Today I used Action Reflection Learning in a developing leaders class. This methodology is similar to action learning (the knowledge is already within the participants within a real-life situation), with the addition of a learning coach (me as the instructor) who, among other things, poses reflective questions, sets a tone for team learning, encourages appreciative inquiry, and promotes aspects of a learning journal to help with the individual processing and debriefing of the learning experience.

This makes a lot of sense to me, being a formally trained adult educator, yet it is very challenging for some people who approach learning in a more prescriptive and performance-based manner. I know; I used to be like that once, too.

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