BUILDING LEADERSHIP
in the
CONSCIOUS PRACTICE
of
EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION
Approach
Designing activities for participants to have experiences and reasons for change is many different things to different people. A lot of designing for experiential learning programs is now done by people sitting behind a desk, many of whom have never gone through the activities that they want others to go through. Many facilitators too have never participated in the activities they make their groups endure.
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Something is amiss! Mine may be the old-school of thought where i saw my mentors not just briefing the activity, but also participating in it vigorously and playfully! In continuation with this methodology, i see that mostly - when the facilitator is just running the activity from a book, they may get it all right - till its time to ask some questions!
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The questions that awareness during a personal experience brings are . . . just very different. When they have had these complete experiences, they inform and influence their ability to design for others in ways that are hard to explain.
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The approach to this course therefore must begin with where the participants are, and the experiences they have had. So come prepared with your bag-of-tricks, props and activity briefs. What you know will be the foundation for what you could learn.
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It is intended for the group to discover design, rather than be told about it. There will be some content delivered, but only to build a skeleton. The flesh and blood will come from the participants. The design of the course itself intends to bring in the principles it wishes to teach.
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It will be experiential.
It will involve reading, viewing and discussions.
It will include collaborative learning strategies
It will require you to work between sessions and submit assignments
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You will design your program (whatever duration) in session-1 and redesign it 6 times, allowing each session's experience to influence it's growth.
By the end of that exercise, i hope you will have a much better idea about what designing experiences is!
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If you still think you want to be part of this, go ahead and register.