Experiential Training is based, to a large extent, on the capacity that all people have to learn thanks to direct experience. Reproducing real-life situations through metaphors, simulations, and activities is the first step in learning.
Various theorists of Learning have repeatedly emphasized, over the years, the importance of providing direct experiences to children to help them mature and grow. A child's ability to integrate knowledge initially comes from direct experience, as he has not yet developed the mental capacity to integrate knowledge as information.
We all know the power and depth of learning that is achieved at early ages of human development, we just have to remember how easily children learn languages. However, when we mature, we tend to diminish the importance of experience and its usefulness in learning ideas or concepts.
Direct experience as learning
Experiential Training is based, to a large extent, on the ability of all people, both children and adults, to learn thanks to direct experience. For this reason, it supposes a learning methodology that reproduces situations that occur in real life through metaphors, simulations and activities in the classroom, outdoors or in specially enabled spaces. Somehow, the participant is invited to play, as if it were a child.
The strength of the learning process lies precisely in the impact that the experience produces. This experience makes the analysis and conceptualization process, essential for learning and internalizing new concepts, skills or attitudes, much more effective.
Experiential Training Process
First, and after experiencing the carefully programmed situations to produce the desired learning, what happened together with the professionals who conduct the experiential action is analyzed. In this way, people can explore existing analogies and similarities with what happens in their daily lives.
Later, learning is integrated through the assimilation of conceptual models of management and human behavior, which will allow acting in future situations, already in the real environment.
The last step in the process is to transfer what has been learned into daily life, through follow-up actions and concrete projects. This provides the conscious practice necessary for the internalization of behaviors to occur, and therefore personal development.
Another particularity of this type of training is that the responsibility for learning lies with the participant, so that the figure of the classic instructor or trainer is replaced by that of the facilitator. It is a break with classical training, starting from different paradigms and reaching also different results.
In summary, learning occurs through the process that occurs through the participants' experience, on an emotional level, guided analysis and its subsequent conceptualization, on a more cognitive level.
Scheme:
- Experiencing programmed situations Analysis of what happened Integration of learning through the assimilation of management models and human behavior Transferring what has been learned to daily life To achieve success Blanca or Peugeot.
