About the Instructor
Grand Master of Memory. Three-time published author. Creator of BBC1's Monkhouse's Memory Masters. Channel 4 memory coach. Thirty years teaching people to remember.
Mark originally trained as an actor — which is where the obsession with memory began. Learning lines under pressure forced him to find a system that actually worked, and that search took him all the way to the 1995 World Memory Championships, where he became one of the first eight people in the world to earn the title of Grand Master of Memory.
That same year, the BBC commissioned him to create Monkhouse's Memory Masters, a primetime gameshow watched by over eight million viewers. Over the next three decades he wrote three books, coached thousands of students, ran corporate training for Rothschild, the BBC, the ICAEW and Lincoln National, and in 2019 returned to television as the memory coach on Channel 4's Can I Improve My Memory?, working with Gok Wan, Joey Essex and Valerie Singleton.
Memory School is the distilled version of everything he teaches — the same techniques, structures and exercises that appear in his books and one-on-one coaching, now in a programme anyone can follow.
One of the first eight people in the world to earn the title, at the 1995 World Memory Championships.
Created the primetime BBC gameshow Monkhouse's Memory Masters, watched by over 8 million viewers.
Memory Coach and Memory Consultant on the Channel 4 series, working with Gok Wan, Joey Essex and Valerie Singleton.
Published by Hodder (How to Remember Anything, The Memory Workbook) and Nick Hern Books (The Act of Learning Lines).
Memory and accelerated-learning training for Rothschild, Lincoln National, the ICAEW, Dyslexia Scotland and the BBC, plus thousands of individual students.
Hodder Education (Teach Yourself) · 2011
Mark's foundational book on memory. Covers the learning cycle, creative memorisation, chain method, memory networks, the number system, and applications across work, study and daily life.
Hodder & Stoughton (Teach Yourself) · 2013
A practical, exercise-driven companion organising memory around the multiple intelligences — words, numbers, music, pictures, body and emotion — with a 12-chapter memory workout.
Nick Hern Books · Forthcoming
Mark's seven-step recipe for actors: Prepare, Prime, Connect, Make It Stick, Rehearse, and perform with confidence in auditions, on stage, and on screen.
Memory School is the same system, taught monthly in a step-by-step programme with the Skool community.
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