ABSTRACT
Experiential learning has been defined elsewhere by one of the Coping with Crisis Research and Training Group (Murgatroyd 1982) as having four main components: 1 the learner is aware of the processes which are taking place, and which
are enabling learning to occur; 2 the learner is involved in a reflective experience which enables the
person to relate current learning to past, present and future, even if these time relationships are felt rather than thought;
3 personally significant experience and content: what is being learned and how it is being learned hold a special importance for that person;
4 there is an involvement of the whole self - body, thoughts, feelings and actions, not just of the mind; in other words, the learner is engaged as a whole person.
