Navigating the Learning Cycle: Transformative Growth for Leaders
Transformative growth for leaders
Unleash your inner potential by learning to navigate the learning cycle. This hands-on workshop guides you through a dynamic process of self-discovery and professional growth. Based on Kolb’s four-stage experiential learning model, this session will empower you to…
Communication Skills Practice
Creative Writing
Group Activity
Journalling & Reflection
Story Sharing
Workshop
Description
Unleash your inner potential by learning to navigate the learning cycle. This hands-on workshop guides you through a dynamic process of self-discovery and professional growth. Based on Kolb’s four-stage experiential learning model, this session will empower you to navigate complexity with resilience and creativity.
Dive into the experience:
- Welcome & Introductions: Create a safe space with an overview of session goals and personal intention-setting.
- Topic exploration: Understand key aspects of the four stages of Kolb’s Learning Cycle: Experience, Reflect, Conclude, and Experiment.
- Guided Writing Exercise: Use guided journaling to explore personal experiences with the learning cycle and uncover past insights to use in future opportunities.
- Reflection & Commitment: Plan your next steps towards applying your learnings in real-world scenarios.
- Optional breakout groups and peer sharing, depending on session length. Engage in meaningful discussions in small groups to explore personal insights and strategies.
Benefits
- Improved Performance: Build on increasing self-awareness to practice new strategies for continuous improvements.
- Enhanced Critical Thinking: Cultivate critical thinking, problem-solving, decision-making, and adaptability through reflective practice.
- Increased Self-Awareness: Move beyond rote learning to grasp why and how things work, linking new knowledge to the bigger picture of how you personally integrate learning.
- Enhanced Essential Skills: Refine strategies, improve decision-making, and boost problem-solving abilities.
Hosted by Caitlin McDonald
About the Host
My coaching helps people to find courage in the complicated: in a time of increasing volatility, we all need tools for surviving and thriving. Using a series of research-validated core competencies, coaching helps us become more of the selves that we want to be, more of the time. I am an Associate Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation and a trained Mental Health First Aider, which helps me point people in the right direction at the times they need it most. As a cancer survivor, I know deep in my bones how a catastrophe can transform into an opportunity to explore personal growth, uncovering hidden reserves of resilience and inner strength. I'm based in the vibrant neighbourhood of Leith in Edinburgh, whose crest featuring a ship of hope over the motto 'Persevere' has been a source of solace and solidarity for people living here since the 12th century. With a background as a technology strategist of 10+ years’ experience working with high-performing individuals and teams at globally recognised Fortune 250+ companies, national governments and intergovernmental organisations, I understand the pressures and complexities that leaders are facing in an increasingly fast-paced and fractious world. Through guided activities I offer individuals and teams the opportunity to top up resilience reserves and nourish inner courage. This empowers clients to find strength within themselves to approach every challenge with fortitude and joy. I am also an award-winning researcher for futures research and for creative industries innovation, and an artist whose work has been featured in several international art exhibitions.
Travel Locations
Willing to travel anywhere in the UK provided client reimburses travel expenses – agreed on a per-session basis at time of booking. Willing to travel anywhere in the world for longer programmes/retreats provided client reimburses travel expenses.
Certifications & Credentials
ICF ACC profile: https://www.coachingfederation.org.uk/find-coach/coach-detail/923 Oxygen indemnity insurance (certificate available on request.)
Focus Areas
Development/Coaching
Location
Edinburgh, UK
Languages
English
Corporate Experience
Moderate
Session Types Offered
Interactive (eg. improv, group-art, yoga etc.)
Past Experience Doing Sessions
Yes - Interactive
Client Requirements
Microphone and projector for sessions exceeding 25 people; pens or coloured markers and paper for participants.
Past Clients
Wiley, The Outsiders (Outdoor Office Day), Yorkshire Festival of Story
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