Capacity Building

Training of Trainers /

Staff development a joint initiative by University of Gothenburg and the

Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University

Proposed learning outcome

To deepen participants knowledge and skills in reflective practice in order to empower themselves in further developing and revitalising peer programmes as well as support others.

Where to begin…

What would make the participants be aware of themselves and of each other ?

Reflecting on past experiences as trainers / facilitators and coordinators.

What happens in the initial moments of training / meetings?

TWO RELATED CONCEPTS

• The SET:

- Being aware of the initial moments -

mind-set, frame of thought, expectations

one’s own personal vision /Learning outcome

The SETTING

The SETTING• should help us to connect our minds and our

hearts…

•”Images speak to the eye, but they are really addressed to the mind. They are ways of thinking in the guise of ways of seeing. ”

-Wilson Duff

The ELC

The Experiential Learning Cycle

PH experiential learning cycle Carr and deRosenroll, Peer Resources Network, based on the works of Kolb and Fry, 1975

ReflectionThoughts, Feelings,

Observations, Reactions

WisdomConclusions,

Insights, Theories, comparisons,

Generalisations, Meanings

DoingActing,

Implementing changes, experimenting, future

actions

Concrete Experience

Activities, experience, remembered experience

FRAMEWORK FOR SUCCESSanother cycle – another way of

’seeing’

four quadrants – four revolutionary theories

for a learning organisation

ELC based on Indigenous culture model

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MOVEMENT

VISION

TIME

REASON

The Second Wheel

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BehaviourMOVEMENT

Re-spektVISION

Relationships TIME

Feelings REASON

Trust the process

Experiential exercise

1. VISION

Remember a time when you felt most alive, most fulfilled, or most excited about your involvement in your programme.

-What made the experience so special for you ?

-Who else was involved? Describe how you felt about this?

Experiential exercise

2. TIME

Five things you most enjoy doing.

Three things that you must do everyday to feel fulfilled in your work?

Five important values in your programme/work.

Your five most significant relationships?

Experiential exercise

3. REASON

What strengths do you see in yourself?What are the things that motivate you in your programme / organization ?

What important dream or goal you would regret not doing or achieving when your life is ending?

4. MOVEMENT

Write your own personal vision statement in first person.

-make statements about the future that you want to achieve…(try to base this envisioned future on your strengths and what you value in your programme / organisation / private life)

Write these statements as if they are already happening.

ELC for The Learning Organisation

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MOVEMENT

VISION

RELATIONSHIP

REASON

Appreciative inquiry

Open Space andthe Spirit shows up-

The Chaordic Organization: from chaos into order

The Chaordic Theory

Support the process

Appreciative InquiryTwo basic steps in the process of Appreciative

Inquiry

• The research task is to identify and value the best of “what is” within the organization.

• The research task then envisions what “might be.” To search beyond the values and what is valued, to be inspired and allow oneself to envision new possibilities.