Experiential learning
Experiential learning has four steps and starts with:
- Discovering and making an experience. Test a new situation.
- Individual and collective reflection on how we experienced the situation.
- The conceptualization phase – We analyze in subgroups “Why it happened the way it happened?”
- Action or application phase – Reflection on what to do next based on the learning from steps 1 to 3.
The brain learns in 4 ways:
- Auditory – experiential learning through hearing
- Visual – experiential learning through seeing
- Tactile – experiential learning through touch and textures
- Kinesthetic – experiential learning through movement
Successful learning stimulates all four ways. This helps us to better retain what we have learnt.