The experiential training process

To make experiential training courses effective the learning wheel is used. This is a cyclic process of setting goals, followed by thinking, planning, experimenting and decision making, followed by action, followed by observing, reflecting & reviewing, followed by a bit more thinking, decision making and sometimes adjusting goals, followed by more action and so on. What makes experiential training so special?

Simply that the approach to experiential training courses utilise participants own experience and their own reflection about that experience, rather than lecture and theory as the means of generating understanding and transferring skills and knowledge.