Keynotes are:

• engaging positively and supportively with individuals and groups

• development activity relating clearly to people’s own experience

• events which are enjoyable, memorable and involving for participants

• learning with measurable impact on the organisation’s bottom line

• learning which can be taken beyond the seminar into the real world outside

• developing better balance between 'centrally-organised' and 'self-managed' learning.

 

“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”  Winston Churchill

 

Input and information-giving is useful up to a point, but people learn best when they:

• exercise some control and responsibility for the direction of their own learning

• are able to make use of their own experience as a starting point and throughout the process

• are given opportunities and guidance to reflect on their experience and turn it into learning

• are dealing with problems and issues that have immediate relevance and application

• are able to learn by doing, with an opportunity to apply theory in practice

• can share ideas and feelings with other people and to learn from their experience and ideas.

An approach that is too content-centred conveys the message that learners cannot solve problems themselves.

 

This means not relying on non-stop ‘expert’ presentations, instead:

• interactive material with plenty of tasks, focused on users’ own practical experience

• backed up with the theories and experience of the top practitioners and thinkers in the field

• related to practical application to users’ own lives long after the learning event has finished.

 

Examples of work delivered are here.