ABSTRACT
Finally, we come to the core process of learning from experience, that of making sense of as much as possible of what we have seen, heard, felt and so on. If the experience is at all complex, to arrive at this phase we have, probably, (i) had our expectations challenged, and (ii) our emotions roused sufficiently to spend time and energy in exploring the experience, (iii) taken whatever opportunities we have to dig into it, (iv) applied our own, unique learning orientation to approach it, (v) checked out our own observations, together with (vi) those of fellow participants, and (vii) informed non-participants, perhaps consulted (viii) any source of formal knowledge that seemed applicable, and (ix) our own experience – all this to prepare ourselves for the crucial process of reflecting on the experience with a view to learning whatever lessons it has to offer.
