"Tell me and I will forget, show me and I may remember, involve me and I will understand" (Confucius)

I had a great meeting this week with Paul Capper from Mobius Development, which has been running a range of courses for Princes Trust and others for over 12 years. Paul’s knowledge and experience are hugely impressive, and it was inspiring to hear how he incorporates NLP techniques into the personal development that Mobius offers. Paul was very generous with his time, and I hope to have the chance to work with and learn from him.

The meeting reinforced my belief in the value of experiential learning, and the designing the training process so that participants can learn effectively, whatever their preferred learning style is (Activist, Reflector, Theorist or Pragmatist). In practice, of course, we all learn from different parts of the process (doing, evaluating, theorising and testing), and designing these steps into each of our activities is what differentiates personal development courses from activity holidays. Each has their place, and hopefully what we do will help participants to discover the fun and get involved in a wider range of activities.

I’ve been interested to read on Mobius and several other websites about research showing that Experiential Learning is 13 times more effective than traditional classroom-based activities. I’d be interested to hear if anyone knows the original source of this research?

David