Adult Education Theories & Tools
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Brookfield talks about the value and importance of modelling the behaviour you promote. "As a teacher I have to earn the right to ask students to engage seriously in discussion by first modelling my own serious commitment to it" (p.230). I respect the concept of earning the right as a teacher and evaluating one's own positions of power. I see facilitation similarly and group dynamics are vital to the success of a program, including how the participants see the facilitator and how the facilitator sees the participants. I created some community guidelines for my programs that describe exactly the type of behaviour I would like to model: Personally, my biggest challenges/areas of growth are to welcome my own inner wisdom, trust the inner wisdom of others, and adopt loving curiosity. It took practice to welcome the experience of having the answers to my own questions and to not look for advice from others. I now readily welcome and ache for that sort of space-holding, which I find is often something I have to specifically request. In terms of trusting the inner wisdom of others, I find that I am not sure how to guide them in internal processing and resort to wanting to ask questions guiding them towards my own experiences or wisdom. Finally, adopting loving curiosity I can find challenging when coming up against my own growth edges, those sticky places that I am sensitive to, such as when someone speaks about eating meat or not understanding microaggression. I dive more easily into giving and receiving support and acknowledgment and holding silence. Although every area comes with its own well-worn pathways and areas of dense forest, yet to be explored. Reference
Brookfield, Stephen. (2015). The Skillful Teacher: On technique, trust, and responsiveness in the classroom (3rd ed.). San Fransisco: John Wiley & Sons.
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