How to Strengthen Your Experiential Learning

Your skill and knowledge increase with reflective writing and learning

What comes to mind when you think of learning something new? Does it mean taking up a hobby, earning an academic qualification, training in a sport, or trying a different career?

What happens when we learn?

Learning is about growing in knowledge and improving our understanding.

Learning allows us to develop new skills or refine those we already have.

Learning also encourages a change. A change could be in our attitudes, our values, and how we perceive the world around us.

The learning model I want to describe is a never-ending cycle of our experiences, or sequences of how we translate our reflective processes into concepts. By internalizing these reflections, we can use them as guides for our active experimentation.

This is how we can embrace new learning experiences for ourselves.

Recently, I discovered I was living and learning through this never-ending cycle, without being fully aware of the labels.

Preparing to reduce the packing and declutter the house, I sit in the study and open drawers and folders.

So much I don’t remember, but I kept it safe. As I reminisce, recall, and shred papers, I browse the contents to be sure I no longer need to keep it.

I balance an elderly, tapestry and leather briefcase on my lap and slide the locks. The lid springs upward on brass hinges. The document pocket in the cover leans toward me, weighed down by the volume of paper tucked inside it. The pen pockets are empty except for a solitary fountain pen, staining the plush interior with violet-colored ink. I find the case scattered with journals, colored pages of typewritten notes, clusters of crooked pages clipped together, an assortment of laminated bookmarks, guest cards to the Golden Wings lounge of a now defunct airline, and a folder of speeches drafted as ideas for Toastmasters’ assignments.

I see the edge of a plastic sleeve padded with typed sheets. Curiously, I pick it up and flick through…

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