Seek and ye shall find.
About exciting learning through play
[] I.
squareONE provides a facilitator, Stephen Calhoun, original tools for transformative learning, and melds both into a process for evoking the discovery of insight.
Critical to this learning process are curious, daring, learners.
One aim of this learning process is that it is exciting, even thrilling.
Another aim is that such experiential learning constitute an extraordinary journey of exploration and that this exploration leads to discovery.
Playfulness aptly describes the kind of learning which is open to new experiences, novel fields of data and meaningful relationships between data, and fresh ways of understanding what may be of value or may even resolve a startling a-ha!
Although this playful working through experience is itself informal, its underpinnings are based in practical theories of adult learning, especially the theories developed to amplify the emancipatory prospects of transformative learning.
[] II.
Emancipatory prospects. . .hmmm. Come again?
The goal of transformative learning is to have an unfamiliar, or unusual, or novel, or new experience; to, in effect, be temporarily liberated from habitual, familiar, conventional, normal experience.
Then, from reflection upon this new experience, the point of learning is developed between an insight that suggests further exploration or experimentation, and, insight able to transform the learner temporarily or forever!
The point is to deeply engage an experience and see what possibly can happen.
[] III.
Another way to look at this is to imagine what creative capabilities may be employed for the sake of being an artist about one's own: self, perspectives, and journey of self-discovery.
[] IV.
Is it necessary for this kind of learning to be playful and fun?
Yes.