Wellness Calendar: Thursday 23 October

Humanist learning theory
Humanist learning theory sees people being driven by a need to belong, to have control over their lives and to fulfil their potential.
This ethos on learning is quite simply to encourage participants to experience the sessions, otherwise known as experiential learning. This is where learners put down their pen and notebook and merely absorb information through their senses, and then later process it, reflect on it, and – finally, hopefully – make sense of it.
With our amazing brains we can easily multi-task. We can be listening to what someone is saying whilst also making a mental note of how other people are responding to what’s being said, and at the same time we can be coming up with our own thoughts as well as needing to scratch our arm and drink some water. And then, before we know it, following a pause, we’re talking and making an observation, and then we’re gauging other people’s responses to it. And on and on it goes: limitless information, should we be open to receiving it.