Advanced Skills in Experiential Practice. Dear Teacher, I am a survivor of a concentration camp. My eyes saw what no man should witness. Gas chambers.

Advanced Skills in Experiential Practice

Dear Teacher,I am a survivor of a concentration camp. My eyes saw

what no man should witness. Gas chambers built by learned engineers. Infants killed by trained nurses. Women and babies shot and burned by high school and college graduates.

So, I am suspicious of education. My request is: Help your students become human. Your efforts must never produce learned monsters, skilled psychopaths, educated Eichmanns. Reading, writing, and arithmetic are important only if they serve to make our children more human.

~ Author Unknown (cited in Haim Ginott’s “Teacher and Child”)

INTRODUCTION/CONTEXT

OutcomesExploring the meaning of “intentionality”

Applying social emotional learning personally and professionally

Using metaphors before, during, and after an activity to facilitate meaningful connections for participants

Integrating learning and the brain to understand how to think and plan experientially

Agenda FLOW Introduction/Context FACILITATIVE & CONCEPTUAL

APPROACHES TO PROCESSING WATERING THE GARDEN THINKING EXPERIENTIALLY Closing

BEST WORKSHOP EVER: Facilitator

• Talk about practice – what does it sound like, look like…

• Help me to relate and connect• Using various tools, processes, and strategies to

facilitate what we do in the workshop– Show us

• Definitive answers - opinions– Offer tools for use in my situation

• Create awareness about what we’re doing – why– Building contextual meaning

• Addressing all objectives

BEST WORKSHOP EVER: Everyone

• Being more involved in the workshop• Listening to each other• Express oneself (doubts, questions)• Being relevant • Being supportive• Be open and accepting… non judgmental• Give examples when saying something• Flow – see where it goes – trust the process• Start on time• Be mindful about disturbing others

FACILITATIVE AND CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES TO PROCESSING

1. 4.21 minutes2. 2.24 minutes3. 3.27 minutes

WATERING THE GARDENMaking Experiences More

Meaningful through Metaphor

Metaphors

• Frontloaded• During/Internal• After/Processing

Facilitator Directed

• Did you notice that the harder you tried, the more difficult it became?

• Did you notice things slipping away from your hands?• Did you notice how much involvement it required to

achieve the objective?• Did you notice you paid more attention to some objects

than others?• Did you notice we tend to exclude people if we don’t pay

conscious attention?• Did you notice that many times we feel like we have no

control over things?

Participant Directed

• What did you notice about how you accomplished this activity together?

• How does this connect with your life/work/school? How is this like your life/work/school? Where do you encounter a similar experience in your life/work/school

• What does the stick represent in your life? The people?

THINKING EXPERIENTIALLYFrom Isolated Event to Learning

Process

FRONT INTEGRATIVE SENSORY

BACK INTEGRATIVE

MOTOR

ZULL’S MODEL OF THE CONNECTION BETWEEN BRAIN FUNCTION AND HUMAN LEARNING

Gathering Information

Reflection/Observation

Creation of New Concepts

Active Testing

“… if one advances confidently in the direction of their dreams, and endeavors to live the life which they have imagined, they will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

… If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”

Henry David Thoreau

Laurie FrankGOAL Consulting+1-608-251-2234LSFrank@mac.com

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Leaning PairsOr

Scales

What did you have to do to maintain

balance?

Homeostasis DefinitionConcept Map of human body

Examples

Research Homeostatic Relationships

Present findings

Concept: Homeostasis

HOMEOSTASIS

Theme/Big Idea:

Balance