Can You Fit a Square into a Circle? Leveraging Experiential Learning to Enhance Relational Capacity Building

Nadine Binder and Jana Hollá ()
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Nadine Binder: Institute for Developing Across Differences (IDD)
Jana Hollá: Institute for Developing Across Differences (IDD)

A chapter in A Relational View on Cultural Complexity, 2023, pp 243-265 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter examines how we can leverage experiential learning methodology to further enhance the latest trends in relational capacity building, as discussed within the framework of this publication. We are approaching this subject matter from a practitioner perspective informed by our combined experiences of designing and facilitating learning interventions such as training programs. Our leadership training and development practice rests heavily on experiential learning methodology. Given its embeddedness in both cognitive and affective learning, experiential learning provides the perfect avenue to delve into relational leadership. To fully explore this potential, we present and discuss practical tools for developing relational competencies of empathy, embracing ambiguity, and holding complexity. Our exploration is guided by an evidence-based training design approach which enables us to position these tools vis-a-vis the theories and processes that inform them. Amongst others, the chapter is drawing upon intergroup theory, neuroscience, the subject-object theory of adult development, and the complex theory in addition to the traditional theories used in the intercultural and transcultural field. We thus embrace the multidisciplinary nature of transcultural competence by entering into a creative dialogue with neighbouring fields of neuroscience, developmental psychology, social and cultural anthropology as well as natural sciences; all in the spirit of true diversity.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-27454-1_13

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