Building Robust Learning Together · A Collective Session

​How does the cult of performance affect our learning organizations?

​In our previous session, we explored this question together and made several observations:

• ​time constraints often prevent deep learning

• ​a strong focus on retention, compliance, evaluation and testing can impact the quality of learning

• ​dominant learning cultures tend to foster competition rather than collaboration

​Then, we challenged our learning cultures through the lens of robustness, and envisioned an “ideal” robust learning system: one that’s collaborative, that leaves space for reflection and experimentation, that teaches learners how to sit with different opinions and where they can learn how to learn.

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​But when envisioning such a learning system, many questions arise:

• ​How do we create the conditions to change our learning cultures? And how can we work on this with clients who are performance-oriented?

• ​How do we choose in which contexts performance remains necessary and in which contexts we can create room for robustness?

• ​How do we adjust our posture as trainers and pedagogical managers, when we might ourselves have been conditioned by performance-oriented learning experiences?

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​In this second session, we will work through these questions together.

​The objective: to identify actionable steps we can take in order to create more robust learning experiences.

Note: Olivier Hamant won't be there this time.