用户的心理需求，那么你就掌握了大好时机！

服务对象：公司、创业项目
For any of the above services, please contact us at:  [e-mail].
想要咨询以上任何一服务，欢迎联系：[e-mail]。

Additional Value 

附加值

Apart from innovating educational frameworks and ways of doing business, our company functions on the social entrepreneurship principles. As such, all our profit goes into funding an NGO to Social Entrepreneurship Pivoting Platform. 

The idea came from the realization that even if charities and NGOs have a good purpose, the way they use the money is not sustainable and are always reliant on donors, who sometimes are not easy to find. This means that they fall at risk of stopping their projects when money runs out.

The academy proposes to repurpose charity fundraising into an investment fund to assist NGOs to pivot to a social enterprise business model, become sustainable and financially viable, thus create more value with less money. 

This project is still under development, so if you want to know more or get involved, you are welcome to write an email at [e-mail].

除了创新教育框架和经营方式外，我们公司还遵循社会创业原则。因此，我们所有的利润都用于资助一个非政府组织转向社会创业平台。

这个想法源于这样一种发现：即使慈善机构和非政府组织有一个好的目的，他们使用资金的方式并不可持续，而且总是依赖捐助者，而捐助者有时并不容易找到。这意味着，当资金耗尽时，他们将面临停止项目的风险。

“天美的世界”学院提出将慈善筹款重新定位为投资基金，以帮助非政府组织转向社会企业商业模式，实现可持续发展和财务可行性，从而用更少的钱创造更多的价值。

这个项目仍在开发中，所以如果你想知道更多或参与，欢迎你联系我们：[e-mail]。

Addressing the SDGs 

应对可持续发展目标

Through the system that our business model is developing, we are in the unique position to address multiple SDGs at the same time. 

通过我们的业务模式正在开发的系统，我们处于同时处理多个SDG的独特位置。

As the extent to which the Academy is contributing to the achievement of the SDGs is still under research, you may read in the below article how we contribute to the achievement of SDG4.

由于学院对可持续发展目标的具体贡献还在研究中，大家可以在下面的文章中阅读天美的世界学院如何为SDG4的成就做出贡献。

Opinion 

表达想法

What part of Tianmei's World Academy attracts you most?

What else would you like to know about Tianmei's World Academy and the use of environmental psychology?

天美的世界学院最吸引你的地方是哪里呢？

关于天美的世界学院和环境心理学的应用，还有你想要知道的吗？

Welcome to give us your answer in the comments section and let's get the conversation started. 

Your opinion matters!

欢迎在评论区写你的答案，

我们一起讨论这些问题。

你的意见很重要！

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我们的宣言

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点击“阅读原文”查看我们的官方网站并了解更多。

In order to get a better understanding of the ecosystem behind Tianmei's World Academy, you are welcome to click here.

了解天美的世界学院背后的生态，请点击这里。

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