Exformative Learning with Cooperative Storytelling
Exformative Learning with Cooperative Storytelling
MAY 4, 2021 from 03h30 to 10h30 EDT (09h30 to 16h30 CET)
Exformation is where students learn without being informed. As a teaching device, exformation was first used by the Japanese designer Kenya Hara, and then further developed by your facilitator and educationalist, Francis Laleman.
In this workshop, Francis joins storyteller and visual learning advocate, Charles-Louis de Maere, for a cooperative adventure – where a group of participants, of whatever size, starts with personal objects as metaphors for individual memories and stories, and ends up in a collectivised frenzy of merrily unexpected mutual learning and bonding.
This technique has been shown to be useful in the context of education, learning, and organizational & community development. The workshop contains plenty of testimonials and examples of how this can be done, readying the participants for immediate application in their own professional context.
This one-day workshop is in two parts. In the first round, participants are actively engaged in co-creating a joint narrative. In the second round, the group creates a superstructure in which different narratives are embedded – one of which is focused on the learning outcome of the activity itself.
Francis Laleman
Originally a traveller and a teacher of Sanskrit and Buddhism. A husband, father, painter, photographer, gardener, storyteller, writer, train-the-trainer, workshop facilitator. An unconventional educationalist, working a/o with outsider art (art brut), forum theatre, conceptual art, and other forms of art-based learning. A designer of learner experiences. Francis builds communities, inspired by the Agile Movement and uses Scrum in education. He is the author of Resourceful Exformation, (a book on learner experience design and facilitation).
Charles-Louis de Maere
Bringing people together is something that lives on through my workshops and training. Whether they take place online or on-premise, I facilitate workshops and learning experiences that focus on high participation, on learning by doing and verifying that the concepts are integrated. I use Live Online Learning Activities to ensure people get a chance to practice their understanding of the new concepts.
What better way is there to give meaning to what we say than to draw to make our thoughts explicit? When we add visual information to what we’re saying, suddenly our intention becomes much more precise, and we can begin to work on shared understanding. This is why I love bringing people in contact with the power of Visual Thinking, of getting back to our roots and using pen and paper to bring people closer together.
