Experiential training has evolved to challenge these assumptions, and provide more effective means for people to continue to learn and develop throughout life. We all learn from experience. Every day we undergo experiences, which teach us a lot. Education has even been defined as changes in behaviour caused by experience. Some things simply cannot be learned from books or lectures.
Examples range from riding a bicycle to falling in love.
So experiential learning is a natural and constant life process on which all development training, particularly Management Development Outdoors aims to capitalize. A number of important things need to be remembered about this cycle. The cycle is continuously recurring. We constantly test the implications of what we have learned and modify our concepts as a consequence of what we see happening in each new situation. Much of the learning is indeed relearning, especially on a Management Development programme, but this is still important and valuable, if only by brining old learning back into focus to confirm the reasons behind good habits and challenge those behind bad or outdated behaviour.