A Day of Lessons

Training of Trainers 2008

T.O.T.

Andrea

Wednesday was day 2 of facilitation. Nortorious and Quinn, then Cameo, Tiffany and Dave shared their mathematical and creative expertise with us.  This was also a day of lessons....

Our debriefs challenged us to take ownership of our thoughts, perspectives and feelings about the workshops: their impact, design, execution, and facilitation.  This is an on-going process: owning up to our words and expressions.  As the day moved along we were able to begin to reconcile our differences in opinion and share our impressions of a variety of quotes that drew on the critical thinking skills of us as knowledge workers.  In response to:
 
"We're drowning in information and starving for knowledge"
 
"Nothing worth knowing can be taught"
 
"True, a ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what it's meant for"
 
"The radical invents the views, when he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them"
 
"The presumption of innocence is not just a legal concept, in common sense terms it depends on the generosity of the spirit which sees the best not the worst in the stranger."
 
We heard poems, stories, doubts, lessons and advice.
 
Mixed in with the quotes was the question: Can you teach the most important lesson you have learned? As with the quotes, there was no resounding yeah or neigh in response to any one person's interpretation.  This activity closed a long day of discussion, and reflection....and prompted us for our final full day, and closing out our time together in the Georgia tree tops.

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