I work with a mix of various methods in helping you find your future dreams or career, including:
Experiential Education:
Experiential education is the process of learning through experience, and is more specifically defined as “learning through reflection on doing”. I will bring you situations designed to allow you to have a directed experience about various topics in a physically and emotionally safe environment.
My first strong encounter with Experiential Education and Outdoor Training methods was through Outward Bound Romania in 2005, which encounter inspired me and a hadful of collegues (and friends) to start Academy of Experience (Élményakadémia), a non-profit training organization using these and other methods to help underpriviladged youth in starting out better equipped in their lives.
Outdoor and Adventure Training:
I am strong believer in the power of Nature to bring us closer to where we are meant to be. We have been a part of Nature for most of the 3 million years of human history, with the first settlements appearing only about 10000 years ago, it is no wonder we still tend to function best outdoors.
I therefore use the outdoor setting as well as outdoor training methods to reach some of the goals. These methods will involve physical movement (like climbing on a rope; holding or lifting things; etc.), where movement is a tool and not a sport, and there is absolutely no required fitness level. A set of comfortable clothes do help, though!
Shinrin-yoku (Nature Bathing):
Go to a Forest. Walk slowly. Breathe. Open all your senses. Shinrin-yoku is a term that means “taking in the forest atmosphere” or “forest bathing.” It was developed in Japan during the 1980s and has become a cornerstone of preventive health care and healing in Japanese medicine. (www.shinrin-yoku.org)
Facilitated Learning:
I am also a strong believer of returning to the comfort of a shelter to process what happened outdoors. I therefore also use the coziness of an indoor room (warm in winter, cool in summer) to reach some of the other goals of the training.
Reflection is a crucial part of the experiential learning process. Through facilitation I will ask questions to contemplate on, guiding reflective conversation after an experience, which can help open a gateway to powerful new thinking, learning and peer-coaching.
Council:
Council offers a way of communicating that encourages attentive listening, as well as honest and compassionate expression. It makes room for new insights and understandings, wisdom in decision making, and healing. It is an ancient way and modern practice whose roots are within the natural world, spanning diverse cultures and religions. (waysofcouncil.net)
Artistic methods:
Some insight can be better found and expressed through non-verbal methods that bring out feelings and instinctive knowledge better. I will therefore use this power of the imagination a few times in the course of the the 9 days. We will definately not enter any therapeutic levels, but we will use the power of art spurring from within to inspire our journey.
Solution Focused Group Coaching:
Solution Focused Group Coaching is an approach to coaching which focuses on helping a group of participants find solutions rather than problems, building on strengths rather than weaknesses and finding positive ways forward rather than examining barriers. It is a group method where participants work individually within the group on their own, personal questions. (solutionfocused.net)