It’s amazing to me that society has made learning seem so unattractive. Watch a small child, or even a small animal, outdoors. They are exploring, trying things, gathering feedback. They are learning. And they love it.
Fast forward to the last time you filled out a course evaluation. The evaluation didn’t ask if you came to life in the class. It didn’t ask if you formed new relationships with interesting people, or if you left feeling different about yourself or the world. It didn’t ask if you experienced the kind of real fun that children experience while learning. It asked if everything was clear and comfortable and useful.
The most obvious way to be clear and comfortable and useful is to find new ways to teach exactly what people already think will work. The clearer and easier it all seems, the less new information or perspective has found it way into the learners.
But think of a time you were having fun with other people while working on a project or task together. I bet that the more fun you were having, the harder you were working. It seems like a contradiction, but we love being surrounded by people who share our goals while we stretch and grow our own capabilities. Progress is a great motivator, and so is laughter.
My work at NLP Canada Training is to make learning active, challenging, and fun. It is not always going to be immediately clear, but when you work through to the clarity, it will be both memorable and useful. You’ll explore your own experience and then decide what it means.
Your experience of difference is always the root of learning. And you’ll experience it better surrounded by other explorers (we love field trips!) with a guide who keeps you safe (not comfortable). You’ll have to take the risk of connecting with other people and following instructions that are unfamiliar.
We do Zoom different. We do teaching different. And it’s fun.
