At the end of each day we spend some time learning more about each other, through a simple yet demanding exercise called ‘PechaKucha’. Each person is asked to assemble a range of 20 images and then talk about each image for 20 seconds; the PowerPoint slide show is set up to work through each image every 20 seconds. It is quite a difficult exercise as those of us who presented on the first night soon found out!
It has been an excellent way to find out more about each person and certainly thrown everyone in at the deep end in terms of being open, honest and to an extent 'themselves' from the start. That is not to say that people are intentionally guarded in the early stages of new courses, but human nature kicks in when you are outside your comfort zone.
So after a pretty introductory first day and a bit of ice breaking, we all went into day two wondering what sort of shape the course would take. Now we have been through the course criteria and have a better understanding of the modules, we have all started to consider how we best learn from the content and the experience. It is typical course framework, with fundamental parts, but how we utilise the skills we learn from each module and apply that learning is very much an individual choice.
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