Are you a trainer or educator who wants to learn more about how to teach hard content matter or theory in an experiential way? This workshop is built to give you more confidence with generating options for how to support a group to learn a new piece of information, without always resorting to lecture-style teaching methods.

In experiential education we build learning experiences or activities using the 4-stages of experiential education: experience, reflection, generalization, and application. One reason experiential education is so different is because it starts with people's own experience: lectures and most traditional teaching start with theory or explaining people's experience for them. Experiential education starts with people's experience and then moves people through a way of reflecting on that experience that produces new insights or supports people to grasp a new concept. To maximize the power of the learning cycle, the trainer leading the activity must be skillfull at helping people to move from initial reflections to a deeper place of generalization and application. The trainer must think creatively about how to get people to recognize key concepts and find an application for them that is relevant in their context. In this workshop, you will get clarity about the experiential cycle and how to move groups through the four phases. You will also have a chance to identify key theoretical concepts in your teaching area -- such as nonviolent action, or team-building, or cross-cultural work, or anti-oppression, and have some time to experiment with new ways of teaching them.

In this new workshop, you will get clarity about the experiential cycle and how to move groups through the four phases. You will also have a chance to identify key theoretical concepts in your teaching area -- such as nonviolent action, or team-building, or cross-cultural work, or anti-oppression.

• Increase your skill at presenting theory and concepts;
• Gain confidence and experience in moving a group from Stage 2 (Reflection) to Stage 3 (Generalization) to Stage 4 (Application);
• Identify key teaching concepts and theories in your teaching area.

The workshop begins with dinner and registration at 6 p.m. on Thursday and runs until 6 p.m. Sunday. The workshop hours for each day are as follows: Thursday, start 6:00 pm, end between 9:00-10:00 pm dinner provided Friday and Saturday, (8:00 am breakfast) start 9:00 am, end between 9:00-10:00 pm lunch and dinner provided Sunday, (8:00 am breakfast) start 9:00 am, end by 6:00 pm lunch and afternoon snacks provided Though the hours of this workshop are long, we've found that our experiential style helps keep people engaged, alert and energized through the weekend. We also provide time for short and extended breaks within our agenda and encourage participants to take care of themselves so that they can stay fully present. Please contact us in advance if you have questions or concerns about the long hours of this workshop. The workshop is designed as an experiential package with each session building on the previous session. We want to create the best learning environment possible for participants to absorb the combined learning of each session and therefore WE DO NOT ALLOW PARTIAL ATTENDANCE, you must commit to taking the entire workshop.

You can register online for this workshop, starting November 1st, 2010, if you're having difficulty registering online, just contact us at kaytee@trainingforchange.org and we will email you a registration form. The registration deadline is 15 days prior to the start of the workshop. If the registration deadline has passed, you can still contact us to try to register but you may be added to a waiting list if the workshop is full.

This workshop costs $175 US-$500 US, sliding scale based on income. The fee includes over 23 hours of training, meals during workshop hours, and simple lodging for people who request it. To determine your fee, use the chart below.

FEE FOR WORKSHOPS IN THE US
If your income is...	You pay...
under $15,000 US	$175 US
$15,001-$25,000 US	$225 US
$25,001-$35,000 US	$275 US
$35,001-$45,000 US	$350 US
$45,001-$55,000 US	$425 US
over $55,000 US	$500 US

If you have questions about the fee or the workshop, feel free to contact us!

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