The GRLI team and several of our partners participated in EFMD’s 2015 Annual Conference themed Impact, Passion and Creativity in Learning from 7 to 9 June in Brussels. Over 500 representatives from educational institutions, companies, various associations and EFMD members from across the globe engaged in integrative thinking and discussions about captivating topics such as: neuroscience, the relevance of research, executive education, whole person learning, incorporating intercultural and international dimensions into the academic curriculum and research and more.
During the Conference, Claire Maxwell — Chair of the GRLI Guardian Group and Co-Director of the Oasis School of Human Relations, presented an interactive workshop on Whole Person Learning (WPL) introduced with the maxim “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I remember, involve me and I learn”.
The interactive workshop was well attended by conference participants including Charles Handy who was one of the keynote speakers at the Conference. The WPL session provided a participative journey into bringing a Whole Person Learning approach to a University for Astronautical and Aeronautical students in China.
Whole Person Learning calls for dialogue, communication, and active participation. In that sense, learning becomes a joint venture, developing different approaches to new concerns, to working together for the good of the planet within a viable economic and fiscal framework and with a socially just and ecologically sensitive approach to the environment, to the self and to the other.
