Troubles? Blind? Busy? Get ready for the game!

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Troubles? Blind? Busy? Get ready for the game!

• Workshop about experiential learning for the
  EFPSA Germany congress
• Ivo Hrdina
• Martin Kucera

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Comfort zone

• Individual with specific character and shape
• Feeling of safety, comfort and nothing can
  disturb us
• Theoretically we can stay inside the comfort zone
  for the whole life and never even reach the
  borders
• But some people do try to go behind the borders
• First border border of comfort and learning
• Second border border of the personal
  possibilities
• Consequences
• Positive personal growth
• Negative fear, stress
• TRANSFER positive move in one area can
  significantly influence other areas

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Experiential learning

• Experiential learning is learning through
  reflection on doing, which is often contrasted
  with rote or didactic learning
• Experiential learning focuses on the learning
  process of the individual
• An example of experiential learning is going to a
  zoo and learning through observation and
  interaction with the zoo environment, as opposed
  to reading about animals from a book
• Experiential learning do not require any teacher
  and relates solely to the meaning making process
  of the individual's direct experience

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Feedback and its importance in experiential
learning JOHARI WINDOW

• Joseph Luft, Harry Ingham (Book Human
  Interaction)

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Learning circle

• David A. Kolb (1939)
• David A. Kolb is a Professor of Organizational
  Behavior at the Weatheread School of Management.
  Besides his work on experiential learning, David
  A. Kolb is also known for his contribution to the
  topic of organizational behaviour. He is
  interested in the nature of individual and social
  change, experiential learning, career development
  and executive and professional education. 
• Learning circle
• Kolb and Fry (1975) argue that the learning cycle
  can begin at any of the four points - and that it
  should be approached as a continuous spiral.
• However, it is suggested that the learning
  process often begins when a person carries out a
  particular action and sequently observes the
  effect of the action in this situation. In this
  case, the second step is to understand the
  effects in the particular instance and if the
  same action was taken in the same circumstances
  again, one should be able to anticipate the
  consequences of the action. The third step would
  be understanding the general principle under
  which the particular instance falls.

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Processburger

• Bill Krouwell
• personal and interpersonal processesprocesses of
  self-knowledge and closer mutual knowledge
• within a group or a team possible interpersonal
  barriers come to light, relations based on trust
  are built, individuals realise the roots of
  interpersonal variety
• group processesneed coordination of the group,
  its leading through the process of task solving
  in the model situation the rooted mechanisms
  clearly manifest themselves, on the other hand
  unexpected natural leaders emerge.
• In training situations the group more easily and
  openly reflects both its qualities and weaknesses
  and with abandon they search more effective
  methods. A quality reflection and feedback
  guarantee transfer of these findings into the
  real life.
• Model games and situations may be easily
  transfered into the real life no matter if the
  situation is model or real, we always react with
  the same intensity and polarity.

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Where to use experiential learning

• Experiental learning offers millions places where
  we can use it
• Schools basic schools, high schools,
  Universities etc..
• Company environment
• Work with people with special needs
• Soft skills training
• Stress management, etc.
• What do we always have to keep in mind
• Everyone is different and uses different coping
  strategies
• If an activity seems easy for most of the people,
  for someone else it may be the most difficult one
• We can never push anyone to any experiental
  learning activity
• The whole process of learning must be voluntary
  
• After every longer activity there must be some
  space for a feedback session
• The leader of the group should always use only
  those activities which he or she already tried
  and has experience with

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Specifics in work area

• The methods of experiential learning are usually
  used for work teams
• Types of programmes
• Intake an assesment centre, different team
  games assesment of applicants and detecting
  their potential for the particular work position
• Diagnostics whenever, according to the time
  possibilities of the company, assesment of the
  employees and their diagnostics on the basis of
  group techniques
• Teambuilding most common, uses group work and
  experience for uniting the team and betterment
  cooperation
• Fun programme as a reward for employees, uses
  the methods mentioned with lower stress on the
  feedback and assesment. Usually contains outdoor
  activities climbing, paragliding, karts,
  paintball etc.
• Specifics of company programmes
• Commercial sphere of experiential learning with
  all consequences (money, stress, severity, )
• The attendance of employees is often compulsory,
  they are aware they will be assesed, watched
• Stress on the introduction of each technique,
  acceptance creating positive atmosphere
• The client decides
• Adapting the programme according to the needs of
  the client he has the final word

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Using the aspects from the life of people with
special needs

• Running Paralympic school days
• Using wheelchairs, blind tapes
• Getting the mainstream people involved into the
  world where different vaules are important
• Giving them the possibility to try out how to
  move on the wheelchair, walk without the visual
  control
• Changing their attitudes towards people with
  several handicaps
• Mainly in elementary and high schools pupils
  are interested in it and they like it

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Joke at the end ? - http//www.youtube.com/watch?v
FnuWJ0UjRxs

• Videjko?

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Web pages

• http//reviewing.co.uk/reviews/outdoor-training.ht
  m
• http//www.12manage.com/methods_luft_ingham_johari
  _window.html
• http//www.infed.org/biblio/b-explrn.htm
• http//wilderdom.com/experiential/
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiential_learning
  

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The end

• Thank you for your attention
• Ivo Hrdina - i.hrdina_at_centrum.cz
• Martin Kucera 45martin_at_seznam.cz
• You cannot teach a man anything, you can only
  help him find it within himself. Galileo