Transformative learning has been playing a big role behind the scenes and the high light, on my part, was Inhale 3; the small group meeting on one Thursday afternoon. In brief, Inhale 3 was going to guide the group to a process where everyone has the opportunity to present to others the idea and challenges of their portfolio and to get sparring on it. For me, it was difficult to see the point to this kind of working in before hand but at the end of our 2 hours Inhale, I had a totally different opinion.
In short, the process of Inhale 3 went like this and was repeated as many times as there were participants in the group:
1. 10 min: A explains the idea of the portfolio and talks about the work and possible challenges. Others (B) focus on listening in depth but may ask clarifying questions. Don't give advice!
2. 3 mins: listening in silence. Listen to your heart and body. Listen to what resonates: What images, metaphors, emotions and gestures rises.
3. 10 min: mirroring. Each listener takes turns sharing, while A is listening in silence, born images / metaphors, emotions or gestures. After that, A reflects back on what he/she had heard and what thoughts or feelings it had aroused.
4. 10 min: generative (~ creative) dialogue. Reflect on A's remarks together and move on to discuss how these observations could provide new perspectives. Have conversation: listen carefully and try to understand each person’s words and relate to the ideas presented by others. Strive to serve the A's case without giving advice or providing solutions.
After these rounds everyone in turn tells how they are feeling about their cases now and what new thoughts rose about taking the process further. Finally, everyone gives thanks to others for sparring in their own words.
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We had four people in our group and each of us were in a bit different phases of the process. We followed the program by going through all the rounds as instructed. It was really interesting to learn how others had decided to build their portfolios and also to hear how they perceived the things I told them about my process. Reflecting one another was rewarding and time flew by really fast. Peer support was important and helped me to really find my way with my portfolio. I also understood that I do have the tendency to make things more complicated than what they really are and I sometimes take things, and myself, too seriously.
So even though I enjoy working alone, I'm still glad this course wasn't just my solo act but we had this small group that acted as a peer support. I will not be going in deeper detail about transformative learning but you will find sources, where you can investigate it further, at the bottom of this post.
As you may or may not remember, my mind map from the beginning of this portfolio, was hardly a map at all because I simply didn't know much about the subject in before hand. Obviously I still don't know everything but I do think I could strike a plausible conversation with someone about it. Here is my updated mind map. If I have used a new source, that I haven't already mentioned, it will be mentioned at the bottom of this post.
https://www.kuluttajaliitto.fi/materiaalit/yhteiskuntavastuu/
https://www.businesscredit.fi/blog/vastuullisuus-liiketoiminnassa
https://planergy.com/blog/corporate-social-responsibility-challenges/
https://www.ecolas.eu/eng/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Mezirow-Transformative-Learning.pdf
https://www.wgu.edu/blog/what-transformative-learning-theory2007.html
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