Comments on: Notes on Designing Experiential Meetings http://www.hedgate.net/articles/2008/12/05/notes-on-designing-experiential-meetings/ Contextual Chameleon Sat, 17 Jul 2010 16:53:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Consulting jiujitsu » Blog Archive » The elephant rules http://www.hedgate.net/articles/2008/12/05/notes-on-designing-experiential-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-3833 Consulting jiujitsu » Blog Archive » The elephant rules Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:00:51 +0000 http://www.hedgate.net/?p=138#comment-3833 [...] So, to influence the duo, I can’t talk to the kid at all. It’s just a delusional child, after all. We want to talk to the top man - the elephant. And in this quest, I have a new weapon. Experential Meetings. [...] [...] So, to influence the duo, I can’t talk to the kid at all. It’s just a delusional child, after all. We want to talk to the top man – the elephant. And in this quest, I have a new weapon. Experential Meetings. [...]

]]> By: Chris http://www.hedgate.net/articles/2008/12/05/notes-on-designing-experiential-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-3222 Chris Sun, 07 Dec 2008 10:52:26 +0000 http://www.hedgate.net/?p=138#comment-3222 Thanks Jerry. I agree, you really have to experience it to learn it. That was what was so great about the workshop at AYE. Since it was the last day of the conference, it was like a great debriefing of all the experiential experiences I had already had during the previous days. Thanks Jerry. I agree, you really have to experience it to learn it. That was what was so great about the workshop at AYE. Since it was the last day of the conference, it was like a great debriefing of all the experiential experiences I had already had during the previous days.

]]> By: Gerald M. Weinberg http://www.hedgate.net/articles/2008/12/05/notes-on-designing-experiential-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-3210 Gerald M. Weinberg Sat, 06 Dec 2008 04:14:22 +0000 http://www.hedgate.net/?p=138#comment-3210 Chris, you've done a BEAUTIFUL job of describing what experiential learning is all, and what we did that day. Thank you. There's a paradox here, of course. How can you explain experiential learning without being experiential, if what you believe in is experiential learning. I've been wrestling with that for some years, since I completed a manuscript on experiential learning--a paradox. What I would recommend to your readers now, to really bring your marvelous essay home to them, is to try to design some little experiential exercise, then debrief it with some friends. Here's a simple example to learn about change: Clasp your hands together, fingers interlocked Notice which little finger is on the bottom Reclasp your hands, but this time with the other little finger on the bottom. Notice how it feels to you. Notice your feelings about what you want to do next. End of exercise. Now debrief by sharing those feelings, then seeing what learnings you can draw from them about change. --- I hope this adds some retention to Chris's essay. Jerry Weinberg http://geraldmweinberg.com Chris, you’ve done a BEAUTIFUL job of describing what experiential learning is all, and what we did that day. Thank you.

There’s a paradox here, of course. How can you explain experiential learning without being experiential, if what you believe in is experiential learning. I’ve been wrestling with that for some years, since I completed a manuscript on experiential learning–a paradox.

What I would recommend to your readers now, to really bring your marvelous essay home to them, is to try to design some little experiential exercise, then debrief it with some friends. Here’s a simple example to learn about change:

Clasp your hands together, fingers interlocked

Notice which little finger is on the bottom

Reclasp your hands, but this time with the other little finger on the bottom.

Notice how it feels to you.

Notice your feelings about what you want to do next.

End of exercise. Now debrief by sharing those feelings, then seeing what learnings you can draw from them about change.
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I hope this adds some retention to Chris’s essay.

Jerry Weinberg http://geraldmweinberg.com

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