Encompassing Embodiment in Entrepreneurial Learning

Aikaterini-Panagiota Voudda and Alexandros Kakouris

Business & Entrepreneurship Journal, 2023, vol. 12, issue 2, 3

Abstract: The present conceptual article discusses non-cognitive aspects of entrepreneurial learning. Entrepreneurs are known to undergo extreme experience phases during establishing their firms where peak experience, peak performance and flow counteract. As a result, increasing anxiety and stress may hamper their performance. Non-cognitive skills that consider simultaneously mental processes, emotions and spirit in connection with the human neurophysiological system in a holistic, human learning process, could appear more efficient in describing how entrepreneurial learning occurs in stressful situations. In the present discussion somatic learning education is suggested as a possibility to enhance entrepreneurial learning, creativity and performance in stressful situations. As non-cognitive entrepreneurial skills have been overlooked in the extant literature, the present discussion initiates a discussion for further research in the field. The concepts of holistic entrepreneurial learning, embodiment and somatic learning are described while their relevance to stressful business start-upping and entrepreneurial well-being is sought. The article concludes with relevant research questions for further examination. Â

Keywords: Entrepreneurial education; Embodiment; Somatics; Peak performance; Peak experience; Flow; Well-being; Stress regulation; Innovation; Creativity. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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