HEALING WAYS EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING
Written Sept, 1999. Updated
April 2014.
Evolving Laceweb
Experiential Cooperative Learning in the Oceania Australasia East Asia Region
Since the Early 1960s
Supported by
Total Care Foundation
The Greek philosopher Aristotle once
said:
For the things we have to learn
before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
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POLY COOPERATIVE LEARNING
LACEWEB uses and adapts the older Ways of
the Region.
Where children were learning things by
watching what older people do.
And particularly, watching how they do the things they are doing.
By copying older people and experiencing
doing lots of things.
And this learning is also happening among
other children.
It is a cooperative
activity – involving lots of sharing.
The focus is on learners in the process of
learning.
Facilitators creating contexts ideal for
learning.
‘Poly’ literally means much or many.
So learning lots of things.
In our own cultural Way.
That’s a good
Way!
Things go Well!
Hands on.
CORE STREAMS
A.
Life
Competences
B.
Work
Competences
Participants can mix streams
Half-day to Two Week Experiences
Participants may participate at a level
matching their educational and live experience
Attendees learn by experiencing
Experiences
o
Foundation Competences
(balancing and moving
o Competence
Creating
o
Competence Building
o
Competence
Deepening
o
Job Readiness Competences
Life
Competence Experiences are ideal for:
o
People of all ages seeking a
better life with others
o
Enriching community wellness
o
People seeking work
o
People seeking ‘relating
competences’
o
People seeking to start and
or run their own business
o
People seeking government
jobs
o
Youth workers
o
Women’s groups
o
Men’s groups
LIFE COMPETENCES
Prerequisites:
There are no
prerequisites
SHORT EXPERIENCES
o
Life
Competences
o
Living
Well
o
Cultural
Healing Artistry
o
Changing
Through Moving
LIFE SKILLS
o
Gaining and maintaining good contact with
others - rapport building
o Gathering
information, monitoring and precision questioning.
o
Attending & Awareness
(creative use of external and internal focus)
o
Accurate cues reading
o
Listening and remembering
o
Talking skills (map and
territory)
o
Using Language (metamodel)
o
Non verbal communicating
o
Assessing the other’s internal states,
strategic and sorting patterns and external relationships
o
Ways of
engaging in group contexts
Living well with:
o
Our selves:
o
Our bodies
o
Our moving
o
Our emotions
o
Our memories
o
Others
o
Our Futures
o Stress
o Risk:
o
Risk sharing
o
Minimising the consequences of risk
Minimising
stress in our lives
Ecology
and social ecology
Having
arousal flexibility (from very relaxed to fully alert depending on context)
Sleeping
well and waking refreshed
Relational
Mediating and Resolving Disputes
Conversationally
transforming to wellness
Mutual-help
action for wellbeing
CULTURAL
HEALING ARTISTRY
Using
all form of artistry for being well, including:
o
Music, rhythm, drumming, percussion and body percussion
o
Dance and movement
o
Drama, spontaneous drama, theatre
o
Play and games
o
Hypothetical Realplay
o
Clowning & circus
o
Aromas
o
Breath work, voice work, singing,
chanting, toning, humming, vocalising, spontaneous choir, and chanting
o
Adventure challenges
o
Sculpture, carving, visual arts,
moulding , weaving
o
Creative writing, literature,
poetry
o
Drawing, painting
o
Group dynamics
o
Story-telling & Healing
Storytelling
CHANGING
THROUGH MOVING
o
Awareness of Awareness
o
Awareness through movement
o
Moving Well
o
Moving for increased flexibility
o
Regaining balance, poise and fluidity
o
Increasing gracefully movement
o
Moving to become deeply relaxed
o
Moving for preparing to go to sleep
o
Moving to release tension and emotional pain
o
Moving to let go of painful experience
o
Moving to let go of anger
WORK COMPETENCES
o
Being healthy and safe
around work sites
o
Working well with others
o
Listening, remembering and
following directions accurately
o
Materials estimating
o
Care and maintenance of
small equipment
o
Using Excel Spreadsheets for
Project Rollout
o
Using equipment in small
livelihood projects
o
Welding
o
Chain Saws
o
Smaller earth moving
equipment
o
Etc.
WELLNESS AND RELATIONAL MEDIATION
Experiences are ideal
for:
o
Dispute reconcilers and
relational mediators
o
Wellness Healers
Prerequisites:
Better to have the
above Life Competences or suitable life experience.
WELLNESS ENABLER COMPETENCES
Experiences prepare
people to help themselves and others in evolving healing wellbeing ways
Prerequisites:
Better to have the
above Life Competences or suitable life experience.
Participants experience ways supporting healthy communities to be
more able (enabling):
o Mapping
community capacity (local experience, local knowing, wisdom, psycho-social
resources, healing ways, and resilience)
o
Identifying natural nurturers & evolving
healer networks
o
Place-making, context-marking and
framing
o
Social
networking
o Self
help groups
o Mutual-Help
Processes
Participants experience ways supporting healthy communities to be
more able (enabling):
o
Evolving meeting
spaces ,localities, and celebratory gatherings
o
Resilience in
its many forms
o
Relational
Mediation (also refer experiences on
relational mediation)
o Finding
and tapping into people who are self-starters with free energy
o Rapport
building
o Back
to the basics on:
o Awareness
of awareness
o Listening
o Attending
o Staying
present
Participants experience ways supporting healthy communities to be
more able (enabling):
o Gathering
information, monitoring and precision questioning.
o Accurate
cue reading.
o Assessing
internal states, strategic and sorting patterns and external relationships.
o Establishing
well-formed outcomes
o Establishing
and maintaining values guided good moods in groups
o Processes
for event enablers – small and large group process skills.
THE
WELLNESS SERIES
The
following Five Sets of Experiences form an integrated set of experiential cooperative
learning
Participants gain experience
in the following:
1.
Establishing and maintaining
resourceful habits
2.
Maintaining good moods
3.
Being safe
4.
Remaining unharmed in the context
of safety/danger and gain/loss
5.
Dramatic pattern-interrupt -
interrupting/preventing anger and violence and other dysfunction
Participants
gain experience in easy to use ways of resolving:
o Burnout (anti-burnout strategies)
o Racing thoughts
o Constant Tension
o High
Arousal
o Stopping
bad feelings and sensations- regaining integrity
o Altering
emotional states towards having emotional flexibility and choice
o Altering
energy states - processes allowing people to readily enter and leave any energy
state at will
o Exploring
how we use our senses in recalling past good and aversive times - sensory
change-work
Participants
gain experience in easy to use ways of resolving:
o Massive
body tension
o Mood
Swings
o Energy
swings – hyper energy to exhaustion
o Racing
thoughts
o Uncontrollable
flashbacks
o Fear of the dark
o Frequent need to urinate
o Bedwetting
o Breathing
difficulties interrupting sleeping
o Difficulty
in getting to sleep & staying asleep
o Disturbed
sleep
o Continual
sleeping
o Night panic attacks
o Nightmares
o Tired, exhausted but wide awake
o Waking early in the morning
Participants gain experience
in the following:
o Negotiating
being okay about feeling okay
o Mediating
Metaphor - storytelling for changing beliefs, behaviours and emotion/feeling
states
o Caring
and sharing - home, street and rural mediation change-work (mediation skills
are extended in the Relational Mediation Course)
o Self-Mediating - the friendly voice
o Creating healing futures
Participants gain experience in easy to use ways of resolving:
o Letting
go 'disaster zone' mentality - feeling safe again
o Dysfunctional behaviours – e.g. engaging in Acting-out Behaviours
o Dysfunctional Beliefs, e.g. children may believe that they must
have done something really bad to deserve such punishment
o Family issues
o Massive body tension
Participants
gain experience in easy to use ways of resolving:
o Issues of sexual identity
o Issues relating to ethnic self esteem
o Physical, emotional and psycho-social pain resulting from episodes
of harm
o Potential fragmentation of already fragile value and normative
frameworks
o Profound confusion, meaninglessness, normlessness and anomie
o The inability to control or understand any of the decisions being
made, or events unfolding
Participants gain experience in the Wellness
Healer Role:
o The
Helping Role
o Engaging
within limits of competence
o Values
and ethics
o Safety
of Self and Others
Participants gain experience in easy to
use ways of resolving:
o The effects of psycho-social, physical and sexual abuse - feeling
safe again
o women and young female
issues
o Moving beyond dysfunctional habitual behaviour that has emerged
from the best responses we could come up with under extreme duress
o Troubling past experience
o Transferring and projecting: clearing misunderstanding transferred
from the past, and projected on to the other side
o Using all of the Wellness Skills:
o
With Children
o
With Adolescents
o
With Adults
o
With people at risk
RELATIONAL
MEDIATING
Prerequisites:
Better to have the
above Life Competences or suitable life experience.
Participants gain experience
in the following:
o Establishing
well-formed outcomes in mediation and problem solving.
o Home
and Street mediation.
RELATIONAL MEDIATING 01
Participants
experience mediation issue resolving skills including:
o The
Role of the Mediator
o The
Helping Role
o Engaging
within limits of competence
o Values
and ethics
o Safety
of Self and Others
o Mediator
ethics and values
o Rapport
– gaining, strengthening, sustaining & if appropriate breaking.
o Gathering
Information, monitoring and precision questioning.
o Accurate
cue reading; the disputants and their body language.
o Assessing
people’s:
a. Internal
states,
b. Strategic
and sorting patterns
c. External
relationships.
o Establishing
well-formed outcomes in mediation and problem solving.
o Home
and Street mediation
o
Language skills –
general/specific mobility. Conversational change.
o
Re-evaluating relationships
– mediating to balance common ground, group mediation, community monitoring
RELATIONAL MEDIATING 02
Participants
experience mediation issue resolving skills including:
o Few
or one trial relearning
o Changing
personal history
o Evolving
good habits
o Dramatic
pattern-interrupt.
o Altering
perspectives on previous painful memories or angry attitudes.
o Separating
memories from bad or violent feelings.
o Resourceful
habits and good moods
o Future-programming
RELATIONAL MEDIATING 03
Participants
experience mediation issue resolving skills including:
o Finding
constructive meanings
o Resolving
internal and external conflicts,
o Seeing
trouble in a better light.
o Storytelling,
performance and pictures as parables for healthy tolerance and cooperative
living.
o Changing
limiting beliefs and attitudes.
o Eliminating
bad or rigid habits.
RELATIONAL MEDIATING 04
Participants
experience mediation issue resolving skills including:
o Letting
go of unhealthy dependence
o Letting
go of dysfunctional jealousy.
o Responding
well to criticism and argument – self mediation skills
o Developing
ethnic and cultural self-esteem
o Resolving
shame and guilt.
o Time
attention and location – for constructive use of time, and organising actions
o Weaving
all of the above skills together as fitting the changing contexts
o
Using all of the
Relational Mediation Skills:
o
With Children
o
With Adolescents
o
With Adults
o
With people in dispute and
conflict
o
With people at risk
NOTE
These and other
experiences have been shown to be very effective in rapid release of problems
of low self-esteem, jealousy, alcoholism and drug addiction, misunderstanding,
anxiety, grief and depression, argumentativeness, abusive behaviour, public disturbance
and other problems. They are very useful for those coping with disputes in
family and community relationships.
It is considered that
a monitor or intake ‘counsellor ‘may need 45 hours instruction and field
experience, a ‘mediator’ 90 hours and a ‘senior mediator’ 180 hours. A ‘master
mediator’ may need about 360 hours.
EXPERIENTIAL FACILITATOR TRAINER TRAINING
Upon
completing some of the Life Competencies experiences some may want to have
preparatory experiences in becoming an Experiential
Facilitator.
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