ADL-70: Core Skills, Practices and Principles

Core Principles, Skills and Practices in Adult Learning

An introduction to how adults really learn.

All three Holistic Adult Learning modules start with ADL-70; available as a free download.

Our Holistic Adult Learning courses are specifically designed for consultants, educators and facilitators working with adults in learning, personal development and therapeutic processes.
They draw on the rich experience of the Centre for Social Development, the NPI, the Anthroposophical Schooling Course and Coenraad van Houten. They explore the underlying theory and methodology of adult learning and developmental processes, including Inner Path or Spiritual Development. Adults learn differently from children and young people; therefore the education of adults must be designed differently.

Topics of ADL-70 include:

How do adults learn? Supporting self-reflection. Building on existing knowledge and experience. Applying the 7 learning processes.
Growth and development of the individual learner. How is adult learning different from that of children and young people? How do we develop from Reactor to Learner to Researcher in our life journey?
Qualities of the self-guided learner. Maintaining inner motivation and a sense of personal life mission. Relationship with the True-I during the learning process. Examining individual expectations – what to develop and what to let go.

The Online Group-work is included in ADL-71, 72 & 73 and explores:

The Baggage exercise — making conscious what you carry into a course, and taking responsibility for your own learning.
The Postcard exercise — discovering your strengths and challenges in observation.
Steiner’s six basic exercises — applied in everyday life with the support of a small group.
Self-reflective work — Learning Journals, Daily Review, and Night Echoes.
Non-reactive listening — with an open mind and heart.
The 7 basic practices to maintain open mind, heart and intention.