Train the Trainer Intensive Retreat set for May 2007

Since we began our work, participants have expressed a desire to learn how to create experiential learning processes. This intensive "train-the-trainer" retreat is designed to explore learning and help participants "explode" their current training curricula by creating transformative, experiential processes that will come closer to what learning really is--a process that leaves us changed.

Come join us! This retreat, "Training at the Edge: Experiential Tools for Transformational Learning", is limited to 14 participants to allow for in-depth work for each person. It is appropriate for people who work in a wide variety of disciplines and types of organizations.

We will have online registration up and running soon; in the meantime, if you'd like to reserve a spot, let's do it the old-fashioned way: just email and let us know of your interest and we'll go from there. Details are below...

Training At The Edge: Experiential Tools For Transformational Learning

May 14-17, 2007

Bend of Ivy Lodge/Asheville, NC

At its best learning is a beneficial search for surprise and a process that leaves us changed, yet we often create training programs that avoid surprise at all costs. If people learn best by doing and then making meaning from that experience, then learning is most effective when it is embodied and experiential and not just intellectual. In this intensive train-the-trainer retreat we will approach training from the learner’s perspective, embrace surprise, and will explore ways to create trainings that are more than content transactions, but are transformational.

Objectives:

In this intensive retreat, participants will:

• Explore what learning is and our impulse toward safety in learning situations
• Understand the difference between transactional and transformational learning
• Utilize unique experiential training tools
• Explore finite and infinite games
• Create training curricula that are experience driven
• Move from intellectual learning to embodied learning
• Explode concepts brought by participants and learn how to teach them through experiential processes
• Learn how to avoid splitting intentions when designing training programs
• Be surprised and get messy

Activities:

This intensive will be 85% experiential in nature. We will use:

• Organizational storytelling and narrative
• Pattern, theatre, art and music
• Metaphor, symbol, impulse and improvisation
• Movement, mapping and spatial awareness
• The knowledge and insights co-created in the session
• Unexpected opportunities and found materials

Schedule

We will begin at 6pm on Monday, May 14 (check-in will be from 5-6pm), and we will end at 12:30pm on Thursday, May 17^th.

Cost

$950 Tuition and materials

$350 Housing and meals (shared rooms and baths, organic vegetarian meals)

To register

Fourteen (14) participants can be accepted into this program. Online registration will be coming soon - in the meantime, if you'd like to register or get more information, please email for an application.

Comments

[Josiane Feigon]

This sounds great and I'm interested. I am a corporate sales trainer and deliver training to your GenX audiences who have a 3-second attention span, my training is highly interactive and fun- but I'm always looking at ways for it to pop. I'm also in the process of writing a book on my sales system and could always use ideas on exercises, etc. Will this workshop address that?