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Don’t Tell Me, Show Me! Helping Clients Thrive with Experiential Learning

Don’t Tell Me, Show Me! Helping Clients Thrive with Experiential Learning. Jim Knickerbocker, PhD, PCC Intrepid Growth, LLC. jim@intrepidgrowth.com 831-272-4546. Objectives. Understand how experiential learning complements traditional coaching approaches

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Don’t Tell Me, Show Me! Helping Clients Thrive with Experiential Learning

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  1. Don’t Tell Me, Show Me! Helping Clients Thrive with Experiential Learning Jim Knickerbocker, PhD, PCC Intrepid Growth, LLC jim@intrepidgrowth.com 831-272-4546

  2. Objectives • Understand how experiential learning complements traditional coaching approaches • Learn some experiential activities that can enhance a coaching session • Plan incorporating experiential activities into coaching practices

  3. WORKSHOP FLOW

  4. About experiential learning

  5. Why experiential learning? “Tell me and I'll forget. Show me and I may not remember. Involve me and I'll understand.” ~ attributed to both Native American & Chinese sources

  6. WANTED For resisting learning from others

  7. Experiential Learning & Coaching Use of Experiential Learning via Coaching may help clients: • Understand and remember at a deeper level • Build client’s capacity for self-observation and self-correction • Who prefer non-auditory learning styles (kinesthetic, visual) • Who are intellectually or emotionally well defended against learning from others (e.g., smart people, wounded people)

  8. What is an experiential learning exercise? Harvest learning & Make linkage to life Must make choices Provides context Because participants have free will, you can’t guarantee what will happen

  9. Stop talking – start doing!

  10. Your turn!

  11. How do you get to Carnegie hall? Practice, Practice, Practice! • Get into groups of 3 people • Take turns rotating through these roles: Coach – Helper/Observer – Client • Follow provided instructions, take turns leading experiential activities from the coach’s perspective Talk, Talk, Talk! Discuss questions in small group, taking notes for large group report out: • What was your experience of this activity? • What are the opportunities to use experiential activities with your clients? • What are the possible barriers or challenges?

  12. Harvest learning & connect to life

  13. Roll your own To create your own experiential activities for your clients: • Identify the desired outcomes or learning • Recall how you (or others) learned this experientially • Consider what people, places, situations or things might create the conditions for this experience?

  14. THANK YOU! • I want to hear your feedback • Today’s slides will be available on the GCA website • Want info on an Experiential Activity Kit for Coaches?

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