Exploration

Exploration
 
Reference
John Medina, Brain Rules

We are powerful and natural explorers states Medina’s Brain Rule #12, and this is a great motivation for the learning process. This exploration starts as soon as we are born and creates opportunities and processes through which our brain develops. By studying the way babies learn, scientists have learned that we naturally learn throughout our lives through exploration and experiment (observation, hypothesis, experiment, and conclusion).

Implications for training

We should capitalize on this natural tendency to learn through exploration in our trainings in order to enhance the quality of the facilitation. We can do this by stimulating curiosity and creating opportunities for it to manifest in questions, exploration, experiments, problem-solving, engaging in situations, discussions, and discovery.

Food for thought!

 

- What makes you curious in a training setting?

- What might trigger your participants’ curiosity?

- What would kill people’s curiosity? What would support it?