 | In our YTAP program, we work with children to enable them to be open up to new learning experiences. We find that it is a foundation for many different things and on first look it might seem awfully simple. But if you dig a bit deeper, you will slowly understand both the beauty and complexity of it. |
It might seem that openness to new learning is all about trying new and a variety of stuff. Yes, it is the first step to it but not the whole of it. You can have a variety of experiences and still not really learn from it, still keep it away at an arm's length, quickly judge it for being good and bad.
True openness to learning is about taking in the new experience and using it to form new thoughts, ideas, opinions.
True openness means being open to new and wonderful insights that you gain from experiencing something.
It enables you to reflect, to think, to explore more.
It can enable you to get curious and to dive deep into a new found world of learning.
True openness is not about blindly walking through or surviving the experience, it is about bringing your whole self to it and being wide awake through the pain and the misery and the discomfort that it might bring in it's wake.
Openness requires you to step out of the comfort carpet that you lay out for yourself and challenge yourself to seek the new and different from various sources. The carpet might be big for some and a mat for others. What you want to take from the world is a choice you need to make.
There is also this mindset shift associated to what is really a new experience?Looking at each new day as a new experience is a perspective we can all add to our lives and see the change it brings along with it.
Being open to new learning experience is a practice we need to do each day. At Sparkling Mindz, we have this opportunity to not onlyexperience it everyday, but also create those opportunities for the children around us. It is both a privilege and a responsibility that all of us carry.
So let's step back and share: How open are you to new learning experiences? How do you reflect and take in the new experiences that surround you?
True openness to learning is about taking in the new experience and using it to form new thoughts, ideas, opinions.
True openness means being open to new and wonderful insights that you gain from experiencing something.
It enables you to reflect, to think, to explore more.
It can enable you to get curious and to dive deep into a new found world of learning.
True openness is not about blindly walking through or surviving the experience, it is about bringing your whole self to it and being wide awake through the pain and the misery and the discomfort that it might bring in it's wake.
Openness requires you to step out of the comfort carpet that you lay out for yourself and challenge yourself to seek the new and different from various sources. The carpet might be big for some and a mat for others. What you want to take from the world is a choice you need to make.
There is also this mindset shift associated to what is really a new experience?Looking at each new day as a new experience is a perspective we can all add to our lives and see the change it brings along with it.
Being open to new learning experience is a practice we need to do each day. At Sparkling Mindz, we have this opportunity to not onlyexperience it everyday, but also create those opportunities for the children around us. It is both a privilege and a responsibility that all of us carry.
So let's step back and share: How open are you to new learning experiences? How do you reflect and take in the new experiences that surround you?
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