5.2. The five instruments to achieve the basic conditions

5.2. The five instruments to achieve the basic conditions EMPOWERMENT

● Offer fun and successfulexperience ● Create a positive climate and a mutually encouraging atmosphere ● Give plentyof positive feedback(focusing more on the task performed by the person) ● Have an eye for thought processes ● Please be cautious with negative feedback ● Be careful with: feedback that becomes too heavy, not daring to give necessary negative feedback, praise junkies, insecurity among participants as a result of the lack of negative feedback

MODEL-LEARNING

● Allows imitation as a start or restart ● Give examples when presenting the exercises ● Join in, all repeat the example together ● Encourage the group to take examples and make them their own ● Set a good example ● Be careful with: too few or too many examples, too perfect or enthusiasticexamples, too much emphasis on imitation or just disapproval of imitation

INSIGHT (UNDERSTANDING)

● Offer rationale: what, why and how do we learn? ● Explain the assignments sufficiently ● Foster interim discussions: Provide insight into the activity, what was learnt and your own learning process ● Provide explanations and interpretation + analysable problems and inspiring material ● Create an atmosphere in which the group can easily ask questions ● Be careful with: too little or just too much explanation

STRUCTURE

● Start with achievable, enjoyable assignments for everyone ● Gradually build up to challenging assignments ● Keep in touch with the group's experience through interim discussions ● Make sure your structure not only installs security but also the necessary freedom so that participants can take control of their own learning ● Be careful with: firmly stick to the prepared structure: agood structure allows for adjustments and improvisation

VARIATION

● Offer several leads ● Vary with types of information ● Vary with ways to process information, experience and expression ● Vary with aesthetic frames of reference ● Create an atmosphere in which participants can and want to learn from each other ● Be careful with: variation is not an objective, nor a menu where someone can always choose the familiar

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