DAY 1: Wednesday 20^th of September 2006

Using experience as the source of learning, development and change
 

1.1 Why get more experiential?

Goodbye Passive Learning

Hello Active Learning!

An international perspective on why and how training is becoming more experiential. How do these changes affect you?  The benefits of active and experience-based approaches to learning. An interactive exploration of experiential learning theory.

1.2 Enquiring Learners

Generating Questions from Learners

When do trainers push? When do learners pull? Developing learners’ questioning skills arouses curiosity, sustains motivation and develops their learning skills. Try out three ways of generating and managing student questions: Visitor Technique, Press Conference and Simultaneous Surveys.

1.3 Engaging Discussions

Generating Participation in Discussions

How to maximize participation in discussions. Try out three techniques that help participants to empathize, communicate and explore different points of view: Turntable, Horseshoe and Talking Knot.

1.4 Facilitating Learning

Asking Productive Questions

How to ask questions that help participants learn from experience. Ways of sequencing questions and extending your range of questions. Trying out a variety of question-based reviewing tools.

DAY 2: Thursday 21^st of September 2006

Creating a culture of success, support, action and participation
 

2.1 Creating a culture of success

What Works Well?

You can learn from success as well as from failure. Try the success route first: it’s quicker and less painful. If want to look at failure you now have a positive foundation from which to do so. Try out some strengths-based methods for learning from experience.

2.2 and a culture of support

Partners in Learning

Slow down, you’re going too fast. Invest time in creating real support for learning. An intelligent choice of methods can help to build support that is genuine, specific, motivational and individually tailored - even in large groups.

2.3 and a culture of action

Movement in Learning

There are many ways of making reviewing active and there are many benefits from doing so. Even abstract topics can be explored in dynamic ways. These active reviewing techniques help people to communicate more effectively, explore ideas and values and focus on progress towards their goals.

2.4 and a culture of participation

Tools for Learning

How democratic is your practice? Try out tools and responsibilities that you can place in the hands of learners - so that their own questioning and facilitation skills are brought into play.

DAY 3: Fraiday 22rd of September  2006

Creating a culture for all learning styles and making transfer happen

3.1 and a culture for all learning styles

Creative Reviewing

Learning is a creative process and we will explore a number of reviewing methods that build on this principle. Some methods go for quality while others draw on the speed of intuition and the effectiveness of visual communication.

3.2 and a culture for learning

Designing Debriefing

It often happens that learning exercises are carefully designed but debriefs are improvised. Without spoiling your appetite for improvisation, you will be challenged to see how far you can go towards designing the debriefing of activities and programs in advance.

3.3 Transferring Training

Making Learning Stick

Using your learning from this program we will try out a number of different transfer strategies associated with ‘near transfer’.

3.4 Transforming Learning

Making Learning Sticky

Using your learning from this program we will try out a number of different transfer strategies associated with ‘far transfer’.