DAD - A-ha! Activities

Guest faculty
Prof. Annette Gisevius

Why participate

As team leaders, educators, and facilitators, it can be hard to break through the many demands on our audiences’ attention to engage them meaningfully around sensitive topics. This is especially true when working with groups with a wide array of interests and backgrounds.

Jolts are small yet powerful, unexpected, and often delightful learning experiences that, when used strategically, can help you do this. By engaging audiences in highly engaging ways, these highly flexible, resource-friendly activities are a gateway to deeper learning and development. They can spark new insights and motivate stakeholders to want to learn more. 

In the context of appreciating differences, use them to broach topics around diversity, intercultural and cross-cultural communication, perspective-taking, recognizing and managing bias, influencing team / group dynamics, adapting behaviors, and more.

This course is one in which you will explore how to develop and incorporate your own “a ha!” moments: 

• Take part — hands-on — in an array of jolt learning activities,
• Review how each works, i.e. the science behind them,
• Practice how to both effectively facilitate and debrief these activities based on the desired outcomes, and
• Determine how to incorporate these non-conventional learning methods into your own facilitating, training / teaching, or team-building portfolio — whether in-person or online.

Emphasis is on activities that can be facilitated with diverse groups, i.e. varying contexts, experience-levels, topics, dynamics, and sizes.

The course is led by Professor Annette Gisevius, a master trainer who specializes in lively trainings that use everyday cultural artifacts in innovative ways to make abstract concepts tangible and engage learners in useful daily and lifelong practices.

Participant profile/requirements
This course is for you if you are — or are helping those who are —

• Seeking innovative ways of learning / experiencing to promote perspective shifting — especially around sensitive topics,
• Leading diverse teams and want to incorporate creative, highly engaging activities that support team growth and cohesion,
• Providing coaching, training, or on-the-job professional development to help groups better collaborate and communicate.

Contact us if you have questions about the suitability of this course for your circumstances.

Learning outcomes
In this course, you will learn how to help yourself:

• Better understand how short, engaging learning activities (jolts) work both pedagogically and in everyday practice,
• Appropriately select and facilitate jolts to create powerful a-ha! moments to inspire reflection and discussion and motivate additional learning,
• Adapt these activities to suit different contexts, topics, group dynamics, group sizes, etc.,
• Facilitate effective debriefings that maximize learning and help achieve desired outcomes.

Upon successful completion of the program, you will receive a Certificate of Participation listing 6 contact learning hours.

For course additional details see the Institute for Developing Across Differences website.

Help yourself and those you work with:

• Discover the power of short, engaging experiential learning activities (jolts) 
• Select and facilitate jolts to inspire ‘a ha!’ insights
• Adapt activities for diverse contexts, topics, dynamics, etc.
• Facilitate effective debriefings for learning that sticks

€ 615
 

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