Experience Of Experiential Learning

The capacity of learning from experience whilst being highly suspicions of what we have learnt is paramount to achieve high levels of performance in our lives both as professionals or as mere individuals of a global society.

Being reflective and reflexive of what we are and what we need to be, is the result of a continuous and evolutionary process only possible to be achieved through experiential learning underpinned by a genuine practice of reflection on our own experiences. Trying to improve and change everything we feel not to be appropriate for the host of situations have to face throughout our lives it is the first and most important step for us as individuals of a global society to adapt.

The MBA experience was indeed, a clear example of how that process

I would have to care for their opinions and stop trying to lead them. But that was only one answer to my problems.

Since that moment I started having a healthier relationship with most of my colleagues. I found myself leading groups tough in a different way, not being an assumed leader but instead being the one directing things not simply through my own ideas but through the use of others’ ideas.

This shows that we must learn from the experiences that we are put through. This so-called experiential learning process, cannot, however, be achieved in one go but rather through a process of reflection, of trial and go improving in each step of the way until the moment we get the so desired results.

But the big question is: Once we acquire information is that invaluable learning an everlasting knowledge? The answer is no. What we have learnt to be appropriate today it may not be suitable for tomorrow’s reality. The world changes and people change as well. The one thing we can never take for granted is knowledge, and ever more importantly there are no magic formulas fitting every situation. “There is no, if this, then that, everywhere and forever” (Leney,