Guiding Groups

Creating and holding an open space for learning and development. Reading group dynamics to steer groups more effectively.
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.

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