Guiding Groups
All three Holistic Adult Learning modules start with ADL-70; available as a free download.
This course builds on ADL-70: Core Principles, Skills & Practices in Adult Learning and is inspired by Coenraad van Houten’s research and publications.
ADL-72 Guiding Groups explores specific skills and practices that underlie adult learning, and then applies these toward working with a group of individuals within a course.
Adults approach new learning tasks in an individual way, formed by their attitudes, their prior learning experiences, their individual capacities, the knowledge they already have, their life experience, their learning style, their personality and so on. As complex human beings, we approach our learning in different ways – becoming more or less engaged, informed, and changed by the experience.
In this course, we give you the opportunity to understand learning theory and methodology from an anthroposophic perspective that has been informed by Rudolf Steiner and subsequent researchers, notably Bernard Lievegoed, Coenraad van Houten and the Social Ecology Associates.
The course is informed by Karl-Heinz Finke’s work over the past 30 years as an Adult Educator onsite in many countries, and now online. It is supported by Laura Summerfield’s teaching of all ages, and tertiary qualifications in Psychology and Education, including a Masters in Steiner Education.
Topics of ADL-72 include:
- Essential elements of communication
- Different styles of facilitation
- An exploration of group dynamics
- Recognising Thinking/Feeling/Willing statements
- Enabling helpful conversations
- The mystery of encounter
- Creating an open space for sharing
- Maintaining a healthy group-work process
- Designing and assessing group-work processes
