“Experiential learning is a teaching and learning process that combines direct experience that is meaningful to the student with guided reflection and analysis. It is challenging, active and student centered and immerses students in opportunities for taking initiative, responsibility and decision making. It is a holistic approach to learning that connects the head with the body, heart, spirit and soul. Traditional academic approaches to education focus primarily on the intellectual development of the individual while experiential education methods focus on the whole person” (Kolb)
The below article about the gain of experiential learning was written by Kim Lamoureux and published in the review Leadership Experience on October, 10. 2009.
« Experiential Learning. Make it the core of the Leadership program. » by Kim Lamoureux
LEADERS PARTICIPATE IN many training activities—workshops, online courses, assessments, coaching—to prepare for real-world challenges. Mastery, however, demands experience; hence, companies have to facilitate and accelerate a person’s ability to gain experience. Organizations that offer experiential learning (EL) enable leaders to master something by applying learning and receiving feedback.
