Have you ever had that group and it seemed as though they were engaged and having a great learning experience, but when you ask a follow-up question or try to process the activity you are met with only silence and the sound of crickets? In experiential learning, the reflective processing portion of the program is equally important as the experience or learning activity itself. Cohort participants will engage in an ongoing discussion about the intersections of SEL work, the topics of race, class, and privilege, and how understanding and practicing Cultural Humility work engages a lifelong self-reflection and learning process that enables us to launch out of “safe space” into “brave space” and to have those seemingly challenging discussions around difference and our biases. Workshops will be infused with a variety of activities & effective reflection/processing techniques for digging in on discussions around difference and optimal SEL outcomes.
Through focused reflection and facilitated processing, group leaders or facilitators of learning are able to unpack; what happened during the experience, why it happened, whether or not similar things occur anywhere else in people’s experiences, and then discuss how we can apply those new understandings to the other areas of school, life or work, effectively transferring that new knowledge and completing the experiential learning cycle. Participants will learn a variety of activities & effective reflection/processing techniques and explore identity through culturally humble ways of being for optimal social-emotional learning outcomes.