“Welcome to our learning journey”
Being an educational practitioner, youth trainer, and facilitator didn’t help to remember the definition of learning I “learned” many years ago while studying psychology. Memory curve happens naturally, and the “correct” answer is forgotten. To define learning, I needed to take a peek at my university textbook about the psychology of learning. I could look online for some other definitions, it would be faster for soreness, but this textbook was my first encounter with the complexity of learning as a science subject. I remember a long introductory discussion on forty pages about how to formulate a learning definition with scientific, logical, and methodological status, which will respect all different psychological learning theories. And the same feelings rise again while looking for the correct answer – a mixture of confusion, discomfort, ambiguity, and curiosity. This is how many of our participants feel when we are at the beginning of the training. Then someone from the team says: “Welcome to our learning journey,” and we start.
This is instead of welcoming words, just to break the ice.